

When deployed as a service on Windows, Cloudbase-Init takes care of all the guest initialization actions: disk volume expansion, user creation, password generation, custom PowerShell, CMD and Bash scripts execution, Heat templates, PowerShell remoting setup and much more.Įven though there were limited options for guest initialization until recently, now you can rest assured. However, what would happen if you needed to do the same thing, but on Windows® guests?Ĭloudbase-Init™ is the Windows equivalent of the Cloud-Init project used on most OpenStack Linux images. OpenStack™ provides the required metadata via HTTP or via ConfigDrive and Cloud-Init takes care of configuring the instance on Linux. But what does it tell us about the role of cyber-attacks in modern politics? And what lessons can organisations learn for their own security? Michael Buratowski of Fidelis Cyber-security examines the hack and draws some conclusions.Cloud-Init is the OpenStack automated initialization of a new instance which is a task that needs to be split between the cloud infrastructure and the guest OS. Security companies analysed the breach and quickly came to the conclusion that the hackers were based in Russia.



As a result, a number of documents were leaked online. In June 2016, the computer networks of the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) were hacked. Standing feet away from Vladimir Putin at a press conference following their Helsinki tete-a-tete, a reporter challenged Trump to condemn Putin for Russia’s election interference, in. As a result, a number of documents were leaked online, including plans to spend more than £600,000 on a ‘counter-convention’ to compete with the Republican National Convention (RNC), as well as internal memos, financial spreadsheets and planning documents. Trump’s ‘Missing DNC Server’ Is Neither Missing Nor a Server Kevin Poulsen07.16.18 9:58 PM ET Donald Trump turns to right-wing conspiracy theories when he’s cornered, and he was cornered on Monday. On 14 June 2016, the computer networks of the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) were hacked. With all that has been happening in UK politics over recent months, it is easy to forget that the US has also been at the centre of some serious political controversy.
