VMWare Hacking at Defcon 15

Virtualization has become more and more poular over the years. Most hosting providers offer virtual servers to their customers nowadays. Also many personal computer users have started running virtual machines on their computer to work on multiple OSs at the same time. From a security perspective are all these virtual sandboxes provide 100% isolation? or can malicious code penetrate the barriers of the sandbox and affect the host machine? D.J Capelis tries to unlock some of these mysteries in his Defcon 15 presentation.

D.J. Capelis is a student and researcher at the University of California, San Diego. He does research on processor design, secure systems and dabbles in cryptography. For a "real job" he is an active member of UCSD's Data Security Team teaching computers how to tell when users are being mean. D.J. also maintains the team's virtualized testing and development environment. In his free time, he tends to show up at 2600 meetings and other food-related events where he plays with his OLPC development board and does platform-related work on Blender.

Links:

1. Virtualization Basics

2. VMWare

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net