- Ah management devices, the soft underbelly of your infrastructure. The good people over at Rapid7 have been doing some analysis of the IPMI implementation in SuperMicro servers and have found a few things. There will be some Metasploit modules released. While SuperMicro is the target here, if you watch your favourite hardware vendor’s announcements you will see this is something they all struggle with.
- There is a Microsoft Graphics Component vulnerability doing the rounds as of late. While it affects older software and versions of Windows, Lync 2010 and 2013 versions are affected on the client side.
- It feels like forever that we’ve been at the 4TB HDD level but HGST have announced a 6TB hard drive. I bet this will be hellishly expensive (it is airtight and using helium due to the lower density) so I doubt we will be filling up our NASes with these any time soon.
- Martijn over at Lost Domain is starting a series of blog posts on VMware NSX. I found this very useful as it gives an overview of each component. There is a lot to this SDN stuff and it varies between vendors so it can be a little hard keeping track.
- Yet more information on Cisco ACI is coming out. One thing is for sure in all of this, learn VXLAN. Wither NVGRE I guess?
