Information leakage in the cloud

Cloud computing is all the rage these days. With its increase in popularity, it is important to explore and pay attention to security vulnerabilities and threats that may arise in this new environment. So far, only little research exists addressing these issues. In this study, we explore the possibility of attackers being able to pinpoint the location of the victim´s machine within the cloud and then mount side-channel attacks that have been shown to result in information leakage in the cloud. We implement a small cloud in a testbed and find out that the vulnerabilities still exist and our results match with previous research. We then propose our solution that we implemented to thwart the information leakage in our cloud and report its results.