Cloud vendors are working furiously to beef up the security around their offerings in the hope of allaying potential customers’ fears. That’s a sound move on the vendors’ part, but I predict that as we get further into the Facebook and social networking age, the fear of placing even the most sensitive data on the cloud will dissipate naturally — even in corporate settings.
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July 31, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: Broadcom patched three critical VMware vulnerabilities on July 29 under advisory VMSA-2026-0006: CVE-2026-47876 (CVSS 9.3), an out-of-bounds write in ESXi's VMXNET3 virtual network adapter enabling a guest VM to escape...








