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New Vulnerabilities Shake Security Complacency
By Larry Walsh
Excerpt:
“Just when you thought you could assume a certain level of protection--or insulation from threats--from perceivably attack-resistant technology, think again. New discoveries are showing that virtualization and encryption aren't immune to the ills of the Internet…
“Researchers at Core Security, a firm specializing in automated penetration testing tools, discovered a flaw in VMware's desktop virtualization applications' feature ‘shared folders.’ The feature, enabled by default, enables malicious code or hackers operating in the virtual environment to jump and compromise the host operating system and its attached network. The flaw doesn't exist in the network server or storage applications.”
Source: Baseline
