One of the big advantages of using cloud IaaS is the convenience; you can spin up a VM whenever you need it, scale it, pause it or throw it away. But large organisations want the VMs they use in the ...

Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images -- with associated ...

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Microsoft Azure customers will now be able to create Ephemeral OS disks, a type of disc created on local virtual machine (VM) storage that is not saved to remote Azure storage. This latest feature ...

Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.4, the fourth and final version of 2022, with new Azure and QEMU images, six new tools, and improved desktop experiences. Kali Linux is a distribution ...

Four zero-day vulnerabilities in an open source piece of software that’s embedded in many popular Azure services can be exploited for privilege escalation and remote code execution attacks, report ...

IT administrators overseeing certain Microsoft Azure Linux virtual machines are being urged to make sure patches are installed after the discovery of four zero-day vulnerabilities that could allow ...

Is there a method to prep a Linux system so it can be redeployed? I would like to have a patched and ready Linux system to deploy for testing. Maybe I'm not understanding Linux fully and there might ...