Tag Archives: Virtualization

RansomExx ransomware group targets VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities

Posted on 2021-02-02 by guenni

[German]A warning for administrators of VMWare ESXi systems. The RansomExx ransomware gang appears to be involved in several incidents where vulnerabilities in VMWare ESXi instances have been exploited to attack virtual machines and encrypt their virtual disks. Advertising

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VMware: Critical vulnerability in products like Workspace One etc.

Posted on 2020-11-25 by guenni

[German]VMware, the virtualization vendor, has issued a warning about a critical vulnerability in several Linux and Windows products. A patch is not yet available, only workarounds. Advertising

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VMware: Product and security updates (Nov. 2020)

Posted on 2020-11-22 by guenni

[German]VMware has just released updates to close a critical vulnerability in its ESXi virtualization platform. VMware Workstation and Player have also been upgraded for Windows 10 version 20H2. Here is a summary of the two topics. Advertising

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VMware confirms freezes on ESXi 6.5 Update 3 and 6.7 Update 3

Posted on 2020-11-10 by guenni

[German]Quick note for HPE server users who are running VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 3 and ESXi 6.7 Update 3 with a custom image. There it comes to 'hangs', VMware has now confirmed this. Advertising

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VirtualBox 6.1.16 freigegeben

Posted on 2020-10-26 by guenni

[English]Small addendum: Oracles developers have already released Virtualbox version 6.1.16 on October 16, 2020. It is a maintenance update which should fix bugs of earlier versions. Advertising

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Virtualization: New Office versions as performance killers

Posted on 2020-10-03 by guenni

[German]What about the performance of new versions of Microsoft Office? Every new version has a bigger foot print and feels more sluggish. I have just seen an interesting evaluation of VMware for Office in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments that … Continue reading →

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Parallels Standard no longer supports Windows 10 Betas

Posted on 2020-09-17 by guenni

[German]Bad news for Mac users who use Parallels virtualization software in macOS to test Windows 10 Insider Preview builds. Parallels Standard no longer supports Windows 10 Insider Previews in the Beta Channel because the manufacturer has secretly removed a required … Continue reading →

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Microsoft learning: Get started with Docker and Containers

Posted on 2020-08-19 by guenni

A small tip for people who want to work with dockers and the containers used there and who need to get into the material. Chris Noring from Microsoft has published the article Get started with Docker and Containers in the … Continue reading →

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Sandboxie Build 0.3/5.42 released

Posted on 2020-07-11 by guenni

[German]A few days ago David Xantos brought his Sandboxie-Fork to build 0.3/5.42. David informed me about this fact and some changes by mail. Thus security gaps in the original sandbox mechanism are fixed by the update.. Advertising

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Windows 10: Nested Virtualization support for AMD

Posted on 2020-06-14 by guenni

[German]Another small note for people who work with Hyper-V under Windows 10 Microsoft has begun adding support for nested virtualization on AMD systems in Windows 10. Advertising

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