Sean Michael Kerner

Network security vendor Ixia announced a series of new product capabilities on Nov. 9 in a bid to help enterprises detect potential threats quicker and better manage a fleet of security appliances. The newly enhanced Application and Threat Intelligence Processor (ATIP) is part of Ixia’s Vision One platform that was first announced in March 2016. […]

Digital risk management vendor RiskIQ announced on November 10 that is has raised a $30.5 million Series C round of funding, with Georgian Partners leading the round. Total funding to date for RiskIQ now stands at $68 million. The new funding will be used to help drive RiskIQ’s engineering and global go-to-market efforts forward. “What […]

Security vendor Castle announced on Nov. 9 that it raised a $2 million seed round of funding from First Round Capital with participation from F-Prime Capital and FundersClub. Castle graduated from the Y Combinator cyber accelerator six months ago, bringing its account takeover technology to market. The seed funding will be used to help grow […]

Ransomware Takes Off, Web Browsers Under Attack: Kaspersky Report Kaspersky Lab’s latest IT Threat Evolution report once again highlights the risks of ransomware, as such attacks more than doubled in 3Q16. Browsers Are the Most Exploited Application While attackers still target Adobe Flash and Android often, the top target in the third quarter was web […]

Synopsys, a technology development vendor that has multiple divisions ranging from silicon to software, announced on Nov. 7 that it is acquiring privately held security companies Cigital and Codiscope. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed, though Synopsys expects the acquisitions to close by next month. Cigital provides application security testing and […]

Google on Nov. 7 released its November Android patches, which provide 83 fixes for vulnerabilities across three patch levels. Across the patch levels—a complete patch level identified as 2016-11-05, a partial patch level identified as 2016-11-01 and the 2016-11-06 supplementary patch level—Google is patching a total of 13 vulnerabilities rated as having critical impact. Among […]

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which got its start in July 2015 as a vendor-neutral home for the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration platform, is now a broader effort. On Nov. 8, the CNCF announced new members, certification, training and a new project at the inaugural Cloud Native Con, which is co-located with KubeCon in Seattle. […]

TrueOS Succeeds PC-BSD Desktop-Friendly Unix OS TrueOS offers FreeBSD users an easy-to-use desktop as well as a new release cadence. Here’s a look at the TrueOS desktop-friendly Unix OS. TrueOS Is Based on FreeBSD The TrueOS operating system is based on the latest FreeBSD 12.0-Current code branch, which is under active development. PC-BSD No More […]

Privately held security vendor Thycotic is acquiring user behavior analytics startup Cyber Algorithms. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. “We looked at finding the best cyber-security analytics technology and people, and we found it at Cyber Algorithms,” Steve Kahan, chief marketing officer at Thycotic, told eWEEK. Behavioral analytics technology is often […]

A new security conglomerate is taking shape as private equity firms Medina Capital and BC Partners announced on Nov. 4 the acquisition of security firms Cryptzone, Catbird, Easy Solutions and Brainspace. Medina Capital and BC Partners are also acquiring the colocation and data center business from CenturyLink in a related deal, valued at $2.3 billion. […]

One of the ways phishing attacks catch victims is through the use of domain names that look very similar to those of legitimate sites. On Nov. 3, DomainTools announced new PhishEye capabilities that help spot potential phishing domains. “PhishEye is our attempt to make a difference in the fight against the very nefarious and unfortunately […]

Hackers are actively scanning and attacking the cloud, according to new research from security firm Rapid7. In a first-of-its-kind study, Rapid7 deployed its own network of honeypots on the six largest clouds in the world—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Google Cloud Platform and IBM SoftLayer—to see what kind of attacks are actually […]