I can only hope that the theft & leak of the code will enable someone to create an more polished version of the pigs ear that is the vSphere client.
Anon because for me, virtualisation is where the beer tokens come from.
VMware has confirmed that software posted online is part of the source code for its ESX hypervisor and has warned that more code could be released. The code was posted by a hacker calling himself Hardcore Charlie and may come from military contractor China National Import & Export Corp (CEIEC), which he claimed to have …
If the source being released contains highly confidential and proprietary codes, I'm surprised they were accessing from the net at all.
More likely, a yellow skinned man walked right up to the head developer's desk and took out the master code and walked out at 3am in the morning.
Syndicate. It's becoming reality.
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at a guess, because its the source code build files (not a coder, excuse my terminology) in the screenshot and not the actual line by line code itself.
regardless, according to the article its ESX which is based on *shhh dont tell anyone* redhat linux.
ESXi is the significantly better and more recent hypervisor from vmware which pretty much eliminates all the attack vectors exposed in the previous ESX/redhat OS.
everyone has upgraded their infrastructure to ESXi by now, havent they? ;-)