Sean Michael Kerner

There is an impact that phishing and fraudulent email has on organizations of all sizes, and that impact isn’t just limited to security risks, but also to marketers. Email delivery vendor Return Path has examined the cost of phishing on marketers in a report that reveals the wider impact of phishing campaigns. According to Return […]

Security researcher Tavis Ormandy has struck again. Over that course of 2016, the Google Project Zero researcher has made security vendors around the world take note of serious vulnerabilities in their own products, and his latest target is antivirus vendor Symantec. Now, because of Ormandy’s success, some industry pundits are wondering if we are seeing […]

Business email compromise (BEC) is a growing problem, as hackers are increasingly defrauding unsuspecting organizations into sending money. In a new twist, in BEC attacks uncovered by security firm Trustwave, emails that appear to be coming from corporate CEOs are now being used to deliver malware payloads as well. “The malware payloads are a new […]

When Docker got started back in 2013, Red Hat was the first major vendor to embrace the new container approach. Now three years later, Docker containers are poised to revolutionize enterprise IT, and at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, Red Hat is emphasizing that it has built out an entire portfolio of products […]

Fedora 24 Debuts in Workstation, Cloud and Server Editions The latest milestone update of Red Hat’s community Linux distribution is available in desktop, cloud and server editions, and adds new open-source capabilities. FreeIPA I4.3 Improves Identity and Security Management As part of the Fedora 24 server release, FreeIPA 4.3 provides organizations with an identity and […]

Back in April, Verodin emerged from stealth mode, revealing to the market its new platform approach to testing security. It’s an approach that has attracted organizations and investors, with Verodin announcing June 28 that it has raised a $10 million Series A round of funding from Cisco Investments, Rally Ventures, Crosslink Capital and Blackstone. Total […]

Hackers are increasingly going after hospitals and are honing their techniques, according to a new report, titled “Anatomy of an Attack—Medical Device Hijack 2” (MEDJACK 2), from TrapX security. The MEDJACK 2 report is a follow-up to a 2015 study from TrapX that details how hackers are exploiting medical devices and facilities to steal information. […]

Security firm SentinelOne on June 27 announced that it has discovered a new variant of the CryptXXX ransomware family. The CryptXXX variant follows the demise of the rival TeslaCrypt ransomware at the end of May. The TeslaCrypt ransomware mysteriously shut down last month, and in its place other ransomware families, including CryptXXX, have been on […]

The open-source Xen Project issued a major release of its namesake virtualization hypervisor on June 23, with the debut of Xen 4.7, which incorporates live patching and other security features. Xen is the underlying hypervisor used to help enable the largest public cloud provider in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as public […]

DockerCon Showcases New Docker Release, Containers-as-a-Service Model Docker fans celebrated and learned about all things containers at the DockerCon 16 conference. Containers Are About Applications While 4,000 people came to DockerCon to learn about containers, Docker founder Solomon Hykes emphatically stated during his keynote that it’s really the applications that matters. There Are Now 460,000 […]

SEATTLE—Running Docker containers securely as part of a DevOps pipeline is a process that has many steps and requires diligence. That’s the message coming from Cem Gurkok, lead information security engineer at Salesforce, in a session at the DockerCon 16 conference here. While containers do represent a somewhat different paradigm for developers, security professionals might […]

On May 11, container networking and monitoring vendor Weaveworks announced that it had raised a $15 million Series B round of funding. At the time of the Series B news, Weaveworks Chief Operating Officer Mathew Lodge hinted at some cloud news to come, which did in fact come on June 20 with the public beta […]