VMWare vCenter takeover via vCloud Director (CVE-2020–3956 filed by Citadelo on June 1st, 2020)

VMWare vCenter takeover via vCloud Director (CVE-2020–3956 filed by Citadelo on June 1st, 2020)

Security researchers at Citadelo revealed an EL (Expression Language) based Injection vulnerability that enabled an authenticated actor to send a malicious payload (via API calls or intercepted Web request) that led toprivilege ...
Cyber Security Roundup for June 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for June 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2020.EasyJet's disclosure of a "highly sophisticated cyber-attack", which occurred ...
Cyber Security Roundup for May 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for May 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2020.As well reported, UK foreign exchange firm Travelex business ...
quantum computing

VMware To Create Security Business Unit Post-Carbon Black Buy

VMware has signaled it plans to create a dedicated cloud security business unit in the wake of agreeing this week to acquire Carbon Black, a provider of an endpoint security service based ...
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network security

VMware Moves to Close Cybersecurity Loop

VMware announced the general availability of another CloudHealth by VMware service that detects vulnerabilities and threats in real-time while also identifying cloud infrastructure that is potentially at risk of being compromised. Jason ...
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Security Automation

VMware Makes Case for Service-Defined Firewall

VMware today announced what it is positioning as the first service-defined firewall at the RSA Conference 2019. Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager for the networking and security business unit ...
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Akamai JavaScript

Hackers Exploit Critical Flaw in WordPress GDPR Compliance Plug-in

Hackers are breaking into WordPress websites by exploiting a recently patched privilege escalation vulnerability in a popular plug-in that allows site owners to conform to the GDPR user data collection requirements. The ...
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The One Takeaway from VMworld that Storage Drive Users Need to be Aware of

The One Takeaway from VMworld that Storage Drive Users Need to be Aware of

VMworld 2018 started off with a lot of fanfare. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger kicked the conference off with some mind-boggling statistics: With more than 7,500 customers, VMware NSX has achieved a substantial ...
Security Gets 'Baked In' at VMworld

Security Gets ‘Baked In’ at VMworld

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Another VMworld has come and gone, but the latest one was distinctly different from its predecessors—and I’m not talking about the presence of “The Mountain” from “Game of Thrones” in the Druva ...
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threat intelligence

VMware Pledges to Reduce Cybersecurity Costs

VMware, at this week’s VMworld 2018 conference, signaled its intention to reduce dramatically the number of products and technologies required to secure an IT environment by eliminating sensors, agents and the need ...
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