Vishing
Vishing: A fraudulent practice where perpetrators use a telephone system to deceive individuals into revealing sensitive information. Often, these attackers pretend to represent legitimate organizations, using social engineering techniques to manipulate victims, gain their trust, and access their personal, financial, or security data.
Visual, Agile, and Simple Threat Modeling (VAST)
Visual, Agile, and Simple Threat Modeling (VAST): An approach to threat modeling that emphasizes simplicity, collaboration, and integration with Agile development processes. VAST promotes the visualization of threats and vulnerabilities in system design, allowing for team-wide understanding and continuous iteration of threat models alongside system development.
VM (Virtual Machine) Escapes
VM (Virtual Machine) Escapes: A security breach in which the attacker breaks out of a virtual machine and interacts directly with the host operating system. This can be a serious issue as it can give the attacker access to the host environment and other virtual machines running on the same host, potentially compromising the entire […]
VMI (Virtual Machine Introspection)
VMI (Virtual Machine Introspection): A technique used to monitor the runtime state of a system-level virtual machine. From outside the virtual machine, it inspects the machine’s operations, such as memory and disk activity, to spot any unusual or suspicious behavior. This method provides a way of maintaining a high level of security and integrity within […]
VMs (Virtual Machines)
VMs (Virtual Machines): Software-based representations of physical computers, capable of executing applications and processes like their physical counterparts. VMs operate on a physical host machine, allowing multiple virtual machines to operate simultaneously and independently, which can enhance resource efficiency, scalability, and isolation of processes, potentially enhancing overall security.
Virtual machine escape
The instance where an attacker successfully breaches a virtual machine’s confines to interact with the host system. By exploiting vulnerabilities within the virtual machine environment, attackers may breach the separation boundary, leading to the compromise of other virtual machines hosted on the same physical system.