David Geer
David is a full-time freelance technology writer, journalist, and editor of 16-years. His articles have appeared in DevOps.com, CSOonline.com, ContainerJournal, BizTech, Desktop Engineering, ScientificAmerican, The Economist Technology Quarterly, FierceMarkets, TechTarget, PracticeLink Magazine, CyberCoders Insights, InformationWeek,Computerworld, and NetworkWorld. CIO, ITWorld.com, HGTVPro.com, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, IEEE Computer magazine, Government Security News, Laptop, Smart Computing, Technical Support, The Hosting Standard (Canada), TechWorld.com (UK), SIGnature, Processor, and the Engineering News-Record have also published his work.
He enjoys spending time with family and friends, cooking, and reading.
- Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Communications of the ACM18 articles
- Communication of the ACM4 articles
- ACM
- PracticeLink
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Turning Servers Against the Cloud12 Jun—Communications of the ACMYou expect the guardians at the gate of any system to keep attacks out; you don’t expect them to turn against internal systems and networks and ravage those on behalf of threat actors. Yet that’s what happened with cloud servers: they turned against internal systems. In March 2025, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks targeting cloud servers allowed attackers to send unauthorized, forged requests from vulnerable servers to internal systems, according to a blog post by threat...
