Great name - nowadays security vulnerabilities all need to have a good marketing around them or else they are lost in all the noise!
"The vulnerability is serious because it pierces a key protection that many cloud service providers use to segregate one customer's data from another." A lot of articles about this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/extremely-serious-virtual-machine-bug-threatens-cloud-providers-everywhere/
Aside from getting lots of press, it looks like this zero day exploit hasn't been exploited yet (according to the researchers)..
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Bigger than Heartbleed, 'Venom' security vulnerability threatens most datacenters
Security researchers say the zero-day flaw affects "millions" of machines in datacenters
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Great name - nowadays security vulnerabilities all need to have a good marketing around them or else they are lost in all the noise!
"The vulnerability is serious because it pierces a key protection that many cloud service providers use to segregate one customer's data from another." A lot of articles about this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/extremely-serious-virtual-machine-bug-threatens-cloud-providers-everywhere/
Aside from getting lots of press, it looks like this zero day exploit hasn't been exploited yet (according to the researchers)..
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