A technical paper titled “Towards a Formally Verified Security Monitor for VM-based Confidential Computing” was published by researchers at IBM Research and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

One of the fundamental assumptions in virtualized computing environments is that code running in one virtual machine cannot escape its confines and directly access the host operating system and ...

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 ...

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms ...

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 ...

Cyber criminals are increasingly using virtual machines to compromise networks with ransomware. By using virtual machines as part of the process, ransomware attackers are able to conduct their ...

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they place, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday. Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the ...

If you’ve managed secure cryptographic infrastructure, you know the challenges of physical secure rooms, from the high cost of SCIF-standard facilities to the operational burdens of multi-operator ...