Sean Michael Kerner

Vehicle security vendor Karamba Security today announced new features for autonomous car security as well as a new $2.5 million round of funding. Total funding to date for Karamba now stands at $5 million from investors including Fontinalis Partners, YL Ventures and GlenRock. Karamba first announced its Carwall security platform on June 16 as a […]

Shape Security has closed a $40 million Series D round of funding, bringing total funding to date for the company to $106 million. The new funding will be used to expand the company’s sales and marketing efforts around the world. “We could have raised a lot more funding, but the guidance from our board was […]

The Open Network Insight (ONI) project, backed by Cloudera, Intel and others and focused on helping organizations use big data for security insights, became generally available earlier this year. The ONI project is now being donated to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)—home to Hadoop and many big data efforts—and is now getting a new life […]

Splunk announced the latest versions of its security technologies on Sept. 27 during the company’s .conf2016 event. Among the updated releases are Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) 4.5 and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 3.0. The new releases are designed to make it easier for enterprises to collect and identify potential security risks and incidents. “We’re […]

Aqua Security announced on Sept. 27 that it has raised $9 million in a Series A round of funding, which will be used to grow the company’s go-to-market efforts as it ramps up to capitalize on the emerging opportunity for container security. Microsoft Ventures led the Series A round of funding, which also included the […]

GNOME 3.22 Supports Flatpak Cross-Linux Distribution Framework The GNOME 3.22 update to the popular desktop environment supports the Flatpak framework, which enables developers to build a single application package that can work across multiple distributions of Linux. Flatpak Gets Integrated GNOME 3.22 supports the cross-distribution Flatpak framework, which enables software developers to build a single […]

For the most part, the Docker container phenomenon has been about Linux, with the majority of all deployments on Linux servers. But that could soon be changing as Docker Inc. today is announcing the general availability of Docker Engine on Windows Server 2016, alongside a new commercial support and distribution agreement with Microsoft. Docker containers […]

This past week, the largest-ever internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were reported, targeting popular security blogger Brian Krebs and internet service provider OVH in Europe. On Sept. 20, Krebs tweeted that his site was hit with a DDoS attack of 665G bps. A day later, on Sept. 21, Octave Klaba, founder of OVH tweeted that […]

Yahoo publicly confirmed on Sept. 22 that it was the victim of a breach that exposed the information of more than 500 million users. What wasn’t publicly disclosed is exactly how the breach occurred and the methods used by Yahoo to discover the intrusion. The obvious assumption made by many is that Yahoo was simply […]

Red Hat announced on Sept. 22 OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 as well as a new project called Open Container Initiative Daemon (OCID) in a bid to optimize enterprise container deployments in production. OpenShift Container Platform 3.3—Red Hat’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering—is the latest evolution of a product that Red Hat rebranded in July. It was formerly […]

After nearly two months of speculation, Yahoo at 2:28 p.m. ET on Sept. 22 confirmed what many had suspected—the company was the victim of a massive data breach. The breach, which was initially alleged to affect 200 million accounts, in fact, impacted at least 500 million user accounts, according to Yahoo. Additionally, the breach was […]

In October 2014, as part of the Firefox 34 beta release, Mozilla introduced its Firefox Hello communications technology enabling users to make calls directly from the browser. On Sept. 20, 2016, Mozilla formally removed support for Firefox Hello as part of the new Firefox 49 release. The Mozilla Bugzilla entry for the removal of Firefox […]