{"id":3718,"date":"2015-05-16T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2015-06-01T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T08:52:08","slug":"venom-vulnerability-exposes-most-data-centers-to-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/venom-vulnerability-exposes-most-data-centers-to-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Venom Vulnerability Exposes Most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security glitch uncovered last year that rendered communications with many well-known web services insecure, potentially exposing millions of plain-text passwords.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t panic. Though the recent vulnerability has a more terrific name than HeartBleed, it is not going to cause as much danger as HeartBleed did.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed VENOM, stands for Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation, is a virtual machine security flaw uncovered by security firm CrowdStrike that could expose most of the data centers to malware attacks, but in theory.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the risk of Venom vulnerability is theoretical as there is no real-time exploitation seen yet, while, on the other hand, last year\u2019s HeartBleed bug was practically exploited by hackers unknown number of times, leading to the theft of critical personal information. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2015\/05\/venom-vulnerability.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security glitch uncovered last year that rendered communications with many well-known web services insecure, potentially exposing millions of plain-text passwords. But don\u2019t panic. Though the recent vulnerability has a more terrific name than HeartBleed, it is not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/venom-vulnerability-exposes-most-data-centers-to-cyber-attacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venom Vulnerability Exposes Most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-XY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}