Jack Wallen tries out the Firewalla Gold to see if it’s worthy of serving as your work-from-home security device. Image: istock/structuresxx With so many people working from home, network security has become crucial. Although you might feel your default ISP equipment is up to the task, if you’re sending and receiving sensitive data from work, that might not be the case. Enter devices like the Firewalla, which are quite good at serving the needs of…

Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) is a first party, fully managed solution supported by Google Cloud and VMware cloud verified. With GCVE customers receive a quickly provisioned private cloud (within approximately 30 minutes) leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation, which includes vSphere (vCenter Server, ESXi), vSAN, and NSX-T. Also included with GCVE is VMware HCX, allowing customers to migrate their workloads from on-premises as far back as vSphere 6.0 without the need to re-platform. VMware HCX is…

Data belonging to a client of recently hacked California-based private cloud solutions company Accellion is being advertised for sale online by cyber-criminals. On the website Clop Leaks, ransomware gang Clop are claiming to have in their possession an unspecified amount of information belonging to the Steris Corporation. Steris is an American Ireland-registered medical equipment company specializing in sterilization and surgical products for the US healthcare system.  Documents that appear to have been stolen include a confidential report about…

The Lazarus group had a busy 2020, and 2021 is shaping up to be another devastatingly productive year for one of the most dangerous hacking groups on the planet. Image: BeeBright, Getty Images/iStockphoto Kaspersky security researchers have found evidence that the North Korean hacking collective known as Lazarus has added another target to its list of victims: The defense industry, and companies in more than a dozen countries have already been affected. As previously reported…

A senior Iraqi politician has become the victim of a prolonged international campaign of intimidation and online extortion. In dual raids carried out on February 24, police in Australia and Canada arrested four individuals accused of targeting the politician and his family for over a year.  While the identity of the victim has not been officially disclosed, Australian police described him as a “very senior politician” who has dual Australian and Iraqi citizenship and who…

The now-patched vulnerability could have allowed attackers to scan a company’s internal network and gain access to sensitive data, says Positive Technologies. iStock/weerapatkiatdumrong VMware has fixed a serious flaw in its vCenter Server VMware utility that could have opened the door for hackers to remotely execute code on a vulnerable server. In a press release published Wednesday, Positive Technologies, which discovered and alerted VMware to the bug, said attackers could have exploited the vCenter Server…

Kubernetes is something that has now become a commodity within Cloud Operations. Cloud Operations more and more becomes responsible for delivering and managing the Kubernetes stack as-a-service. This blog shows which capabilities need to be addressed for Kubernetes delivery.   If you are living in IT, you know by now that containers are an easy way to deliver applications. This has been one of the key reasons behind the rapid adoption of containers by developers….