On August 23rd 2022, VMware confirmed an important-rated security vulnerability affecting VMware Tools. This local privilege escalation vulnerability impacts Open VM Tools as well. VMware Tools vulnerability: CVE-2022-31676 Identified as CVE-2022-31676, this VMware Tools vulnerability can allow a potential attacker with local non-administrative access to the guest operating system (virtual machine) to escalate privileges as
Nginx and Apache are undoubtedly the two most used web servers worldwide. Each of them holds about a third of the market. According to W3Techs’ data, Nginx holds about 34.2% of the market and Apache about 31.2% — 28.9% and 22.6% respectively according to Netcraft’s data. This list includes some of the most popular web
High Availability or HA eliminates single points of failure in IT systems to minimize the impact of a disruption in systems, databases and applications. Thus reducing the risk of damaging productivity and losing revenue. Redundancy and automatic failure detection are key features to achieve HA. High Availability & Operational performance High Availability refers to an
Stackscale’s VP Sales & cofounder, David Carrero Fernández-Baillo, had an interview with CyberNews to talk about IT, the Internet and cybersecurity. The Covid-19 pandemic has entailed many challenges and threats and the digital world has been at the core of this new reality. As everyone’s digital activity increased, both personally and professionally, so did cyberattacks.
Debian is a free, open source Linux distribution. It was initially launched by Ian Murdock in 1993 as the “Debian Linux Release”. It was the first distribution to be open for contribution to all users and developers. Debian GNU/Linux The Debian GNU/Linux distribution includes the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel, and thousands of prepackaged
PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is the most popular alternative implementation of PHP FastCGI. PHP (acronym of PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is one of the most popular open source programming languages on the Internet, used for web development in platforms such as Magento, WordPress or Drupal. Although it was initially designed for preprocessing plain text in UTF-8.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is one of the main storage architectures, together with Storage Area Network (SAN) and Direct Attached Storage (DAS). What is Network Attached Storage or NAS? Network Attached Storage or NAS is one of the most commonly used storage systems thanks to the flexibility it provides. On the one hand, Network Attached
Server administration is essential to guarantee high performance and business continuity, as servers often host valuable data and mission-critical applications. So, either internally or externally, it must be carefully addressed. What is server administration? Server administration comprehends all tasks related to managing, optimizing and monitoring servers, networks and systems in order to ensure they work
In this post, we will focus on the process to export and import databases in MySQL and MariaDB in order to create a backup. There is not the slightest doubt that backups are essential to be protected against incidents such as data losses or cyberattacks. Therefore, when backing up websites and applications, it is important
Grafana is a multi-platform, open source web application for data analytics and interactive visualization. It enables the creation of control panels and graphs from multiple sources, including time series databases, hardware equipment, etc. The application is available under AGPL v3 license (GNU’s Affero General Public License, version 3.0). It is supported in the three main
