SaltStack, a VMware-owned company, has revealed critical vulnerabilities impacting Salt versions 3002 and prior, with patches available as of today. Salt is an open-source IT infrastructure management ...

VMware said Tuesday that it plans to acquire SaltStack, makers of event-driven automation software, to bolster its cloud portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. VMware ...

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In a security alert released on May 28, Cisco revealed two significant "vulnerabilities" in its software led to six servers being left wide open to hackers. SaltStack is a piece of management software ...

Attackers compromised six Cisco VIRL-PE servers that are affected by critical SaltStack vulnerabilities. Cisco said attackers have been able to compromise its servers after exploiting two known, ...

Intelligent orchestration software provider SaltStack secured $15.5 million in Series A funding led by venture capital firm Mercato Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $28 million, ...

SaltStack Enterprise 5.0 draws on high-speed messaging for superior scalability and control, but the web UI is still catching up The only sane and efficient way to manage a large numbers of servers—or ...

The Salt Project has patched a privilege escalation bug impacting SaltStack Salt minions that could be used during a wider exploit chain. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-28243, is described as a privilege ...

Cisco said today that some of its Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition (VIRL-PE) backend servers were hacked by exploiting critical SaltStack vulnerabilities patched last month. "Cisco ...

VMware Inc. is acquiring SaltStack Inc., the company behind a widely used infrastructure automation tool, to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced against the ...