Security and Protection & Virtual Machines

Malware

Software design to exploit computer.

Trojan Horse

Program that acts like normal program but has malicious software.

Spyware

Program that captures user data.

Ransomware

Locks up data via encryption.

Type 0 hypervisors

Hardware-based solutions that provide support for virtual machine creation and management via firmware.
EX: VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, XenServer

Type 1 hypervisors

Operating system like software built to provide virtualization.
EX: VMware ESX, Joyent SmartOS, Citrix XenServer

Type 2 hypervisors

Applications that run on standard operating system but provide VMM features to guest os.
EX: VMware workstation and fusion, Parallels Desktop, Oracle VirtualBox

Sniffing
Spoofing
Man-in-the-middle

Threats