Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Users of VMware virtualized servers have experienced difficulty logging in after a network security bug locked their accounts, according to vnunet.com.
The publication noted that the problem arose due to a licensing time-out feature which led systems to believe user licenses had expired.
Accountholders logging on yesterday morning were greeted by an error message indicating that the system's "power on" function had failed because of a license expiry.
In a subsequent blog posting VMware insisted that the problem was not the result of a network attack and that the cause of the bug had been located.
"Several customers have been worried that their ESX systems had been compromised by an attack and that this was the cause for not booting," the group noted.
An express patch is currently being developed to resolve the issue.
Earlier this week, CBR Online noted that network security researchers who identified potential network security flaws in cloud-based systems have explained that a strong security strategy can help to reduce risk exposure to the bugs.
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