We grade the guide that federal agencies will use to secure their VMware ESX servers. The problems? It treats VMware servers as Unix, eliminates antivirus for the wrong reasons, and leaves gaps that ...

VMware has released another hardening guideline, this time for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5. Its guidance can also apply to version 3.0, though. This guide is useful in that it actually looks as ...

VMware offers several guides to how to harden virtual servers, but the primary ones say little about how to deal with some of the most critical issues. As I’ve discussed in previous blogs on ...

VMware warned customers today to install the latest security updates and disable the OpenSLP service targeted in a large-scale campaign of ransomware attacks against Internet-exposed and vulnerable ...

Hypervisor maker VMware has warned that attackers are using previously disclosed vulnerabilities in its ESXi hypervisor and components to deploy ransomware. The company believes the vulnerabilities ...

With security becoming ever more important, I’ve been reviewing the various guides available to harden the VMware virtual infrastructure. So far, the results have been disappointing. I’ve looked at ...