Hacking contest exposes VMware security
The cyber security team at Broadcom has acknowledged that during the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Berlin in March, there were three successful attacks on the VMware hypervisor. On 16 March, Nguyen Hoang Thach, a security researcher from Star Labs, successfully exploited VMware ESXi. “This is the first time VMware ESXi was exploited in the Pwn2Own…