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Re:Attacking a co-hosted VM: A hacker, a hammer and two memo... by _jal on Friday October 20, 2017 @10:04AM (#15515834)
True, but at least in the general case you control your adjacent VMs.
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Re:Attacking a co-hosted VM: A hacker, a hammer and two memo... by jarym on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:21AM (#15516470)
Exactly, its easy to get a VM on any of the major platforms and poke around to see what might be going on in the same host as you.
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Re:Attacking a co-hosted VM: A hacker, a hammer and two memo... by benevol on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:53AM (#15516732)
At least one of the big hosters even lets you have VMs for free for a couple of days (you get your money back if you cancel). That's more than enough time for an automated process to check out tons of VMs (to add to your botnet) for free.
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