Sean Michael Kerner

Mobile security vendor Zimperium announced on June 7 that it raised $25 million in a Series C round of funding, bringing total funding to date for the company up to $43.5 million. The company will use the new funding to expand its global operations and invest in new technology development. Zimperium was founded in 2010 […]

Firefox 47, which Mozilla released on June 7, provides users of the open-source Web browser with a baker’s dozen security updates and a number of incremental feature improvements. A core focus for Firefox 47’s feature improvements come in the form of video enablement, including support for Google’s VP9 video codec. Additionally, Firefox will now play […]

Hackers are using fake phishing domains to trick Apple users into giving up their Apple ID credentials, according to a new report from FireEye. Since the beginning of 2016, FireEye has tracked a number of phishing campaigns targeted against Apple users. The phishing campaigns all include some form of a lure to trick unsuspecting users […]

Startup Karamba Security on June 6 debuted its flagship Carwall security platform, designed to help protect cars, old and new, from potential cyber-attacks. The Carwall platform is aimed at securing vehicles’ electronic control units (ECUs), which could be exposed externally to threats. Karamba’s approach to protecting the ECU has multiple elements, including technology that helps […]

How OPSEC Can Improve Enterprise Security Operational security is a way to help organizations of all sizes understand and organize the processes necessary to protect their networks and data. Overcoming Adversary OPSEC Starts With Detection A primary goal of most attackers is to avoid detection while maintaining the availability of their attack infrastructure. For defenders, […]

In its June Android update, released on June 7, Google has fixed 40 vulnerabilities, eight of which are rated critical. Once again, the security update includes a familiar set of flaws, with media server issues and Qualcomm drivers topping the list. In fact, six of the eight critical issues were found in Qualcomm drivers: CVE-2016-2062, […]

For the last 11 years, Dan Goldin has been working in stealth building his new company called KnuEdge with the promise of delivering a new era of computing innovation. Those years of working in stealth is in stark contrast to the decade Goldin spent (from 1992 to 2001) as the administrator of NASA, leading the […]

The scourge that is ransomware is spreading in the manufacturing sector, according new research from Fortinet. Over the course of seven months, from Oct. 1, 2015, to April 30, 2016, Fortinet recorded 8.63 million attempted attacks against 59 manufacturers around the world. The attacks were mostly aimed at the larger manufacturers, with 78 percent of […]

Open-source cloud file storage, sharing and synchronization vendor ownCloud Inc. is shutting down in the United States amid internal turmoil. At the same time, Frank Karlitschek, founder of the ownCloud project, is forking the code to create a new company called Nextcloud. Karlitschek started the ownCloud project in 2010 to enable users to set up […]

Last July, security firm Rapid7 had its initial public offering, an event that helped to underscore the tremendous demand for security services. While being a public company puts quarterly pressure on management to deliver results, Rapid7 President and CEO Corey Thomas emphasized in a video interview with eWEEK that going public hasn’t changed the way […]

Organizations may have a lot of different needs when it comes to detecting fraud and verifying identity. In a bid to help serve these diverse and growing needs, Experian on June 1 launched its CrossCore Fraud and Identity Services platform, which can integrate multiple sets of capabilities to help organizations protect themselves and their customers. […]

With the increasing volume of security bugs, it is more challenging than ever for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) number identification system to scale properly to assign new numbers. That’s where the new Distributed Weakness Filing system (DWF), designed to be a community-­powered supplement to CVE, could help. CVE, operated by MITRE, offers a […]