Microsoft employs bologna defense against VMware
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Raises white paper with ball of fluff In classic Redmond fashion, Microsoft has countered VMware's charges of anticompetitive practices in the server virtualization market by heaving a giant ball of fluff at reporters.â¦
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BRUSSELS -- Microsoft is working to hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc. charged in a full-page ad in yesterday's Financial Times.
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced several moves it says will help its business customers take advantage of a technology called virtualization, and in the process help the software maker catch up with VMware Inc., the frontrunner in that area.
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La prima battaglia di Microsoft contro la sentenza Antitrust Europea Ã¨ persa e senza sospensione temporanea. Dal prossimo Gennaio esce la nuova versione di XP senza il Media Player (Windows XP Reduced Media Edition).
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Last week, I spoke with VMware Vice President of Marketing Michael Mullany about VMware ACE, a fascinating solution that simplifies and secures the deployment of software environments to mobile workers, contractors, and telecommuters.
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Una migliore tecnologia anti-spyware e una protezione maggiore contro worm mass-mailing e minacce miste potenziano lâultima versione del software antivirus di McAfee. McAfee ha rilasciato la versione 2005
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The up-and-coming virtualization specialist says Microsoft is using its Windows clout to restrict customers choice. Sound familiar?
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Hoping to keep the heat on archrival Microsoft, VMware on Wednesday will give developers a glimpse of an early version of its Virtual SMP product that allows a single virtual machine to work with as many as four processors, which in turn can more effectively drive mission-critical applications.
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Microsoft  is working to  hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent  weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc.   charged in a full-page ad in Monday's Financial Times.
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The Bush administration has repeatedly defended Microsoft against charges of anticompetitive conduct, including a recent complaint by Google.
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VMware has announced a beta release of a new product dubbed VMware ACE that enables desktop IT managers to apply enterprise IT policies to virtual machines that contain data, applications and operating systems. VMware claims that ACE creates an isolated PC environment.
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Software giant battles activation of unauthorized copies of its new Vista OS.
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(InfoWorld) - A set of newly discovered flaws in components of VMware's virtual machine software has called attention to some of the security risks associated with the practice of running virtual computers on a single system. VMware has updated its products to fix the security bugs, disclosed Wednesday, but users who have not updated their software could face serious security risks thanks to a trio of flaws in the DHCPÂ server that ships with VMware. The DHCP software is used to assign IP addresses to the different virtual machines running within VMware, but IBM researchers discovered that it can be exploited to gain control of the computer. That could be very bad news for someone running a lot of applications on the same VMware box, said Tom Cross, a researcher with IBM's Internet Security Systems group. "By exploiting this vulnerability, you get complete control of any of the machines that are running on that virtual environment," he said. IBM's researchers have developed exploit code for three separate flaws in the DHCP software, all of which are now patched, Cross said. In order to attack a system, however, an attacker would first need to gain access to software running within the virtual machine. Typically VMware's DHCP server is not configured to be accessible to systems on other machines. Virtualization software is one of the hottest areas in enterprise IT these days. Enterprises are increasingly looking at this type of product as a way to cut down on datacenter costs. VMware lets a single computer act as if it is a kind of mini datacenter, running a number of separate virtual machines on the same box. These virtual machines act as if they are truly separate from one another. They can run different operating systems, and if one virtual machine crashes, it does not affect the others on the server. VMware is also extremely popular with security researchers, who set up virtual machines on their PCs to test potentially malicious code without putting their computers at risk. Unfortunately, this architecture also gives attackers a single point of failure: the VMware software itself. "This is important because servers often run a vulnerable machine in one VM and have supersecret information in another VM, isolated by VMWare," said Dave Aitel, CTO with security vendor Immunity, in an e-mail interview. "VMWare ESX has been getting massively popular among hosting environments, so this sort of bug becomes a force multiplier if you can find a remote vulnerability in a [virtual machine]." The DCHP flaws affect VMware's ACE, Player, Server, and Workstation products running on Linux and the Windows operating system, IBM said. VMware, a division of EMC, has also patched a fourth serious flaw in its software, discovered by McAfee. This one could also be used to run unauthorized code on a VMware machine, but it would be difficult for an attacker to exploit, said David Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs. "The attacker has to pass a whole bunch of parameters to the vulnerable service," he said. "You have to be engaging in some behavior inside that VMware machine to get the [exploit code] to work. So it's certainly not easy to exploit." Still, Marcus agreed with Cross that virtual machines will get more attention from security researchers in the near future. "If you have the ability to attack that virtual machine and get outside that virtual machine shell to the host OS, then you can gain control of every virtual machine that's on the box."
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VMware has patched critical flaws in its virtualization products.
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The software giant addresses three vulnerabilities within the Windows operating system.
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The vendor counters that it is working with industry standards groups to ensure VMmark is impartial and not set up to give VMware an unfair advantage.
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While security experts applaud Microsoft&#39;s recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product&#39;s introduction with dread and suspicion.