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PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc. This means that users don't need any privileges or setup to do things like using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user mode. Also, developers can use PRoot as a generic Linux process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism, see...

Data exchange is a core part of all cloud systems so it becomes necessarily important to control access to data that are confidential and whose integrity influences the state of the system at any time.It can be proven that the administrator in a IaaS can easily perform some hidden and malicious task on unsuspecting customer machine. This is attributed to the fact that he/she possesses the root privilege to do so and forms an attack. A cold boot attack can easily be lauched amongst other attacks by the privilege user or system administrator.A simple attack scenario could be that a customer pays a virtual machine at Amazon EC2 (Provider) and the systemadmin (Privilidged User) who is, for instance, threatened to be fired, has access to the same virtual machine state, this priviledged user can easily leak customer’s data. ...

NTM Is a network traffic monitor for Linux (ubuntu, kubuntu, ecc). Characteristics: Integrate with linux NetworkManager; Autodisconnect when a threshold is reached; Day report; Console and Gui interface (gtk); Not need root privilege;