Last year all records for cyber threats detected were broken. They exceeded 62.6 billion, a figure that represents an increase of 20% compared to 2019. These data derive from the annual report by Trend Micro, a company specializing in cloud security.
Google and The Linux Foundation have reached an agreement to improve Linux security. The search engine will allocate funds to finance the work of two kernel developers to focus on tasks aimed at shielding the system.
Today is the European Data Protection Day. A date established by the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the Data Protection authorities of the member states of the European Union to raise awareness about the importance of privacy and user data protection. At a time when technology has become an indispensable engine to guarantee the continuity of most businesses, it is worth reflecting on the suitability of the solutions we are using to work remotely from the security perspective. Desktop virtualization has emerged as the best bet for keeping computer systems, sensitive information and user data properly shielded.
When there are only a few days left to say goodbye to this unusual year, we have compiled the Top 5 of the most read articles in our blog in 2020. As you may know, we strive to keep our readers up-to-date with the most outstanding news about virtualization in general, desktop and application virtualization in particular, Open Source technologies, and announcements, news, and case studies with UDS Enterprise, our software for VDI, vApp and remote access to physical and virtual machines.
A new side channel attack threatens Intel and AMD CPUs. It has been discovered by a group of Austrian researchers from the Graz University of Technology. They have called it PLATYPUS and it allows exploiting variations in processor power consumption to access confidential data. One of the characteristics that differentiate this attack from other similar ones is that it does not require physical access to the server, desktop or laptop.
