Hyper-V is decent. It’s VMM that is atrocious. Hopefully you don’t have Citrix with MCS catalogs.

FYI, making you the product is only a tiny part of their stated reasoning:

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can-cloudflare-offer-a-free-cdn-with-unlimited-bandwidth

Most likely it was a password stuffing attack. If they used the same password on multiple sites, there is a good chance one of those other sites was compromised and the attackers took the compromised credentials and tried them on other sites like Instagram. It could have been something more advanced like a stolen cookie, but usually the simplest explanation is most likely.

Always use a different password for each service, enable MFA where possible, and use a password vault like Bitwarden.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Efficiency

The rootkit is easy enough to turn off in the BIOS but I highly, highly recommend G-Helper instead of Armoury Crate.

Moving to it from AC is like leaving a prison cell full of screaming children and entering a calm beach.

Oh yeah. They all do/will. But they are still better firewalls than ASAs.

ASAs are still way more prevalent than they should be when Palo Alto and others are much better options. Still, I’m glad I barely have to deal with them any more.

You connect directly to the ESXi host with root. Because you’re going to have to boot up vCenter in addition to the DC anyway when you’re using SSO. I would use DRS rules to prefer host1 for vCenter and the PDCe for that reason.

Only in the very early days of virtualization (2008-2012) did I recommend keeping a physical server around. I know a lot more now than I did then.

But anymore, I don’t recommend using SSO for hypervisors or backup infrastructure. It’s better to add another wall in front of an attacker trying to laterally move onto these critical platforms for ransom, data exfiltration, etc.

And in reality, these “kaboom events” aren’t terribly common unless you’ve neglected some other part of your infrastructure.

While I can’t speak from experience, I would imagine this isn’t terribly uncommon for black people in America at least (and other people of color).

There’s still a lot of systemic racism over here, so unfortunately sometimes you have to mask who you are just to approach being treated the same as white people.