The threat modelling approach addresses data loss risk, hardwarefailure risk, jurisdictional risk, external hacker risk, dishonest employee risk, and employee death or disability risk.
The European sites of Amazon.com temporarily went offline Sunday because of a hardwarefailure, according to The Associated Press, not a cyber attack by WikiLeaks supporters Anonymous.
Earlier this week, Consumer Reports called the issue a hardware failure-disputing the company's prior claim that it was simply a software bug-and said it would not recommend the product for purchase.