look out all you VM users

[Jason Wright]

I spoke with a gentleman who did OS identification of various co-resident operating systems. Using the same techniques described below (or greatly similar), they were able to tell which other operating systems were sharing the host. Neat stuff :)

--Jason Wright

On Nov 7, 2012, at 16:20, "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:


On Nov 7, 2012, at 16:20, "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

> 
> Not as much isolation between virtual machines as you'd think.  Turns
> out that side channel attacks are possible, at least in limited
> circumstances.
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/11/crypto-keys-stolen-from-virtual-machine/
> 
> -r
> 
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