After security firm CrowdStrike discovered a virtual machine security flaw that could (in theory) put millions of data centres at risk for malware attack this week, the comparisons came on hot, sticky, and thick. It was Heartbleed, all over again… but this time, even WORSE.
The Cloud might seem like a modern-day marvel, but in fact it relies on software old and new. That’s why now, more than ever, Virtual Machines are used to run legacy software and power the Cloud that we don’t think twice about.
The US Department of Homeland Security recently planted several USB drives and CD-ROMs in a government facility parking lot to see how easy it would be to spread viruses, and 60% of workers plugged the drives and CDs into their computers accidentally executing the malware inside. To avoid the same…