Sean Michael Kerner

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) helps businesses automate and scale how they test their cybersecurity defenses. Unlike traditional penetration testing, which offers a point-in-time view of defenses, BAS can assess risk in real time, even as IT environments and networks change and increase in complexity. Join technology journalist Sean Michael Kerner and Gus Evangelakos of […]

Red Hat is kicking off its annual Red Hat Summit customer event on May 7, announcing the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 adds multiple new features including a web console, application streams, improved security and updated configuration capabilities. Red Hat Enteprise Linux is Red Hat’s flagship platform, serving […]

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.1 kernel update on May 5, providing users of the open-source operating system with new features that will help to improve performance, stability and security. The Linux kernel is at the core of any Linux-based operating system, providing drivers, CPU, storage, networking and memory enablement. In Linux 5.1, performance is […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The elephant or rather the whale in the room at DockerCon this week, was the data breach of the Docker Hub, first disclosed on April 26. During a keynote address and in a private press session at DockerCon on May 1, Docker executives provided a formal response to the data breach, which […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Docker CEO Steve Singh kicked off his company’s DockerCon 19 event with the assertion that container technology is the engine for innovation in the modern digital economy. DockerCon runs from April 29 – May 2 with approximately 5,000 attendees gathered to learn and discuss the container technology that Docker created. DockerCon also […]

Few if any figures in the OpenStack community are as well-known, or as outspoken, as Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth. At the Open Infrastructure Summit in Denver on April 29, Shuttleworth delivered a keynote where he took issue with the direction the OpenStack Foundation is headed, by extending its focus beyond the […]

The OpenStack Foundation is continuing to grow its open-source efforts, including confirming new top-level projects and expanding its Ironic bare metal program, as part of the kickoff for the Open Infrastructure Summit. The Kata Containers secure container effort and the Zuul Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) projects have now been confirmed as top-level projects at the […]

Docker is warning of a data breach that impacts some 190,000 users of its Docker Hub repository for container images. The breach was first reported by Docker late on April 26 in an email sent to Docker Hub users, revealing a data breach that was detected the day before, on April 25. Docker Inc. is the […]

There is never a shortage of bad news when it comes to cyber-security, thanks to a seemingly endless stream of vulnerabilities and exploits. The 2019 Trustwave Global Security Report, released on April 25, has its fair share of bad news as it has found that multiple types of attacks have grown and attackers have continued […]

Symantec reported on April 25 that an unknown group of attackers is making use of the same EternalBlue vulnerability that enabled the WannaCry ransomware attack to conduct cryptojacking attacks on enterprises. The attack has been dubbed “Beapy” by Symantec and apparently has been ongoing since January 2019. According to Symantec’s report, Beapy is a cryptojacking […]