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New malware discovered targeting VMware ESXi servers

Security researchers at Juniper Threat Labs say they have identified previously undocumented malware targeting VMware ESXi servers that is notable for its “simplicity, persistence and capabilities.” VMware’s ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor that is widely deployed in large enterprises to run software virtually, from applications to fully emulated

Critical new pre-auth RCE Fortinet vulnerability exploited in wild

Fortinet has pushed out an emergency patch for a critical CVSS 9.3 vulnerability in numerous versions of its FortiOS operating system, which lets an unauthenticated, remote attacker (pre-auth RCE) take over systems. Critics would be forgiven for asking tough questions about QA and feeling like it was "

Microsoft buys 4% of London Stock Exchange; LSEG to spend $2.8bn on cloud

Two will co-develop new analytics services, migrate data infrastructre to Azure

Coupa to go private under $8bn Thoma Bravo deal

Private Equity house Thoma Bravo will buy supply chain software company Coupa for $8 billion including debt, or $81 a share – moving in after the Nasdaq-listed company tumbled from its 2021 highs of over $360 per share. Not all shareholders will be happy. Morgan Stanley analysts led by Keith

Log4J at 1: A third of downloads still vulnerable to RCE

A year after a critical vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of open source software, Log4J, set off what The Stack described at the time as an “internet cluster bomb”, nearly 40% of downloads of the popular open source java logging library are still of the vulnerable version – despite the high

US Army officially world's biggest Teams user as legacy email killed off

Army 365 migration completed

Cash-rich IBM eyes federal business with its 7th deal of 2022

Acquisition is IBM's seventh this calendar year

Rackspace confirms ransomware attack on $30m biz; 200k affected

Rackspace has confirmed that it was hit by ransomware. The incident on December 2 affected its hosted Microsoft Exchange offering, leaving hundreds of thousands of customer email inboxes inaccessible. The scale of the attack is significant. Rackspace said its Hosted Exchange business generates $30 million in annual revenue – but has

One single HMG department is running 600+ unsupported apps

Defra legacy IT issues mean department is running some 2,000 applications, 30% of them unsupported. The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is running 600+ applications that are end of life (EOL), or no longer supported with software updates by their suppliers; a severe potential

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