German researcher breaks into Amazon Cloud Services

A German Internet security researcher was successful in tapping into Amazon's Cloud Computing Services to crack open WiFi passwords in a fraction of the time and for a tiny percentage of the cost of using his own equipment.

Thomas Roth used custom software running on Amazon's Elastic Compute (EC) Cloud service to break into a WPA-PSK protected network in under 21 minutes. With improvements to his software, he said he could even cut the time down to about 6 minutes.