Sean Michael Kerner

Mitaka, the first OpenStack cloud platform release of 2016, is now out after six months of development and the participation of a global community of 2,336 developers from 293 organizations. OpenStack Mitaka is the 13th release from the open-source cloud effort, which Rackspace and NASA began in June 2010. The OpenStack community has grown significantly, […]

OpenStack vendor Mirantis has scored a big win, landing automobile giant Volkswagen Group as a new cloud customer. The auto giant will use Mirantis OpenStack cloud technology across all of its brands, including Audi, VW, Porsche, Bentley and Skoda, to enable a more agile DevOps model for building applications that support customers and partners around […]

Exploit Kits Power a Rise in Creation of Malicious Domains The 4Q15 Infoblox DNS Threat Index shows a dramatic increase in malicious domains, powered in part by exploit kits. First DNS Threat Index Authored Solely by Infoblox While the DNS Threat Index was first released in July 2015, in the past it was a joint […]

Adobe has a monthly patch cycle that becomes generally available on the second Tuesday of any given month—the same day as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. That won’t be the case this month, however, as Adobe is accelerating its process to deal with a new zero-day flaw in its Adobe Flash Player that is already being exploited […]

Before NASA launches a spacecraft or Intel puts a new chip into fabrication, an industrial process known as “formal verification” is necessary to guarantee that everything will work as it should. Security startup Veriflow, which emerged from stealth mode today, aims to bring formal verification to network security. Veriflow is launching with a $2.9 million […]

Another month and Google is once again patching its libstagefright (Stagefright) media library in Android. Google’s April patch update for Android was officially announced on April 4, providing 39 security patches, 15 of which are rated by Google as being critical. Among the critical patches is CVE-2016-0842, which is a remote code execution vulnerability in […]

Using big data to collect network events in an effort to help improve security is not a new concept, but it is evolving. Part of the evolution is coming by way of the open-source Open Network Insight (ONI) project, which has been generally available for just over a month and is already being used by […]

In 2011, Simon Crosby helped found security vendor Bromium, with the promise of enabling what is known in computer science as Byzantine fault tolerance. In computer science, the Byzantine fault tolerance concept describes a system that is able to survive multiple and arbitrary forms of attack or failure of its component parts. Now five years […]

The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance is gaining momentum, with eBay joining the effort and contributing a new open-source Universal Authentication Framework compliant server. FIDO is a multistakeholder initiative whose aim is to enable stronger forms of authentication for online access. The big milestone event for FIDO occurred in December 2014 when the group announced […]

GNOME 3.20 Provides Shortcuts to the Linux Desktop The latest milestone release of the open-source desktop environment provides improved features and new shortcuts to get them. Update an OS From Software Typically within Linux, an entire operating system could not be updated from within GNOME, but rather by way of a command-line tool. With the […]

Menlo Security first gained some public exposure in November 2014, when the company raised $10.5 million in a Series A round of funding for what at the time was only stealth technology. In June 2015, Menlo Security raised an additional $25 million in a Series B round as it emerged from stealth, detailing its isolation […]

Over the last three years, Steve Herrod, managing partner at General Catalyst, has taken an equity position in a number of security startups, and looked at hundreds more possible candidates. When evaluating a potential investment, determining if a technology is actually enough to build a company or if it’s actually just a feature is a […]