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January 16, 2015

VMware finds new post-paranoia RAM-saving tricks • The Register
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VMware is rejigging the way it shares memory among virtual machines, after turning off Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) because academics identified insecurities in the technology.

The academic paper is entitled “Wait a minute! A fast, Cross-VM attack on AES”
https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/435.pdf

slightly different opinions
http://vsphere-land.com/news/why-the-vmware-vsphere-tps-vulnerability-is-a-big-deal.html
http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/10/20/tps-vulnerability/

Got a GE industrial Ethernet switch? Get patching • The Register
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Hard-coded RSA keys found in firmware
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