Sean Michael Kerner

Modern cyber-crime is often conducted by well-organized groups, with sophisticated tactics and the potential to perpetrate fraud at scale. Security firm FireEye issued a new report on April 20 detailing the operations of one such financial cyber-crime group, which it dubbed FIN6. “The report talks through how the FIN6 activity fits into broader e-crime activity […]

Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Debuts With Support Until 2021 The latest long-term support release of one of the most popular Linux distributions brings new package management, container and file system capabilities. LTS Release Means Five Years of Support The Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus operating system is a long-term support release, with both desktop and server editions […]

Oracle released its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) on April 20, providing its users with patches for 136 flaws spread across Oracle’s software portfolio. Oracle’s namesake database server is being patched for a total of five new security vulnerabilities, two of which are remotely exploited without user authentication. The Fusion Middleware suite fares somewhat worse […]

Security vendor Anomali today announced a new $30 million Series C round of funding, bringing total funding to date for the company to $56 million since it was launched in 2013. Anomali will use the new round of funding—which was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and includes investments from General Catalyst Partners, GV (formerly […]

Security vendor Bugcrowd today announced that it has closed a new $15 million Series B funding round, bringing total financing to date for the company up to $24 million. The new funding round is led by Blackbird Ventures and includes the participation of Costanoa Venture Capital, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures and Salesforce […]

Red Hat released today OpenStack Platform 8, providing users of its commercially supported cloud technology with new features and integrated cloud management capabilities. The OSP 8 release is also at the core of the new Dell Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Version 5.0 update debuting today, a co-engineered offering with a reference hardware architecture. Red Hat […]

Attackers are likely using a new tool to build phishing malware campaigns against reporters and human rights activities across Asia, according to security firm Arbor Networks. In a new report about the tool, dubbed the Four-Element Sword Engagement, Arbor reveals the tactics and technologies the attackers are employing. Arbor concluded that at least 12 attack […]

After working at Trend Micro for the past two years as the company’s chief security officer, Tom Kellermann moved to become the CEO of Strategic Cyber Ventures in February. Now after three months on the job, Kellermann is revealing his firm’s first investment, with deception technology vendor TrapX. SCV is investing $5 million into TrapX […]

Searching on Google.com might be dangerous—don’t take my word for it, take Google’s. The search giant’s own Transparency Report for Google.com gives itself a current rating of “partially dangerous.’” The reason for the “partially dangerous” status? According to the report, “Some pages on google.com contain deceptive content right now.” Google’s Safe Browsing technology scans Websites […]

Verodin emerged from stealth mode today with a new platform that measures the effectiveness of security personnel and technologies. The startup has raised $3.1 million in funding to date, with Cisco Investments, among the company’s backers. Christopher Key, co-founder and CEO of Verodin, also founded security vendor Enira Technologies, which ArcSight acquired in 2006. “When […]

When it comes to protecting data centers against security threats, it’s important to not only know what the threats are, but also where weaknesses and paths to exploitation exist. Illumio today is announcing a new effort called the Attack Surface Assessment Program (ASAP) that aims to help identify areas of an IT infrastructure that need […]

Tax filing-related fraud schemes are on the rise this year, with attackers making use of all manner of download, email and phone scams in an attempt to defraud taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service has been warning taxpayers since February of a 400 percent rise in phishing and malware incidents this tax season. It’s a trend […]