Sean Michael Kerner

Security vendor Cybereason is expanding its detection and analysis technology with an update that enables organizations to block threats. Cybereason has enhanced its ability to find, analyze and block ransomware attacks, which have been growing this year. Cybereason has raised $90.5 million to date, including a $59 million Series C funding round in October 2015, […]

Year after year, the Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study reports that breach costs have gone up and, once again, with the 2016 report such is the case. The average cost of a data breach is now $4 million, up from the $3.8 million in the 2015 report, according to this year’s study, which was […]

On June 20 and 21, the DockerCon conference descends on Seattle, and with it will come a multitude of vendors old and new talking about containers. Among the new vendors will be storage startup StorageOS, which will be discussing its container offerings. In a video interview with eWEEK, Chris Brandon, founder and CEO of StorageOS, […]

The open-source Snappy packaging system is moving beyond its Ubuntu Linux roots, as multiple Linux vendors and software developers are embracing it as a way to build an application once that can run on different Linux distributions. Snappy now runs on several different Linux distributions, including Arch, Debian and Fedora, with CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, […]

The Democratic National Committee revealed June 14 that it was the victim of a data breach, allegedly perpetrated by hackers from Russia looking for information on Donald Trump, presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party. The DNC called security firm CrowdStrike after suspecting it was the victim of a breach. CrowdStrike’s research revealed that one […]

VMware grew its portfolio of security products and capabilities on June 13, with the debut of the TrustPoint for endpoint security as well as new cloud access security broker (CASB) integrations with AirWatch and advances in Workspace ONE. VMware TrustPoint benefits from Tanium’s endpoint security technology, which VMware is integrating into it. Tanium is a […]

Number of DDoS Attacks Soar, but Their Duration Is Down in Q1: Akamai Akamai reported that the number of high-bandwidth DDoS attacks rose 125 percent in the Q1, but the average attack duration fell 35 percent from a year earlier. UDP fragments There are multiple DDoS attack vectors used in modern attacks, but topping the […]

Symantec is taking a major step forward with its agreement to acquire privately held security vendor Blue Coat for $4.65 billion in cash. The deal, announced June 13, is expected to close in the third quarter, at which time Greg Clark, current CEO of Blue Coat, will become the CEO of Symantec. The deal comes […]

Since 2014, security firm RiskAnalytics has been tracking the activities of a particularly virulent botnet that attackers are using on the Internet. In a new report, RiskAnalytics details how the Zbot botnet is making use of a technique known as “fast flux” to evade detection and stay alive. A botnet is a collection of compromised […]

It’s often difficult for an organization to initially fully understand the impact of a breach, and such was the case with one suffered by the Wendy’s Co. and its chain of quick-serve restaurants. On June 9, Wendy’s publicly stated that a breach that in May it first admitted happened was worse than initially reported. The […]

Crowdsource security vendor Bugcrowd released its 2016 State of Bug Bounty report on June 8, providing insight into the current state of the bug bounty marketplace. Bugcrowd launched in 2012 to help organizations run bug bounty programs that reward researchers for finding and responsibly disclosing security flaws. Although Bugcrowd has been in business for four […]

When security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated at the Black Hat 2015 conference how they hacked a Jeep remotely, they might as well have inadvertently started an entire new industry for automotive security technology. On June 8, Symantec officially announced its Anomaly Detection for Automotive product, which joins a growing list of technologies […]