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Venom Less Toxic Than Heartbleed

2015-05-20 19:16:36| TechNewsWorld

It was a little over a year ago that the Heartbleed bug shocked the Internet with its potential for mischief. Now another flaw in open source code has sent network administrators into damage control mode. The bug, called "Venom" for "Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation," allows an intruder to jump out of a virtual machine and execute malicious code on its host.

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Venom Vulnerability Could Violate Virtual Machines

2015-05-15 00:38:33| TechNewsWorld

Crowdstrike on Wednesday made public its discovery of yet another long-buried Linux vulnerability. "Venom," as it has been dubbed, was unearthed by the firm's senior security researcher, Jason Geffner. It is listed as vulnerability CVE-2015-3456. Venom exists in the virtual floppy drive code used by virtualization platforms based on QEMU, or quick emulator. It has been around since 2004.

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Venom

2013-12-13 13:01:06| Toys - Topix.net

Source: www.thewrap.com --- Friday, December 13, 2013Sony Pictures Entertainment, in association with Marvel Entertainment, is expanding its blockbuster "Spider-Man" franchise with new projects including "Venom" and "The Sinister Six," the studio announced Thursday night via ElectroArrives.com .

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Researchers use nanosponges to mop up MRSA toxin, venom from the bloodstream

2013-04-18 17:11:07| Extremetech

Researchers at UCSD have come up with a way to combat the effects of alpha-haemolysin, the often lethal component of drug-resistant bacteria. By soaking it up with a polymer nanosponge wrapped in red blood cell membranes, animals by be cured from am otherwise lethal injection of the bacterial toxin.

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