A German researcher at the University of Marburg has uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The flaw is a bug in Microsoft's bytecode verifier. According to Princeton University's Secure Internet Programming (SIP) unit...
The other relates to the JView Profiler, part of Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine. Dan Hubbard, senior director at Websense Security Labs, said: "Attackers are already using the JView Profiler flaw to download and install Trojan horses on victims...
Among them: compatibility with IVT and AMD-V virtualisation technology built into newer Intel and AMD processors, respectively; support for Windows Vista; and the Volume Shadow Service, which enables administrators to back up a group of virtual...
The ability to provide standardised and secure PC environments as virtual machines has appeal not only to corporate IT administrators ('no YouTube for you! Virtual appliances - 'freeze-dried' software stacks of OS, middleware and application...
With virtualisation, software runs on a virtual layer called a hypervisor rather than on the traditional foundation, a physical machine. That separation lets many operating systems be shoe-horned onto a single server for greater efficiency, and it...
As expected, Microsoft announced its new System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SVCMM) 2008, which will also be released within 30 days. The download, which will go live in 30 days, supports virtual machines running Windows or Linux.