Archive for February, 2008
VMSafe is announced!
For those that have been paying attention, this announcement is not a surprise. VMWare has been partnering with AV vendors lately. Rumblings have also been released about opening things up a bit by providing API’s for vendors to tap into the hypervisor to handle security events realtime. Cool huh! Well this week at VMworld Europe, […]
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Tags: hypervisor, Security, virtualization, vmsafe, vmware
SOURCE: Boston 2008
I have been talking about this to anyone who will listen, so I may as well write about it as well. SOURCE is a conference taking place in Boston next month, and it should be full of great information and fun (if your idea of fun is talking security). There are some great speakers and […]
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All of my RSS feeds have been blowing up with the report from about a new VMWare vulnerability that allows an attacker to escape the Guest and infect the Host. Wow! That is pretty serious stuff you must be thinking. Hold on cowboy….if you read further you will see that the vector of attack is […]
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Tags: Security, shared folders, vmware, vulnerability
Do you Goolag?
I enjoy scanning through EULA’s. Most people can’t click “Agree” fast enough, but I scan through them looking for interesting tidbits. Last week I came across a good one, here is an excerpt: “If this software does something bad to your computer or network or provides information that you have no legal right to see, […]
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Tags: EULA, Goolag, Hacking, Security, vulnerability scanner
Can’t we all live in Harmony?
Today I came across fun prank you can play on your friend or family member next time you are at their house assuming they have a Harmony remote control. My parents have a Logitech Harmony 880 that I bought them a few years ago. Recently they replaced their DVD player with a Blu-Ray player and […]
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Tags: Harmony, Logitech, remote control, Security
