Sean Michael Kerner

IT Professionals Give Cyber-Security Confidence a C- Grade for 2017 According to a new study from Tenable Network Security, confidence in cyber-security has dropped in the past year, although there are some bright spots. The U.S. Gets a C+ While the overall score globally is a C-, Tenable gives the United States a slightly better […]

IBM is aiming to further advance its capabilities to help organizations fight cybercrime, with the launch of Watson for Cyber Security beta program, announced on December 6. With the beta program, IBM will have 40 organizations testing the Watson for Cyber Security system. 
”Watson for Cyber Security is a cloud-based version of IBM’s Watson cognitive […]

Google announced its last regularly scheduled security patch update for Android in 2016 on Dec. 5, patching no less than 74 different vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system. The December vulnerability patch count is an improvement over the 83 vulnerabilities patched by Google in the November Android security update. As has been the case in […]

CA Technologies announced an update to its CA Identity Suite on November 30, providing enterprises with new deployment, integration and security capabilities. The new CA Identity Suite version 14 release benefits from recent acquisitions made by CA. “You need to have a model for how to ensure the appropriate access regardless of where the using […]

Encryption vendor Virtru launched a news service on Nov. 30 that enables its customers to keep encryption keys for cloud email services in an on-premises key server. The new Customer Key Server (CKS) extends the usability of Virtru’s so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ email encryption platform by giving enterprises control over encryption keys. Virtru provides a cloud-based system […]

AWS Add Services to Encourage Enterprises to Make Cloud Transformation Amazon Web Services announces a long list of new features and services as it encourages enterprises to move ever more data center workloads to the AWS cloud. PostgreSQL Support Added to Amazon Aurora The Amazon Aurora service is a cloud database that launched at the […]

Law enforcement organizations from around the world have co-ordinated in an operation to takedown the global botnet known as Avalanche. The operation to takedown the Avalanche botnet and its associated criminal infrastructure, was formally revealed on Dec. 1 and involved four years of investigation and co-operation between the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and […]

The Shamoon wiper, which is a class of malware that ‘wipes’ or destroys data on infected machines, is once again attacking systems in the Middle East, according to multiple reports from security vendors including CrowdStrike, FireEye and Symantec. Shamoon first appeared back in August 2012 and was linked to an attack against Saudi Aramco, Saudi […]

Late afternoon on November 30, Mozilla rushed out an emergency update for its open-source Firefox web browser, fixing a zero-day vulnerability that was being actively exploited by attackers. The vulnerability was used in attacks against the Tor web browser which is based on Firefox. The first public report of the Tor Browser attack emerged on […]

In a move that aims to help improve security vulnerability disclosure, the Node.js Security Project announced on November 30 that it is now officially becoming part of the Node.js Foundation. The move will help to improve the security of the open-source Node.js development framework and its modules, which are widely used in modern applications. The […]

Zorin OS 12 Improves Linux Desktop Access for Windows Users The New Zorin OS 12 Linux distribution release aims to make it easier for users of proprietary operating systems to work with Linux. New Desktop Experience for Zorin The Zorin Desktop 2.0 debuts in Zorin OS 12, based on Gnome Shell and providing a new […]

Linux vendor SUSE is acquiring OpenStack cloud and Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology and staff from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in a deal announced on November 30. Financial terms of the acquisition are not being publicly disclosed and the deal is set to close in the first quarter of 2017. HPE’s OpenStack technology and staff […]