Sean Michael Kerner

Ransomware attacks are hitting a lot of organizations and many are getting attacked multiple times. According to a study released on November 18 by security firm SentinelOne, over the past 12 months, 50 percent of organizations have responded to a ransomware campaign. The study was conducted for SentinelOne by research firm Vanson Bourn and surveyed […]

Heptio was officially announced on Nov. 17, as yet another company in the ever-growing landscape of vendors aiming to support the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. Heptio is noteworthy in that it was recently founded and led by the same two Google staffers, Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, that originally created Kubernetes in the first […]

There’s a new web browser in the Apple AppStore today as Mozilla’s Firefox Focus makes its debut as a privacy-focused approach to mobile web browsing. The new browser follows multiple Mozilla efforts in recent years to improve security for both mobile and desktop users and debuts just two days after Firefox 50 for desktop was […]

OpenSUSE 42.2 Merges Best Features of Enterprise, Community Models The new OpenSUSE 42.2 milestone community Linux distribution benefits from the stability of the Linux 4.4 Long Term Support Kernel. It’s Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise The openSUSE Leap distribution is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). The Leap 42.2 update follows the SLE Service Pack […]

IBM is officially opening its new global security headquarters in Cambridge, MA, providing a new base of operations for the company’s $2 billion a year security business. Along with the new headquarters, IBM is opening what it calls the industry’s first “commercial Cyber Range,” which is a cyber-threat simulator to train clients who to deal […]

In a move that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, Microsoft today announced it is becoming a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation. As a Platinum member, Microsoft will provide $500,000 a year to the Linux Foundation and pledges to support the group’s open-source and Linux efforts. Microsoft has been moving incrementally toward embracing […]

Dell is expanding its data protection software portfolio with a new secure lifecycle offering that promises to help organizations protect data as it moves across devices and companies. The new product, announced Nov. 15, is called Dell Data Protection Secure Lifecycle, and has some of its roots in data protection software that Dell gained through […]

Akamai Reports DDoS Attacks Hit New Heights in 2016 Third Quarter Akamai’s third quarter State of the Internet Security report details the unrelenting increase in the scale of DDoS and web application attacks. DDoS Attack Traffic Volumes Keep Rising There were 19 DDoS attacks in the third quarter that were 100 Gbps or more of […]

Eugene Kaspersky, founder of security vendor Kaspersky Lab isn’t happy with Microsoft’s business practices and he wants the whole world to know about it. In a scathing public post, Kaspersky alleges that Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system makes it more difficult for his firm’s antivirus software to be used by customers. Kaspersky’s claims are not […]

In an effort to help open-source software developers build more secure software, the Linux Foundation is doubling down on its efforts to help the reproducible builds project. Among the most basic and often most difficult aspects of software development is making sure that the software end-users get is the same software that developers actually built. […]

Cloud Traffic Hits Data Center Tipping Point, Cisco Study Finds Cloud computing now makes up the majority of data center traffic, and it’s growing steadily. Traditional Data Center Traffic Hit 827 Exabytes in 2015 Traditional private data center generated 827 exabytes (EB) of data traffic in 2015. Cisco forecasts traditional data center traffic to grow […]

Yahoo first publicly confirmed on Sept. 22, that it was the victim of a massive data breach in 2014 that impacted over 500 million users. In a new SEC 10-Q filing, Yahoo reported that in fact, it was possible that it was known within Yahoo in 2014 that the company had been hacked. “An Independent […]