Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) PC pioneer Michael Dell is set to cap his climb back to the top of the computing world on Monday with one of the largest corporate spin-offs. Dell Technologies will shed its 81 percent stake in publicly traded VMware, creating an independent software company along with a stock market […]
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This is not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack
Enlarge A VMware vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 is under active exploitation. At least one reliable exploit has gone public, and there have been successful attempts in the wild to compromise servers that run the vulnerable software. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21985, resides in the vCenter Server, a tool for […]
Vulnerability in VMware product has severity rating of 9.8 out of 10
Enlarge (credit: Michael Theis / Flickr) Data centers around the world have a new concern to contend with—a remote code vulnerability in a widely used VMware product. The security flaw, which VMware disclosed and patched on Tuesday, resides in the vCenter Server, a tool used for managing virtualization in large data centers. vCenter Server is […]
Armed with exploits, hackers on the prowl for a critical VMware vulnerability
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers are mass scanning the Internet in search of VMware servers with a newly disclosed code-execution vulnerability that has a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. CVE-2021-21974, as the security flaw is tracked, is a remote code-execution vulnerability in VMware vCenter server, an application for Windows or Linux […]
Who is Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has always had a reputation as being a bit of a Boy Scout. So he decided to play against type a few years ago for his keynote address at the software […]
Intel gets the leader it needs
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. In what may be the least surprising tech news development of 2021 so far, Intel announced on Wednesday morning that CEO Bob Swan is leaving and will be replaced by […]
NSA Claims Russian Country hackers’re using a VMware Defect to ransack networks
Expand / This picture was that the profile banner {} of those reports supposedly run from the Internet Research Agency, the company that conducted social networking”impact campaigns” at Russia, Germany, Ukraine, and also the US dating back into 2009. (charge: An Russian troll) The National Security Agency states that Russian country hackers are sabotaging multiple […]