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Re: [Xen-users] If Dom0 was compramised

To: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] If Dom0 was compramised
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:01:39 +0700
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> If Dom0 were to get compramised, how bad would this be? How much access to
> the DomUs does Dom0 have?

With physical servers, It would be the equivalent of someone having
access to your SAN (disks) and network switch/routers.
Results might include anything from man-in-the-middle-attacks or data theft.

-- 
Fajar

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