Sean Michael Kerner

Open-source organization Mozilla wants the FBI to reveal details about software flaws that might impact its Firefox Web browser. Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Mozilla’s chief legal and business officer, is optimistic that a legal challenge will be successful and help Mozilla protect its own users. Security experts contacted by eWEEK, however, had mixed opinions on Mozilla’s legal […]

CoreOS Fest Showcases New Projects to Advance Containers The developer event highlights new funding for CoreOS and the launch of new projects to advance the state of container delivery, networking and security. CoreOS Raises $28M in New Funding Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, announced a new $28 million Series B round of funding for his […]

This past week was another busy week for security research and statistical reports covering a diverse array of topics, including phone fraud, patching levels, mobile apps and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) costs. Duo Security in a May 10 report found that 25 percent of all Windows devices are running outdated and unsupported versions of Internet Explorer. […]

At the end of January, the first reports publicly emerged about a possible point-of-sale (POS) data breach at an undisclosed number of locations affiliated with the Wendy’s Company and its chain of quick-serve restaurants. On May 11, as part of Wendy’s fiscal 2016 first-quarter financial report, the company officially confirmed that some of its locations […]

Container networking vendor Weaveworks revealed on May 11 that it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding, led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and including the participation of Accel. The new financing brings Weaveworks’ total funding to date to $20 million. Weaveworks raised $5 million in its Series A […]

In a bid to improve the state of security education, Facebook on May 11 open-sourced its Capture the Flag platform. Among the most popular forms of security contests today is one known as a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. In a typical CTF event, teams compete against each other in a bid to be the […]

Rancher Labs announced a $20 million Series B round of funding, bringing total financing to date to $30 million. The funding round was led by GRC SinoGreen and included the participation of Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners Rancher Labs officially started up in September 2014 and raised $10 million in its initial funding round in […]

BERLIN—The Linux kernel is a fast moving project, and it’s important for both users and developers to quickly update to new releases to remain up-to-date and secure. That was the keynote message Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the stable Linux kernel, delivered at CoreOS Fest on May 9 here. Kroah-Hartman is a luminary in the Linux […]

Among the big pieces of news that Docker Inc. announced at its DockerCon EU conference in November 2015 was its Project Nautilus effort to scan Docker repositories for security vulnerabilities. Now six months later, the company is making Nautilus generally available under the product name Docker Security Scanning. And Docker is complementing the new security […]

Interop 2016 Highlights the Evolution of Network Infrastructure The long running conference highlights a transformation in interoperability and network infrastructure. Infrastructure Is Still Alive A core element of Interop has long been network hardware infrastructure. Over the last few years in particular, it’s a market that has been disrupted by new trends such as network-functions […]

In a May 6 session at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Andy Ellis, chief security officer of Akamai, delivered a talk about security in the cloud. There are a lot of misconceptions about cloud security in Ellis’ view, and there are also a number of opportunities. In a video interview, Ellis details what his […]

BERLIN–At the CoreOS Fest event here, CoreOS is announcing a new $28 million round funding, bringing total funding to date to $48 million. In addition to the new funding, CoreOS is unveiling multiple new efforts, including a new version of its etcd distributed key store, BitTorrent-based container image pulls with QuayCTL and JWTproxy technology as […]