Attacks on cloud computing and its countermeasures

Now with advent of internet, the Cloud Computing has been revolutionized by opening new horizon at a global level with promising opportunities. Cloud Computing is the important buzzword in the today's world of Computer. Cloud is an International Collection of Hardware and Software from hundreds of thousands of private and public computer network. Cloud is global platform that permits digital information to be shared and distributed at very less cost and very fast to use. With the rise of popularity, opportunities and its public connectivity via the Internet it is the next leading edge for trojan, viruses, worms, hackers and cyber-terrorists to start probing and attacking. Viruses, worms, hackers and cyber attacks will enlarge because organized criminals, terrorist and hostile nations would see this as a new frontier to try to steal confidential information, interrupt services and route damage to the enterprise cloud computing network. This paper will discussed the different attacks like Web Security Attack, Browser Security Attack, Cloud Malware Injection Attack, Flooding Attack and their countermeasure.