Sean Michael Kerner

Flood of Threat Data Overwhelming Security Operations Center Managers Intel Security’s McAfee Labs Threat Report for December 2016 finds that 93 percent of security managers are overwhelmed by security alerts. Security Pros Say They Are Overwhelmed by Threat Alerts An Intel Security study of 400 security professionals, discussed in the December 2016 McAfee Labs Threats […]

Knowing when an SSL/TLS certificate has been issued for a given domain is helpful in giving organizations insight into any potentially mis-issued security certificates. On December 13, Facebook announced the launch of its freely-available Certificate Transparency Monitoring tool, providing users with a simple way to search for recently issued certificates and to be alerted when […]

The open-source Kubernetes container management system is moving forward with the release of Kubernetes 1.5 on December 15, bringing the platform to Microsoft Windows Server for the first time. The Kubernetes 1.5 milestone is the last major release of Kubernetes in 2016 and follows the 1.4 release that debuted on September 26. The Kubernetes project […]

While Cisco is well-known as a leader in the networking industry, the fact that the company has a very large security business unit is perhaps sometimes overlooked. Cisco’s security business is one that David Ulevitch (pictured) is aiming to help promote and advance, as he becomes the Security Business Group Leader at Cisco. Cisco CEO […]

SAFECode is getting new leadership with the appointment of Steven Lipner as Executive Director. Lipner officially took the top job at SAFEcode on December 1, succeeding former U.S federal government cybersecurity co-ordinator Howard Schmidt. In his new role, Lipner will bring his expertise as one of the founders of the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) methodology […]

Pebble, the company that began as the dream of founder Eric Migicovsky with a $10.3 million Kickstarter campaign in 2012 is no more and with it are concerns about the continued viability of the wearable market as a whole. Pebble’s assets, such as they are, are being acquired by rival wearable vendor Fitbit in a […]

At long last, the cloud is coming to Canada. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on December 8, the official launch of the new AWS Canada (Central) Region, providing cloud infrastructure from data centers in Montreal, Quebec. The new AWS region is set to help serve customers in Canada with Amazon already highlighting a number of […]

WordPress 4.7 Content Management System Provides New Design Options New release of the widely-deployed open-source content management and blogging system debuts with a new theme, customization and developer options. WordPress 4.7 is a Sassy Release Ever since the WordPress 1.0 ‘Davis’ version released in January of 2004, new releases have been codenamed after Jazz musicians. […]

It’s about to get a whole lot easier to deploy encryption across the web. Comodo and cPanel announced, on December 8, a new partnership to enable an AutoSSL feature that provides free SSL/TLS encryption certificates to cPanel’s hosting customers. While the AutoSSL partnership is officially being announced now, cPanel has already deployed it as part […]

Floki Bot malware is an emerging threat and is based on source code that originally came from the Zeus trojan, according to research published December 7 by Cisco Talos and Flashpoint. The two security research groups worked together to analyze the Floki Bot malware which was created by a threat adversary that uses the alias […]

In a new two-year research study, Google researchers have concluded that the use of the FIDO Alliances’ Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) standard, as part of the Google Security Keys initiative, has had positive security results. The new study comes as FIDO is preparing to update its standards for 2017. Google first embraced the FIDO Alliances’ […]

Docker Inc. announced on December 6 that it is acquiring privately-held distributed storage vendor Infinit. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. The Infinit Storage Platform is an open-source decentralized software defined storage technology that is ideally suited for container and micro-services deployments. The Infinit approach makes use of multiple nodes in […]