Sean Michael Kerner

E&Y Survey Find Enterprises Lack Confidence in Cyber-Security Efforts The latest Ernst & Young Global Information Security Survey analyzed the views of security professionals worldwide, finding numerous shortcomings in IT security. Boards Lack Confidence in Organizational Security A key finding in the EY report is the lack of confidence in their company’s cyber-security from 87 […]

Akamai is acquiring privately-held bot detection vendor Cyberfend in an all-cash transaction, announced on Dec. 19. The acquisition will bring new security capabilities to Akamai, complementing its existing Bot Manager technology. Josh Shaul, vice president, web security product management at Akamai, told eWEEK that the full financial terms of the deal are not being publicly […]

Security firm IOactive on Dec. 20 publicly announced that it has found security flaws in Panasonic Avionic In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems used on multiple airlines around the world. The flaws were first reported to Panasonic by IOactive in March 2015 and were not publicly discussed until today, in an effort to give Panasonic and airlines […]

There are many different companies in the security analytics space, each attempting to sift through data in an attempt to help detect potential threats. One such vendor is RiskSense, which is a spin-off from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and has technology that is already in use by the U.S Department of […]

Most Businesses Pay Off Ransomware Attackers, IBM Study Finds An IBM Security study finds that only a minority of consumers have heard of ransomware and businesses hit by such attacks are willing to pay to get data back. Ransomware Attacks Arrive in Spam Emails Ransomware is typically delivered to victims as an email attachment. Over […]

There are a lot of different approaches to try and block malware and protect users from being exploited. Percipient Networks is taking a new approach to protecting organizations with its Strongarm platform, which was updated on December 14 with new mobile and always-on capabilities. Todd O’Boyle, co-founder and CTO at Percipient Networks helped to start […]

Red Hat announced the official release of its OpenStack Platform 10 on December 15, providing users with the option for up to five years of support. The new Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 release is based on the upstream open-source OpenStack Newton milestone that debuted on October 6. The new support model is important for […]

Tenable Network Security announced on December 15 that it has found its new leader, revealing that Amit Yoran will become the company’s CEO effective January 3, 2017. Yoran is a well known figure in the information security industry, having worked as the President of RSA Security and as the founding director of the United States […]

When a drone flies overhead, how can its owner be identified? That’s a question that is not easily answered today, but it might be in the future if the idea behind Drone ID, takes off. While Drone ID is specifically about helping to secure drones, the basic idea behind the technology has much wider applicability […]

There has been a chorus line of vendors in 2016 proclaiming an increase in ransomware threats. IBM is now adding to the mix with a security study released on Dec. 14, reporting that 70 percent of businesses impacted by ransomware end up paying the ransom. IBM is going a step beyond just reporting on ransomware, […]

Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker and the pioneer of the modern application container revolution, really wants to make sure that the Docker community and the container revolution will continue to grow in 2017 and beyond. To that end, Docker Inc announced on Dec. 14, the newly re-focused containerd (Con-tay-ner-D) initiative that will see the […]

Apple is updating both its desktop macOS Sierra and mobile IOS operating systems for multiple security vulnerabilities. The IOS 10.2 update was officially released on December 12, while the macOS 10.12.2 update followed a day later on December 13. Among the items fixed in IOS 10.2 is a vulnerability that was first publicly disclosed in […]