Recently, I've heard many security officers talking about using virtual machines as a way to increase security. If your developers need local administrator rights and privileges and they can't have ...

Start-up FireEye made its debut, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to ...

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I've been at several recent conferences where virtual machine (VM) and security “experts” were telling audiences how VM technology can be used to improve computer security. Wow! They are either drunk ...

Back in September, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released a whitepaper titled "Virtual Machine Security Guidelines - Version 1.0". In it, they addressed security concerns that apply to ...

When VMware Inc. announced its Project Monterey strategy to redefine the data center last week, executives effused about the potential of the distributed processing model to redefine cybersecurity.

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Cloud computing has revolutionised the delivery of scalable and cost‐effective computational resources, yet this paradigm also introduces unique security challenges. Central to these challenges is the ...

Ragnar Locker is deploying Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim's files while evading detecting from security software installed on the host. Ragnar Locker is a relatively new ransomware ...

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