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/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Applying patches to software applications and hardware firmware may introduce additional risks to universities' IT environment because patches themselves are programs and may have ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Virtual machines are the containers in which guest operating systems and their applications run. In best practise, all virtual machines are isolated from one another. Virtual ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The virtual networking layer consists of the virtual network devices through which virtual machines and the Service Console interface with the rest of the network. VM Server such ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ All configuration tasks for the VM Server are performed through the Service Console, including configuring storage, controlling aspects of virtual machine behaviour, and setting ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ A virtualisation infrastructure represents an additional architectural layer which can suffer from security vulnerabilities and be the target of attacks. Generally, attacks can be ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ In view of a numerous benefits of virtualisation, virtualisation technology has recently gained popularity in the marketplace. According to Gartner, percentage of workloads ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Virtualisation is the separation of resource or request for a service from the underlying physical delivery of the service. It can dramatically improve the efficiency and ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Code injection attacks pose massive threats to the IT environment within universities. They could allow hackers to compromise universities' network, access and destroy their data ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Code injection attacks typically occur when inputs has not been adequately validated before execution. The basic principle is to provide some form of input with additional ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Code Injection is a type of exploitation caused by processing invalid data input. The concept of injection attacks is to introduce (or "inject") malicious code into a program so ...