[產業觀察] Evernote was hacked

I've already change my tool from the notepad++ or Microsoft's word to Evernote to make a quick note for several months. It's quite simple to use and the data can be synchronize to cloud and I could access my notes through network everywhere anytime. There is a news that Samsung's refrigerator built in Evernote for food management and Samsung show this device in the CES show. The story at this moment, I think Evernote make his products go into a new era. However, the morning sun never lasts a day. Evernote was hacked and the customers information were possibly stolen last week.

This news remind me again about the security and reliability of the cloud service. Evernote build his own cloud service server but the security problem is still happen. However, I do not worry about it because when everyone notice, it will be fixed in near future. But it makes me feel that it may not worth to invest on building own cloud service server on public place especially when we do not have enough security people to maintain it. I've ever attended the CSSLP class and I learned that the security question is very complicated. Maybe it is much better for us to host our cloud service on famous 3rd party provider like AWS.