All Posts Tagged With: "Joanna Rutkowska"
0wning Xen?
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InvisibleThings.org posted some more details on their Xen Owning Trilogy session at last weeks Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Joanna Rutkowska and her crew gave a series of 3 talks discussing different potential security issues with Xen. With the
VirtSec awareness growing this obviously is an important topic .
When quickly skimming trough the presentations [...]
Invisible Things Lab: Hypervisors Mucho Hackable
Security researchers from Invisible Things Lab claim will be demonstrating how easy it is to hack hypervisors at the next Black Hat conference in Las Vegas in August. More specifically, they’ll be discussing the (in)security of the Xen hypervisor, such as how to plant rootkits, how to bypass various hypervisor anti-subverting techniques, as well as how “Bluepills” can be used in bare-metal hypervisor compromises. They plan on releasing proof-of-concept code.
8Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Virtualization The Biggest Security Vulnerability In IT Today?
Joanna Rutkowska, the founder of security research firm Invisible Things Lab, reportedly described a new type of virtualization-based malware that could be used to take control of a machine running virtualization software. Because virtualization allows companies to store many virtualized software “images” of computers on a single physical machine, an attack like the one Rutkowska envisions would allow a hacker “not only to control a single machine but to siphon data from any virtual machine it contains”.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued
