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VMware Cloud on AWS introduced SDDC Groups and VMware Transit Connect last year  – a construct to organize SDDCs along with high bandwidth connectivity for SDDCs in a Group. Transit Connect also provides a simple and scalable solution to connect to AWS VPCs and on-premises data centers over Direct Connect Gateway. Together, they enable customers to expand their deployments while laying the foundation for new features such as vCenter Linking. SDDC Group Connectivity to Transit…

Commentary: Open source has never been more popular or more under attack, but there’s something cloud providers can do to make OSS more secure. Image: Kheng Guan Toh/Shutterstock TechRepublic contributing writer Jack Wallen is correct that “Open source software has proved itself, time and time and time again, that it is business-grade for a very long time.” Sonatype is also correct that supply chain attacks against popular open source software repositories jumped 650% over the…

The protected health information of hundreds of thousands of Americans has been exposed in two separate security incidents at eye-care providers in the United States. Simon Eye Management reported a data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights on September 14. An email hacking incident at the Delaware-based eye-care group exposed the data of 144,000 individuals. According to a notice issued by Simon Eye, suspicious activity “related to certain employee email accounts”…

After more than a century of technological innovation since the first units rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly lines, automobiles, and transportation bear little in common with the Model T era. This evolution will continue as society finds better ways to achieve the outcome of moving people from point A to point B. While Secure Web Gateways (SWGs) have operated on a far more compressed timetable, a similarly drastic evolution has taken place. SWGs are still…

Issuing and installing SSL certificates doesn’t have to be a challenge, especially when there are tools like acme.sh available. Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use this handy script. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Installing SSL certificates isn’t difficult, but it’s a process every Linux administrator will have to take on at some point in their career. One of the more popular methods of getting and installing SSL certificates on Linux is by way of…

An alert has been issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over Conti ransomware. In the warning, which was posted on September 22, the agencies observed the increased use of Conti in more than 400 attacks against organizations in the United States and internationally.  The alert said that Conti actors often get network access via spearphishing campaigns, stolen or weak Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phone calls, fake software…

A court in Illinois has issued an opinion clarifying how the statute of limitations should be applied to the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In what The National Law Review described as “a highly anticipated ruling,” the Illinois Appellate Court published an opinion that while a one-year deadline would be applied to claims based on unlawful profit or disclosure, claims relating to data retention policy disclosure, informed consent, and safeguarding would have a limitation period of five years. …