Sean Michael Kerner

In the realm of consumer products, warranties that help to guarantee that a product works and refund users when the product doesn’t work are commonplace, but such is not the case in the security software business. It’s a situation that Jeremiah Grossman, chief of security strategy at SentinelOne, is trying to change with the launch […]

Francis Brown, managing partner at security firm Bishop Fox, recently found himself watching ’80s classic film Top Gun with the Kenny Loggins soundtrack “Danger Zone” blaring in the background. Being a security researcher, Brown, rather than being motivated to become a Navy pilot, decided to build a drone that could conduct aerial penetration tests. He’s […]

On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a vulnerability in Android. A year later, it’s clear that Stagefright has had a major impact on the mobile security world—more so than other vulnerabilities in recent memory. The Stagefright flaw isn’t just a single issue even though a year ago it wasn’t entirely clear how much […]

After seven months of general availability, security vendor SafeBreach on July 26 announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series A round of funding, bringing total funding to date for the company to $19 million. SafeBreach will use the new funding help its research and development efforts as well as market expansion. SafeBreach […]

Cisco released on July 26 its 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report, showing that once again Flash remains the top path to exploitation and patching remains a challenge. According to Cisco’s analysis, exploit kits continue to rely on Flash vulnerabilities to infect victims. With the popular Nuclear exploit kit, for example, Cisco reported that 80 percent of […]

Among the popular emerging use cases for the internet of things is connected lightbulbs that users can control remotely. New research disclosed July 26 by security vendor Rapid7 reveals that it discovered numerous flaws in the Osram Lightify product lineup, which could have exposed users to risk. The company fixed most of the flaws in […]

Ransomware is a growing epidemic that is impacting users around the world, but an effort launched July 25 at NoMoreRansom.org is taking a definitive step to help reverse the trend. The No More Ransom effort is a partnership between Kaspersky Lab, Intel Security, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, the Dutch High‐Tech Crime Unit and Amazon Web […]

The challenges of modern cyber-security are complex, so complex that a supercomputer can make a big difference. That’s the hope of supercomputer vendor Cray and its partner Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services. The two announced a subscription-based Cyber Reconnaissance and Analytics service that uses the recently announced Cray Urika-GX supercomputer that can provide up to […]

With a $150 million Series A round of funding, StackPath is officially being launched today by the company’s CEO Lance Crosby as a new platform to help secure the Internet. Crosby is a well-known name in technology circles, not only founding SoftLayer Technologies but serving as its CEO from 2005 until 2013, when IBM acquired […]

Love it or hate it, Uber has helped transform many people’s lives and the way they travel in urban areas. At its core, Uber is not a taxi company; it’s a technology service, and one of its primary assets is user information. Uber recently closed a high-impact flaw in its platform that could potentially have […]

Jihadist groups like the Islamic State have made extensive use of online media, including social networking in order to communicate their message and recruit supporters. According to a new report from security firm Flashpoint Intelligence titled, “Tech for Jihad: Dissecting Jihadists’ Digital Toolbox,” the tools used are fairly sophisticated and aren’t all that different from […]

Security vendor Sift Security emerged from stealth mode on July 20 with $3.25 million in an angel round of funding and the promise of using graph database technology to enable threat hunting and incident response. At the core of Sift Security’s threat hunting and incident response platform is a graph database, which is different from […]