Venom Vulnerability Exposes Most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks

Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security glitch uncovered last year that rendered communications with many well-known web services insecure, potentially exposing Millions of plain-text passwords. But...

Flaw in Virtualization Software Could Lead to VM Escapes, Data Theft

Researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in an obscure component of many virtualization platforms that they say can allow an attacker to escape from a guest virtual machine and gain code execution on the host, as well as any other VMs operating on that machine. Experts say the bug affects a wid...

Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing

Researchers from two U.S. universities have created a way to anonymously use cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks – a feat that also demonstrates how hackers might secretly harness massive computing power to launch attacks. Using the MapReduce technique developed by...

Cloud Security Needs Continuous Monitoring to Reassure Enterprises, Panel Says

SAN FRANCISCO–A panel of cloud providers and enterprise security professionals said that in order to make enterprise security teams feel more comfortable giving up their data, cloud providers need to be more transparent and open about the security measures and processes they have in place to...

Q&A: Chris Hoff on cloud computing

Chris Hoff, the former chief security architect at Unisys and the author of the consistently insightful and funny Rational Survivability blog, is among the most sought-after speakers in the security industry and an authority on cloud computing and virtualization security. In this interview, he...