All Posts Tagged With: "security"
Apani Pushes EpiForce VM as Virtual Appliance (Free Trial)
Apani, provider of cross-platform server isolation solutions for large enterprises, today announced that EpiForce VM is now available as a virtual appliance free trial. EpiForce VM is the industry’s first software-based solution that secures corporate networks, containing both physical and virtual machines, from a single platform.
4Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued0wning Xen … In More Detail
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Over at her
own
blog, Joanna Rutkowska from Invisible Things has some updates on their findings about Xen security as
we earlier reported.
Joanna argues that most of the attacks presented indeed require that the attacker first gains access to the Dom0 before he can launch the attacks but that doesn’t take away the [...]
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 [...]
Secerno Introduces Database Security Solution for Virtual Environments
Database security provider Secerno today announced the availability of its Secerno.SQL database activity monitoring and blocking solution as a virtualized appliance on the VMware platform.
29Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedAzure Uses Intel Virtualization Extensions To Counter Malware
Paul Royal, principal researcher at Damballa, has developed a new tool called Azure, which takes advantage of the virtualization extensions in Intel’s chips to evade the virtual machine and sandbox checks malware authors often include in their ‘work’.
22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedTripwire ConfigCheck Now VMware ESX 3.0 Compatible
Remember Tripwire ConfigCheck, the nifty free utility that rapidly assesses the security of VMware ESX hypervisor configurations compared to the VMware Infrastructure 3 Security Hardening guidelines? Well, Tripwire today announced the availability of Tripwire ConfigCheck for VMware ESX 3.0.
21Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedPhoenix To Integrate HyperSpace into NEC Notebooks
Phoenix Technologies announced that NEC will be among the first PC manufacturers to integrate Phoenix HyperSpace, a virtualized operating environment that enables instant-on applications running independently and alongside Windows.
15Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedInvisible 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 | ContinuedFortinet Patents Four New Network Virtualization And Multi-Threat Security Related Inventions
Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company four additional patents for network virtualization and security related inventions. These new patents strengthen Fortinet’s intellectual property portfolio, bringing Fortinet’s total awarded patents to 17.
20Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualLogix Hooks Up With Freescale Semiconductor To Secure Mobile Commerce
VirtualLogix today announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Freescale Semiconductor to create a trusted environment for mobile devices and other terminals that can be used in particular to ensure security of mobile commerce (m-commerce) transactions.
19Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMware Patches Security Vulnerabilities In Multiple Product Lines
Several critical security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the newest releases of VMware’s hosted product line. Relevant releases include VMware Workstation 6.0.3, VMware Player 2.0.3, VMware ACE 2.0.3, VMware Fusion 1.1.1 and earlier versions of the before-mentioned products.
1Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedAlternative Technology Adds McAfee Security Solutions and Services
Alternative Technology, an Arrow Electronics company and specialty distributor of thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, and security solutions, has announced it will distribute the full line of McAfee security software, appliances and managed security services for small to medium businesses and enterprises.
22May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
You can use DRBD to this with kvm/xen 
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this is very interesting,The software enables the consolidation by keeping the infrastructure update completely transparent to the ESX hypervisor, . 
yeah,Sourcefire is now shipping its first VMware-based virtual appliances. 
im 3 year exp in DWDM monitoring