People often ask what exactly Sony Corp. (6758) did to convince hackers groups like LulzSec and Anonymous to hack the company 19 times so far. An answer may lie in cases like that of Alexander Egorenkov.
Mr. Egorenkov, a young German and associ…
graf_chokolo: You’ll Have to Kill Me to Silence Me Sony
VMware corks hypervisor security hole
ESXi, ESX, and vCenter not affected
Server and PC virtualization juggernaut VMware has issued a patch for the Workstation hypervisor that plugs a privilege-escalation hole on machines that use Linux as the host environment for the hypervisor.…
PS3 hacker graf_chokolo counters critics, talks 3.60 firmware
Compared to his PlayStation 3 jailbreaking counterpart (and fellow lawsuit recipient) George Hotz, console tinkerer Alexander Egorenkov (AKA graf_chokolo) isn’t so well known. All things considered, maybe that’s for the best.
While Hotz …
New security tools protect virtual machines
As enterprises move towards virtualizing more of their servers and data center infrastructure, the security technologies that are plentiful and commonplace in the physical world become few and far between.
While few direct attacks on virtual machines …
VMware offers cloud-based IT management for SMEs
VMware has released a cloud-based service designed to provide SMEs with a simple and cost-effective way to manage physical and virtual IT environments. VMware Go Pro allows customers to set up the VMware vSphere Hypervisor, and simplifies patch, licenc…
Security vendor demonstrates insider attack on VMware ESX
The VMware ESX hypervisor could let IT staff steal sensitive data by abusing administrative access, particularly if customers fail to implement role-based access controls, the security vendor BeyondTrust argued last week at VMworld.
IT staff with root…
