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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From a security perspective, containers are the Wild West – full of exciting possibilities, but also unfamiliar dangers. A study out of Forrester points to this mix of hopes and fears. In the report, ...

An important-rated security vulnerability in VMware Tools could pave the way for local privilege escalation (LPE) and complete takeover of virtual machines that house important corporate data, user ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Cloud Platform is now in the works to bring Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) as part of its plans to increase protection against crypto-related malware and other hacking incidents.

Phishing sites are now using JavaScript to evade detection by checking whether a visitor is browsing the site from a virtual machine or headless device. Cybersecurity firms commonly use headless ...

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 ...

So I’m wondering how security plays into the whole planning process once you take a bunch of applications that have been running on separate physical servers – most likely with separate firewalls, ...