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From time to time, AWS develops firmware updates to address known issues with the EC2 fleet.  These updates are staged on the instance and installed the next time the host reboots. To expedite the delivery of these improvements, VMware has developed a non-disruptive workflow to ensure updates are applied in a timely manner. What is the impact? The automated firmware update process is unscheduled and transparent and waits one (1) day between back-to-back host reboots…

Image: pickup/Adobe Stock Protecting data and applications in the cloud involves managing people, processes and technology with stringent policies. There has been a tremendous increase in the number of organizations migrating to the cloud due to its excellent reliability, scalability and reduced costs. SEE: Hiring Kit: Cloud Engineer (TechRepublic Premium) Cloud security plays a key role in this transition and journey to cloud, and it involves examining an organization’s data processing and storage practices to…

VMware Explore is the new flagship conference from VMware. This year the Europe event is back to real life, hosted in Barcelona November 7-10 2022. Explore replaces VMworld and has big shoes to fill; the latter running for a consecutive 18 years and attracting a combined 35,000+ visitors each yeah across 2 different regions. VMware is known across the industry for innovation. First pioneering virtualisation, then the software defined datacentre, and more recently the multi-cloud…

A newly discovered Android spyware family dubbed ‘RatMilad’ has been observed trying to infect an enterprise device in the Middle East. The discovery comes from security researchers at Zimperium, who said the original variant of the previously unknown RatMilad spyware hid behind a VPN and phone number spoofing app called Text Me. After identifying the RatMilad spyware, the Zimperium team also uncovered a live sample of the malware family distributed through NumRent, a graphically updated…

Jack Wallen shows you how you can increase the security of Bitwarden vault items with a simple configuration. Image: Vitalii Vodolazskyi/Adobe Stock Must-read security coverage Bitwarden is one of the best password managers on the market. Not only is the product an outstanding tool, but the company truly understands the issue of security and cares about the user experience. To that end, Bitwarden is constantly tweaking its software and adding additional features to help ensure…

I just walked out of room 716 at SecTor here in Toronto, where I shared details on my Raspberry Pi Pico project. I’m happy that I was finally able to share this and even happier to announce that the GitHub repo is now open to the public. I won’t walk you through the code, but you can reach out to me if you have questions.   So, what is the repo? As I mentioned in the announcement for my…