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As VMware forges partnership with our Public Cloud Provider Partners (also known as Hyperscale partners), our customers now have choice and flexibility to choose the appropriate Public Cloud Providers, in their preferred geographic region, to build, manage, automate, secure and operate their VMware based workloads. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to deploy VMware Clouds (aka Software Defined Data Centers or Private Clouds) in Multiple Cloud Provider Partner environments. For the purpose…

With all the changes recently quite a few people have been talking about Docker Desktop and trying to understand what it actually does on your machine. A few people have asked, “is it just a container UI?”  Great developer tools are magic for new developers and save experienced developers a ton of time. This is what we set out to do with Docker Desktop. Docker Desktop is designed to let you build, share and run containers…

In use for a decade as the de facto standard for communicating software bills of materials, SPDX formally becomes the internationally recognized ISO/IEC JTC 1 standard. Image: Kheng Guan Toh/Shutterstock The Linux Foundation announced Thursday the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification has been published as ISO/IEC 5962:2021 and recognized as the open standard for security, license compliance and other software supply chain artifacts.  Software bills of materials are used to communicate information in policies…

Chances are good you’re not using your browser with a strong enough eye on security. Jack Wallen offers up some advice to the average user on how to browse safer. Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock For the love of privacy and security, stop! You’re using the default settings in your web browser, thereby assuming the companies that created the software either know what’s best for you or don’t have ulterior motives for how they set security options…

Cyberattacks have surged during the coronavirus pandemic as criminals rake in bountiful ransomware payouts. Malicious office docs have been on the rise for months, per a new report. Image: GettyIMages/South_agency Cyberattacks have increased over the last year as criminals rake in record ransomware payouts. According to a recent AtlasVPN report, malicious office documents are the latest trend in cybercriminal behavior; a timely strategy as companies pause office reentry plans and continue to work remotely due…

Attackers have made it known that Microsoft is clearly in their cross hairs when it comes to potential targets. Just last month the US Justice Department disclosed that Solorigate continues to comprise security when they confirmed over 80% of Microsoft email accounts were breached across four different federal prosecutors offices. In August Microsoft released another security patch (the second of two) for PrintNightmare, which allows remote attackers system level escalation of all Windows clients and…

The recent large-scale cyberattacks have shown that any organization, regardless of size or industry, may be targeted at any time. Despite deploying multiple tools, security teams struggle to pinpoint relevant threats, wasting time sifting through incoming data and false positives and cannot act swiftly to real threats facing their business. A recent Dark Reading study revealed that while many organizations have improved their threat detection capabilities over the last few years, they lack threat visibility…

In a security advisory, Microsoft has warned that malicious hackers are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Windows to launch targeted attacks against organisations. The security hole, dubbed CVE-2021-40444, is a previously unknown remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML, a core component of Windows which helps render web-based content. According to Microsoft, attacks exploiting the vulnerability have targeted companies via boobytrapped Microsoft Office documents. In short, a typical timeline of infection might go something like this:…