Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Januscape: A 16-year-old Linux KVM flaw lets cloud VM tenants crash hosts and potentially escape guests. It affects Intel and AMD systems. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim has published details of a use-after-free vulnerability in Linux’s KVM hypervisor that allows code running inside a guest virtual machine to corrupt host kernel memory. The bug, tracked as […]

Chipmaker Confirms Vulnerability, Which Poses Risk to Confidential Cloud ComputingChipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is issuing fixes for a vulnerability in multiple types of processors, dubbed "RMPocalypse," that attackers could exploit to access data being transmitted to, processed or stored in confidential virtual machines provided by cloud service providers.

Three vulnerabilities in the American Megatrends MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software impact server equipment used in many cloud service and data center providers. [...]