Broadcom has stopped delivering automated updates to #VMware Fusion and Workstation. All updates have to be downloaded and installed manually from the Broadcom Support Portal (as a side note: This portal is one of the worst corporate "support" websites I've seen in the last decade). This is terrible. It will lead to tens of thousands of VMware installations remaining vulnerable to trivially exploitable flaws, for example, local privilege escalation via CVE-2025-41244

Support Portal

Support Content Notification - Support Portal - Broadcom support portal

BTW, Please note that to fix CVE-2025-41244 you must now manually download the correct VMware Tools package from the support portal, unpack the zip, mount the ISO image, and then execute the setup.exe from the mounted ISO image. There is currently no VMware releases that include the fixed VMware Tools, so if you create any new VMs you MUST install the update manually to each new VM. Did I already mention this is terrible? #enshittification #infosec #cybersecurity

Aleksanteri Kivimäki - the person who mercilessly extorted psychotherapy centre patients with the leaked patient data - has been released from prison. Generally, I feel that the Finnish justice system is doing a fairly good job, but in this case, I feel like this is just outright wrong. This person should have served full time and not be considered a first-time offender. #vastaamo #vastaamopsychotherapycenter