All Posts Tagged With: "vulnerability"
Is 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 | ContinuedLive Virtual Machine Migration Vulnerability
Anthony Liguori has a good summary of the Blackhat paper by Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke and Farnam Jahanian of the University of Michigan about Xensploit .
The idea of Xensploit is to use a Man in the Middle attack between 2 hosts performing a Live migration. The fundamental [...]
24Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued





