Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 became generally available Nov. 3 after being in beta since September. The new release is the first major update to Red Hat’s flagship platform since RHEL 7.2 debuted a year ago. Among the improvements made in RHEL 7.3 are a series of enhancements to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux). In a […]

A foundational element of the Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificate system is that browser vendors need to trust the certificate authorities that issue certificates. For China-based CA WoSign, that trust has been lost and, as a result, hundreds of thousands of sites could have trouble in 2017 as Google, Microsoft and Mozilla will […]

Belkin’s WEMO internet of things devices, widely deployed in homes around the world, until this week were at risk from a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities, which security firm Invincea reported, are set to be detailed in a Black Hat Europe session on Nov. 4 titled, “Breaking BHAD: Abusing Belkin Home Automation Devices.” Scott […]

Dimitri Stiliadis co-founded software-defined networking (SDN) vendor Nuage Networks in 2011 in a bid to help organizations improve agility and security via network isolation. In the container world, however, network isolation alone isn’t always enough to provide security, which is why Stiliadis founded Aporeto in August 2015. On Nov. 1, Aporeto announced its open-source Trireme […]

As of Nov. 1, network security vendor SonicWall is no longer part of Dell and is now privately owned by Francisco Partners and Elliot Management. Dell had acquired SonicWall in 2012 but divested the business along with Quest Software as part of the larger Dell EMC integration. As part of the divestiture from Dell, SonicWall […]

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system has increasingly become a target of hackers in 2016, as attackers attempt to exploit banks. Security vendor TrapX is now helping banks that use SWIFT to mitigate the risk of attack via deception technology. The objective of TrapX’s deception technology platform is to trick attackers into […]

In the early days of OpenStack back in 2010 when the project was first getting started, Ubuntu Linux was typically the default reference implementation for all deployments. Canonical and Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has been a vocal advocate for OpenStack throughout the project’s history, though he still has his fair share of criticism as […]

Security is such a critical element of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform that there is an entire project—the OpenStack Security project—dedicated to the task of helping protect OpenStack technologies. In a well-attended session at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, Spain, on Oct. 27, Rob Clark, the project technical leader of the OpenStack Security project, detailed […]

OpenStack Summit Showcases Interoperability Strides Here’s a look at key takeaways from the summit. Executives from the OpenStack Foundation pledged that the work of OpenStack will continue for many years to come. OpenStack Gets a New Logo The OpenStack logo and branding was created in 2010 and now it is time for a refresh. Mark […]

BARCELONA, Spain—When OpenStack got started in 2010, it was a relatively small effort with only two companies involved. Over the last six years, that situation has changed dramatically with OpenStack now powering telecom, retail and scientific cloud computing platforms for some of the largest organizations in the world. At the OpenStack Summit here this week, […]

At the 2016 mobile Pwn2Own event, held on Oct. 26 in Tokyo, security researchers were able to exploit devices that vendors had fully patched. In total, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) awarded $215,000 to researchers for security flaws in an Android Nexus 6P and an Apple iPhone 6S “We’re always pleasantly surprised by the […]

BARCELONA—A keynote highlight on Oct. 26 at the OpenStack Summit here was a live, onstage demonstration with 16 OpenStack vendors, all showing a degree of interoperability. The demonstration was part of an interoperability challenge, though, according to Boris Renski, co-founder of Mirantis and member of the OpenStack board of directors, the infrastructure layer is not […]