Summary: Yes boys and girls, today we tell a story of clouds. The Packetpushers attack the subject of virtualization security. You'll hear Greg Ferro and Ivan Pepelnjak* wax eloquent about unicorns and an amazing Larry Ellison imitation by Tony Bourke. We're also joined by a new friend, awesome security researcher** and entrepreneur Taylor Banks, who manages to help us keep the snark level up to Packetpusher standards. Show Notes: NIST definition of the Cloud Ace Hackware (Where Mrs. Y. does all her holiday shopping.) A series of great posts by Ivan on virtualization and the cloud. (He also has some amazing webinars on the subject.) The “appliance” approach to Big Data and Private Cloud by Brad Hedlund Cloudwashing, according to Dilbert. Hypervisor Attacks: Bluepill and Cloudburst CVE-2008-4917 and CVE-2008-4916 Cross-VM Side Channels and Their Use To Extract Private Keys *Hopefully someday I'll be able to spell Ivan's name without looking it up. **Hey, I don't have to keep telling people that security researcher = hacker, right?
