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This story has been updated here on February 8. Security researchers are reporting an explosion in the compromise of VMware ESXi hypervisors with over 500 machines hit by ransomware this weekend, with the automated attacks likely exploiting CVE-2021-21974. As The Stack published, some 20 ESXi machines were reportedly being ransomed

Redmond suggests partners "regularly review unbilled usage data for cost spikes"

Five key lessons from a previous attack on a major software provider

Security researchers regularly chafe at the deafening silence when they report a critical vulnerability in software: White Hats simply wanting to help organisations fix their cybersecurity all too often still find themselves being ignored – or worse, threatened with legal action when trying to help publicly exposed organisations that have not

Big Iron applications to be retired or refactored in a bid to save £17m/year

Security researchers have published a proof-of-concept (POC) exploit that lets remote and unauthenticated attackers take over VMware vRealize Log Insight as root user by chaining three recent vulnerabilities. vRealize Log Insight is VMware’s log management tool for infrastructure and applications which boasts “actionable dashboards… and broad third-party extensibility across

The US Department of Defense has started user testing for a new “Office 365 classified cloud”, days after Microsoft took its new Office 365 Government Secret cloud to general availability (GA). Tests at this high classification level coms months after the US Army decommissioned a legacy email system with four

OCI opening up to more OSs.

DIT staff having to resort to "manual workarounds..."