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VENOM security vulnerability – possible threat to datacenters
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On Wednesday, May 13, 2015, new vulnerability that has been assigned CVE-2015-3456 was published. News agencies breaking this news stating that datacenters are vulnerable and at risk at their core:
“A security research firm is warning that a new bug could allow a hacker to take over vast portions of a datacenter -- from within.” ZDNet (May 13, 2015).
1. Digital Edge does not run vulnerable virtualization platforms.
2. Digital Edge has small portion of clients running vulnerable platforms. Digital Edge security team will be contacting such clients on individual bases.
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