Sean Michael Kerner

The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Euro 2016 soccer event concluded on Sunday night with Portugal’s thrilling victory over host country France. It was a monthlong tournament, and over the course of UEFA Euro 2016, fans across Europe not only increased their mobile usage but also their exposure to mobile threats, according to research […]

Not all the code in advanced persistent threats is unique, and they do not necessarily use new zero-day exploits. In fact, security firm Cymmetria discovered a new APT that is a patchwork of code that has been copied and pasted from other known threats and online forums. Cymmetria released a report on the APT, dubbed […]

In January, quick-serve restaurant chain the Wendy’s Co. first publicly admitted it was investigating claims that an unspecified number of its locations were the victims of a data breach. Nearly seven months later, after several attempts at quantifying the impact of the breach, Wendy’s is now reporting that 1,025 of its U.S. locations were affected […]

Two well-known vendors in the consumer antivirus space are coming together, as Avast has announced it is acquiring rival AVG Technologies for $1.3 billion. When the deal closes, the combined company will be protecting more than 400 million endpoints around the world. Under the terms of the deal, privately held Avast will pay $25 for […]

Google released its largest Android security update ever, with Qualcomm driver-related flaws topping the list of 108 different vulnerabilities. The July Android update far exceeds any past Android update in terms of the total number of vulnerabilities, and it introduces a new two bundle patch set approach to help accelerate the overall patching process. The […]

Technology startup Veriflow announced on July 6 that it has raised $8.2 million in a Series A round of funding, in a bid to accelerate its platform that enables organizations to mathematically verify network configurations and security. The Series A round of funding was led by Menlo Ventures and included the participation of New Enterprise […]

Container security vendor Twistlock announced on July 6 that it has raised a $10 million Series A round of funding led by TenEleven Ventures with the participation of Rally Ventures and YL Ventures. Twistlock’s Container Security Suite became generally available in November 2015, providing container users with runtime security for container applications. In a video […]

A month ago, Frank Karlitschek, founder of the ownCloud project, forked the code to create a new company called Nextcloud. Now in its first platform release the company’s technology is getting enterprise support. In keeping with ownCloud’s numbering, the new release is Nextcloud 9, though the release brings more than what is available in the […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued charges against another individual in the September 2014 hack of Apple iCloud and Google Gmail accounts owned by Hollywood celebrities. In a statement issued July 1, the DOJ named 28-year-old Edward Majerczyk as one of the hackers involved in the so-called “Celebgate” breach, gaining unauthorized access to more […]

The Internet of things movement has given rise to a new era of connected, vulnerable devices that are being assembled to enable a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Security firm Arbor Networks is reporting that it has discovered a botnet made up of IoT devices attacking institutions in Brazil with up to 400G bps of […]

Red Hat Summit Advocates the Power of Participation The Linux vendor’s annual event brings news, partners and insight into how an open collaborative model can change this planet and even the worlds beyond. The Power of Participation The theme of Red Hat Summit 2016 was the power of participation, which was visibly demonstrated onstage with […]

Linux Mint 18 Brings Mint-Y Theme to Linux Desktop The major release of the popular desktop Linux distribution follows the Linux Mint 17.3 update and will benefit from long-term support until 2021. Linux Mint 18 Is Code-Named Sarah As has long been the case with Linux Mint releases, the new release has a female code […]