On Tuesday, SaltStack, the creators of intelligent automation for IT operations and security teams, announced the general availability of SaltStack Protect. SaltStack Protect is for automated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach ...

Thomas S. Hatch released Salt, aka the SaltStack Platform, in 2011 after becoming frustrated with the (slow) speed of the Ruby-based open source configuration management systems available at the time, ...

A series of critical vulnerabilities in SaltStack’s open source Salt remote task and configuration framework will let hackers breeze past authentication and authorisation safeguards to take over ...

Commercial products, typically Belkin, expensive, badly secured, the apps are terrible, they have no APIs. Octoblu - aka Skynet - was a big fan of this project, since their acquisition they've gone ...

Using Xen role for installing salt-minion who worked some monthes ago (around 4-6 monthes, I was busy with some stuff), I got issue with unauthenticated packages. It seems that the salt-bootstrap ...