ESX 4.0 Active Directory Authentication
There are numerous posts about how to use Active Directory to authenticate your ssh logins to your ESX servers. Jason Boche,Travis Laird, Geert Baeke The idea is pretty simple Configure the ESX server …
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Many eons ago there was talk about patch footprints - comparing ESXi to Hyper-V, footprints and security patches. So today I came across this one. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-010 - Important …
A bit of housekeeping – Powershell
I have been busy with using Powershell in these past few days. I would like to share with you two of the scripts that I used lately. They were both used because of a password change that was made on a …
Deep Security 7 - Trend Micro & VMsafe
Trend Micro have now joined Altor Networks and Reflex Systems with their new offering that utilizes VMware’s VMsafe technology. I expect we will be seeing more and more of the Security Companies …
How VMware helps combat Viruses
I am not talking about a new Anti-virus solution or a new product, even though VMware does offer VMsafe for this exact purpose. Today I was hit with a very clever phishing attack. Details can be found …
VMware GO - Will You GO?
VMware has announced the Beta release of their new management product for ESXi free - VMware GO. From the short summary of the product VMware Go is a Cloud based application that enables you get up …
ESXi patches - My Response to Jeff Woolsey
Jeff Woolsey posted a comparison of disk footprint of ESXi and Windows 2008 Hyper-V server. Not getting into what I think of it yet, just a few facts and misconceptions before I start. Since then …
Virtual Thoughts
No, I have not started to become philosophical and all, this is about a new podcast that will be held this evening. The forum will be non-VMware centric, non-security centric podcast on virtualization …
VI Client vulnerability - Security Alert
I picked this one up on Twitter and Secunia. Another reason to to upgrade to VC 2.5 U4 VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client Password Disclosure Weakness Secunia Advisory: SA34585 Release Date: …
VNC Built-in Backdoor - Part 2
In continuation of my previous post about this issue with VNC and direct access to a vm through the service console. In my original findings, I stated that this was possible with both ESX3i and ESX …