Virtual Machines for Security

Posted by michael on Friday June 6, 2003 @05:23AM from the virtually-impregnable dept.

k-hell writes "Researchers from the University of Michigan are using virtual machines to 'to provide security in an operating-system-independent manner.' They have designed and implemented a replay service for virtual machines called ReVirt, which 'logs enough information to replay a long-term execution of a virtual machine instruction-by-instruction.' A system called BackTracker 'automatically identifies potential sequences of steps that occurred in an intrusion,' and they provide a nice example of BackTracker's output for an attack against a machine that they set up as a honeypot, where an attacker gained access through httpd. Here's the source code."

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Very nice.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-06 05:27 · Score: -1, Flamebait

But it's illegal...
Good things come from spending money. by Real+World+Stuff · 2003-06-06 05:28 · Score: -1, Flamebait

From the site: (Sponsors) The following organizations have provided generous funding and equipment to the CoVirt project:
National Science Foundation
Intel Corporation

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Re:The obvious comparison... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-06 05:45 · Score: -1, Flamebait

You dense fucking chode loader. MY MOTHER'S A MAN!

God, both of you are such fags.