Alphabet’s Google has made a rare move by paying damages to the U.S. government before a jury trial in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit over its digital advertising business. This preemptive action was taken to avoid a potentially lengthy and costly trial. The lawsuit was successful, highlighting the increasing scrutiny that tech companies are facing … Read more
Citrix has recently identified a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-31497) in certain versions of its Citrix Hypervisor virtualization platform. This vulnerability is associated with the use of a vulnerable version of the PuTTY SSH client in XenCenter, the management console for Citrix Hypervisor. The affected versions of XenCenter, specifically those prior to 8.2.6 in the Citrix Hypervisor … Read more
VMware issued a security advisory Tuesday warning users to uninstall the VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP) due to critical and high severity vulnerabilities. The VMware EAP is a deprecated browser plugin that enables seamless single sign-on (SSO) to vSphere’s management interface from client workstations. It is an optional feature that stopped receiving support with the … Read more
Getty Images VMware is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to break out of sandbox and hypervisor protections in all versions, including out-of-support ones, of VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products. A constellation of four vulnerabilities—two carrying severity ratings of 9.3 out of a possible 10—are serious … Read more
Mar 06, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Vulnerability VMware has released patches to address four security flaws impacting ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, including two critical flaws that could lead to code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-22252 and CVE-2024-22253, the vulnerabilities have been described as use-after-free bugs in the XHCI USB controller. They carry a CVSS score of 9.3 … Read more
Broadcom and VMware have agreed not to tie or bundle certain high-technology products in China to win approval for their $69 billion tie-up and clear the final remaining merger review hurdle. Source link
According to customer reports, this month’s Patch Tuesday updates are breaking virtual machines on Hyper-V hosts, causing them to no longer boot and display “failed to start” errors. According to complaints from Windows admins, the issue is triggered after installing KB5031361 and KB5031364 on Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 systems. The following errors … Read more
VMware on Tuesday issued an advisory on two vulnerabilities — one of them critical — for Aria Operations for Networks and said updates are now available for security teams looking to patch. Aria Operations for Networks comes in both on-prem and cloud-based version and aims to help security teams build a secure network infrastructure across … Read more
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a seven-layer model that describes how data transfers from one device to another in a network. Each layer of the OSI model performs different functions, with each layer relying upon the services provided by the layer below it. This model is used worldwide as a standardized reference model … Read more
Routing and switching are two of the most critical functions in a computer network. Routing ensures that data is sent from one network to another while switching sends data within the same network. Proper management of routing and switching can help to maintain network performance, ensuring users have access to the resources they need with … Read more