Sean Michael Kerner

Marten Mickos first made a name for himself as the CEO of a pair of successful open-source vendors—MySQL and Eucalyptus Systems, both of which have been acquired. Now he’s the CEO of security vendor HackerOne, and at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit keynote on March 29, Mickos publicly apologized for the early security shortcomings of […]

Rancher Labs today announced the general availability of its namesake platform Rancher 1.0, which provides tools that enable organizations to easily manage and deploy Docker containers. Officially started in September 2014, Rancher Labs has raised $10 million in funding to date. In a June 2015 video interview with eWEEK, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, […]

Infection Data Shows Rise in Mobile Malware Development The latest Intel Security McAfee Labs Threats Report paints a mixed picture of security threats, with some on the rise and others slowing. New Malware Hits 42 Million Samples The fourth quarter of 2015 marked the reversal of a trend that McAfee Labs had reported for the […]

A new zero-day exploit against Apple’s iOS mobile operating system enables an attacker to bypass a security lockout feature that will erase the device’s contents after 10 unsuccessful passcode tries. The group taking credit for the new zero-day is none other than the FBI. As reported on eWEEK yesterday, the FBI has ended its legal […]

Mobile penetration testing firm Shevirah is getting new executive leadership as the company positions itself for a big enterprise push. Mark Longworth, known in the security industry as the inventor of the NetWitness technology, which was acquired by RSA in 2011, is joining Shevirah as CEO. Shevirah, founded by Georgia Weidman, graduated from the Mach37 […]

As the spectacle that is the 2016 U.S. presidential primary season continues to unfold, candidates from all sides of the political spectrum are united in their widespread use of their own Websites to educate voters. Although all the candidates have Websites, not all are equal from a security perspective. So who among the remaining crop […]

When protecting an enterprise from cyber-threats, sometimes the best defense is a good offensive. The attacker approach is one that security firm FireEye is now taking with the launch of its Red Team Operations services. FireEye is well-known in the market for its portfolio of security technologies as well as its incident response capabilities, gained […]

Until today, the only practical way to run a Docker container on an Apple Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows desktop was by also running the open-source Oracle VirtualBox application. That is now changing with a new private beta effort debuting March 24 from Docker Inc. that will for the first time easily enable Docker […]

Cyber-accelerator Mach37 today announced its spring 2016 class, launching with six new security startups. Mach37 provides some initial funding to participants, as well as mentoring and training to help build security ideas and technologies into real companies. In a video interview with eWEEK, Rick Gordon, managing partner of Mach37, provides insight into the new class, […]

The U.S. government is taking direct legal aim at seven Iranian individuals for attacking American banks and infrastructure. The Department of Justice today announced that an indictment was issued by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York for attacks that include a 176-day distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaign against the U.S. financial sector, […]

Love it or hate it, email remains a must-have tool in the modern Internet, though email isn’t always as secure as it should be. When users connect to email servers, those connections have the potential to be intercepted by attackers, so there is a need for standards, like the new SMTP Strict Transport Security (STS) […]

There is a new branded security vulnerability known as Badlock on the horizon, complete with its own Website and logo. Badlock is a currently unknown vulnerability in the open-source Samba project that enables interoperability for file and folder sharing between Linux and Windows environments. Full disclosure and a patch on the Badlock vulnerability is currently […]