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 ...

Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism. When she's not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black coffee ...

Move over, Heartbleed. There's a new catastrophic vulnerability in town. A security research firm is warning that a new bug could allow a hacker to take over vast portions of a datacenter -- from ...