Security News

The Rise of The Virtual Security Officer
2018-10-23 10:29

The market for virtual security officers is growing. We’ve had virtual chief information security officers for a few years (vCISOs), and we can expect to see virtual data protection officers...

VMware Patches Code Execution Flaw in Virtual Graphics Card
2018-10-17 05:04

VMware has patched a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the SVGA virtual graphics card used by its Workstation, ESXi and Fusion products. read more

Fidelis Cybersecurity announces support for Microsoft Azure’s virtual network TAP
2018-10-11 00:00

Fidelis Cybersecurity now supports Microsoft Azure’s virtual network terminal access point (TAP) to enable mirroring of virtual machine (VM) network traffic, without the use of agents, directly to...

Ixia delivers visibility into network traffic through Microsoft Azure Virtual Network TAP
2018-09-28 02:00

Keysight Technologies announced it has extended the Ixia CloudLens visibility platform to provide packet-level visibility into virtual machine network traffic through Microsoft Azure Virtual...

Barracuda announces integration with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN
2018-09-25 22:30

Barracuda Networks announced support for Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN service through its CloudGen Firewall, extending networking security to organizations looking to deploy Azure Virtual WAN....

NSA Attacks Against Virtual Private Networks
2018-09-17 11:12

A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the...

Ixia delivers visibility into all traffic in virtual workloads in private cloud environments
2018-08-15 22:10

Keysight Technologies announced Cloud Sensor vTap, a new feature of CloudLens from Ixia, a Keysight Business. Cloud Sensor vTap enables organizations to manage their security risk in private and...

Attack Bypasses AMD's Virtual Machine Encryption
2018-05-29 09:56

A group of German researchers has devised a new attack method capable of bypassing AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). read more

Researchers Defeat AMD's SEV Virtual Machine Encryption
2018-05-28 08:48

German security researchers claim to have found a new practical attack against virtual machines (VMs) protected using AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could allow...

Epyc fail? We can defeat AMD's virtual machine encryption, say boffins
2018-05-25 19:45

Evil hypervisors can lift plain-text info out of ciphered memory, it is claimed German researchers have devised a method to thwart the security mechanisms AMD's Epyc server chips use to...