RSS_Virtulization

A multi-national outsourcing company that runs part of the UK’s COVID-19 Test and Trace system has been hit by ransomware, according to reports. British services business Serco, which employs 50,000 staff and manages hundreds of contracts worldwide, confirmed to Sky News that it had suffered an attack. However, the firm did not comment on the impact or whether it had paid the ransom demand. It did claim, however, that only its mainland European operations were…

Thursday marked a rare day where law enforcement agencies around the world hit back in the war against ransomware attackers. Europol announced a takedown of infrastructure used to run the Emotet botnet in a joint operation with law enforcement organizations from the U.S., U.K., Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Lithuania, and Ukraine. According to a release, authorities seized an undisclosed number of servers, computers and other devices used by Emotet, which functions as both a…

In this post we take a look at a vRealize Operations (vROps) deployment for vSphere 7; building on the installation of vCenter 7.0 U1 and vSAN 7.0 U1. At the time of writing the latest available version of vROps is 8.2. vRealize Operations is an IT operations management tool for monitoring full-stack physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure, along with virtual machine, container, operating system, and application level insights. vROps provides performance and capacity optimisation, monitoring…

Cyber attacks that lead to data breaches are becoming increasingly common in all industries, but there are certain types of businesses that are more vulnerable than others. The hospitality industry in particular is one of the most likely industries to be targeted by cybercriminals in addition to retail and finance. It only makes sense that the travel industry would be such an enticing target for malicious actors. After all, how many industries do you know…

By Anthony Webb, EMEA Vice President, A10 Networks This year, online retailers pushed the boundaries with “Black Friday” deals in the hopes of improving their online sales, thanks to the uncertainty around in-store shopping due to COVID-19, leading many customers to make their purchases from the safety of their own homes. As a result, e-commerce merchants have witnessed a significant uptick in users and devices connecting to websites than in recent years. Good Cybersecurity is…