George Chetcuti’s Blog

Last Updated on 5 May 2016, Total: 769 Blog Posts

With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.

9 Command-line
168 General
46 Implementation
27 Monitoring
299 News
99 Products
99 Security
5 Troubleshooting
16 Virtualization

  1. Using centralized logging to mitigate Insider Threat

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 June 2015
    • Section: Monitoring

    In this report, Michael Hanley and Joji Montelibano (for CERT Insider Threat Center), present an insider threat pattern on how organizations can combat insider theft of intellectual property... Read More

  2. VMware VMX process denial of service vulnerability

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 20 Jan. 2014
    • Section: Security

    VMware's security advisory addresses several security issues in VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, ESXi, ESX and vCloud Director... Read More

  3. VMware Workstation 10.0.1 release

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 6 Dec. 2013
    • Section: Products

    VMware Workstation 10.0.1 is a maintenance release that is a free update for all VMware Workstation 10.x customers... Read More

  4. VMware product updates address OpenSSL security vulnerabilities

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 June 2014
    • Section: Security

    OpenSSL libraries have been updated in multiple products to versions 0.9.8za and 1.0.1h in order to resolve multiple security issues... Read More

  5. VMware product updates address information disclosure issue

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 20 Nov. 2015
    • Section: Security

    VMware vCenter Server, vCloud Director, Horizon View information disclosure issue... Read More

  6. VMware vCenter and ESXi updates address critical security issues

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 1 Oct. 2015
    • Section: Security

    VMware ESXi contains a double free flaw in OpenSLP's SLPDProcessMessage() function. Exploitation of this issue may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code remotely on the ESXi host... Read More

  7. VXL Instruments launches its new quad-core IQ-B series desktops

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 16 June 2015
    • Section: News

    Worldwide thin client supplier, VXL Instruments, launches its latest high-performance, IQ-B series desktop with powerful 2.0 GHz Intel Baytrail-D Celeron Quad Core processor with Turbo boost up to 2.4GHz... Read More

  8. Veeam’s FastSCP – a fast secure copy client

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 30 May 2011
    • Section: Products

    Veeam's product has evolved into one of the fastest secure copy software available out there and it's free! This is not a paid advert; I am an active user of WinSCP but lately I decided to try out the latest version of FastSCP and was surprised with the speed and additional features it has. I used previous versions of FastSCP... Read More

  9. Video Surveillance for Critical IT Systems

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 3 Jan. 2013
    • Section: Products

    NetWrix has announced its new User Activity Video Reporter tool... Read More

  10. VirtualizationAdmin.com monthly newsletter

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 22 Oct. 2012
    • Section: General

    The below extract is taken from September's VirtualizationAdmin.com monthly newsletter authored by Scott Lowe. 'I'll start by saying that I'm a fan of both vSphere and Hyper-V. Both have a place in the world. With the release of Windows Server 2012 has come Hyper-V Server 2012 along with a whole lot of incorrect information making its way around the Internet... Read More

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