Re: Server virtualization and security?

From: Russell Wood <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:25:41 -0000

On 2008-02-13, num_gg@xxxxxxxxxxx <num_gg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... securisation ..

WTF?

... If a hacker manage to take over the virtual system hosting the
"loosely secured app" is it simple (or not?) for him to take over the
other virtual systems or ,what's even worse, the whole system?

Possibly. Drop the guest, mount its file system and make modifications
then bring the guest back up.

--
Russell Wood
<http://www.dynode.net/~rjw/>
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