Sean Michael Kerner

Since the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, the basic protocol for any type of voice communication has been that the receiver needs to pick up the phone in order to start the call. That basic premise has carried forward to the digital age, but it’s one that has now been […]

Nginx was once perhaps best known as an open-source web server, but that’s now only one of many things that Nginx Inc. is developing and supporting for customers. Nginx provides a suite of web application delivery services and capabilities, with the company’s Nginx Controller, which was first announced in 2017, at the core of an […]

Jan. 28 is Data Privacy Day—a day to raise awareness about how the things and services we interact with online and in person collect data and what organizations and end users can do to limit risks. Data Privacy Day is not a new event, but incidents that occurred in the past year have perhaps made […]

Time and again, security experts and vendors alike will recommend to organizations and end users to keep software and systems updated with the latest patches.  But what happens when the application infrastructure that is supposed to deliver those patches itself is at risk? That’s what open-source and Linux users were faced with this past week […]

The U.S. government is warning of a potentially disastrous cyber-security attack targeting DNS infrastructure. Domain Name System (DNS) is the technology that translates numerical Internet Protocol (IP) addresses into web domains, such as eWEEK.com. DNS servers direct traffic to the correct location for a given domain; the risk is that if DNS is tampered with, […]

When it comes to implementing data privacy and meeting compliance requirements, organizations shouldn’t think of it as a cost but rather as an opportunity to grow the business.  That’s a key finding in the Cisco 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, released on Jan. 24. The report is based on a global study of more than […]

Phishing remains an active threat vector with the volume of attacks growing, according Proofpoint’s 2019 State of the Phish report, released on Jan. 24. In a phishing attack, a hacker aims to trick a user into clicking on some form of malicious link that is hidden with an email. The study found that in 2018, […]

Apple released its first security updates of 2019 on Jan. 22, providing patches for multiple vulnerabilities across its iOS mobile and macOS desktop operating systems. The new updates include iOS 12.1.3 for Apple’s iPhone and iPad mobile devices, watchOS 5.1.3 for the Apple Watch and Security Update 2019-001 for macOS High Sierra. The patched vulnerabilities include […]

StackRox announced the 2.4 release of its Container Security Platform on Jan. 23, providing organizations with enhanced capabilities to help secure cloud-native Kubernetes environments. Among the improvements that landed in StackRox Container Security Platform 2. update are multi-factor risk profiling capabilities that deliver insight into potential security issues within Kubernetes clusters. Network policy management gets […]

Varonis Systems announced version 7.0 of its Data Security Platform on Jan. 22, providing organizations with new capabilities to detect and respond to threats in the cloud and on-premises. The Varonis Data Security Platform 7.0 update adds new risk dashboards that can help highlight potential issues with Active Directory and Office 365, as well as […]

There is no shortage of software vulnerabilities, but not all flaws have equal severity and only a subset must be patched immediately. That’s one of the core themes from a report released by Kenna Security and the Cyentia Institute on Jan. 22, titled “Prioritization to Prediction: Getting Real About Remediation.” The report analyzed 3 billion […]

Red Hat announced the 1.0 release of its open-source Podman project on Jan. 17, which provides a fully featured container engine. In Podman 1.0, Red Hat has integrated multiple core security capabilities in an effort to enable organizations run containers securely. Among the security features are rootless containers and enhanced user namespace support for better […]