Cybersecurity

Security researchers at Juniper Threat Labs say they have identified previously undocumented malware targeting VMware ESXi servers that is notable for its “simplicity, persistence and capabilities.” VMware’s ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor that is widely deployed in large enterprises to run software virtually, from applications to fully emulated

Fortinet has pushed out an emergency patch for a critical CVSS 9.3 vulnerability in numerous versions of its FortiOS operating system, which lets an unauthenticated, remote attacker (pre-auth RCE) take over systems. Critics would be forgiven for asking tough questions about QA and feeling like it was "deja

A year after a critical vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of open source software, Log4J, set off what The Stack described at the time as an “internet cluster bomb”, nearly 40% of downloads of the popular open source java logging library are still of the vulnerable version – despite the high

Rackspace has confirmed that it was hit by ransomware. The incident on December 2 affected its hosted Microsoft Exchange offering, leaving hundreds of thousands of customer email inboxes inaccessible. The scale of the attack is significant. Rackspace said its Hosted Exchange business generates $30 million in annual revenue – but has

"Previous deployments of application and server stacks have had issues..."