Sean Michael Kerner

Typically, software vendors provide users with some public direction or announcement on when a product will no longer be supported and reaches its end of life. Apparently, that didn’t happen with Apple’s QuickTime media player for Windows, which is now at risk from a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that will not be patched. The Zero […]

Last November, Blue Coat announced the $280 million acquisition of cloud access security broker (CASB) vendor Elastica, a move that is now paying off for the company. Blue Coat is integrating Elastica capabilities with its Secure Web Gateway products as part of an overall push to expand cloud security. Elastica’s Audit subscription service is now […]

The Linux Foundation’s Open Container Initiative (OCI) is taking a major step today, starting a project to define and ultimately standardize an open container image format specification for containers. OCI was first announced in June 2015 as an effort bringing Docker and its container rivals together with the goal of creating a standards-based approach to […]

In February 2015, security vendors Accuvant and FishNet merged to form a new company, called Optiv Security. Now, Optiv is making the first acquisition of its own, picking up identity and access management (IAM) services vendor Advancive. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time. Prior to the Advancive acquisition, […]

Vivaldi 1.0 Web Browser Makes Its Debut, Led by Opera Co-founder The new Vivaldi 1.0 browser incorporates tab and display management features long with other functions aimed at improving how users experience the Web. Opera Co-Founder Now CEO of Vivaldi Opera Software co-founder Jon von Tetzchner now leads Vivaldi, which he sees as an answer […]

It’s one thing for an enterprise to understand that it has known security vulnerabilities that need to be patched, and it’s quite another thing to actually make sure the enterprise is in fact patched for vulnerabilities. BMC Software is aiming to close the gap between security and operations with its BladeLogic Threat Director technology, providing […]

The Badlock vulnerability that affects both Microsoft Windows users as well as open-source Samba users on Linux is officially being disclosed and patched today. The Badlock vulnerability first gained notoriety, thanks to a branded Website and logo that emerged in early March, warning of flaws in Server Message Block (SMB) and Common Internet File System […]

Let’s Encrypt is officially exiting its beta stage today as the free Linux Foundation Collaborative Project hits a new milestone. The Let’s Encrypt initiative is an effort to provide free Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates to Websites in a bid to help further the adoption of encryption on the Web and improve Internet […]

Every device, no matter how small or large, has a power signature. Variation in the power signature can be used to potentially identify security risks and attacks, thanks to technology from PFP Cybersecurity. PFP is now shifting to a software strategy that enables its partners to make use of the company’s power analysis technology to […]

A decade ago, the cloud was not a computing term and Amazon was best known as an online retailer of consumer goods like books. Now the company is on track to generate $10 billion in annual revenue from its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud business. On the other side of the story is the OpenStack […]

Adobe released its monthly security patch update for Flash on April 7, five days earlier than originally planned, in order to help remediate the CVE-2016-1019 vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild. The zero-day issue is, however, only one of 24 vulnerabilities that Adobe is now patching, including four vulnerabilities first publicly demonstrated […]

On April 7, 2014, CVE-2014-0160, better known as Heartbleed, was publicly disclosed by the OpenSSL project, affecting millions of users and devices around the world. Today, two years to the day it was first reported, the vulnerability remains a risk, and the trend of branded vulnerabilities it created continues to have an impact. OpenSSL is […]