Sean Michael Kerner

Although industry watchers’ eyes were on Apple’s iPhone and iPad announcements on March 21, on the same day, the company released a series of important security updates for its mobile and desktop operating systems. Of particular note is a high-impact vulnerability in Apple’s Messages app that is now fixed in both the OS X 10.11.4 […]

Apple and the U.S. Department of Justice were supposed to have a high-stakes courtroom date today, which is being delayed as the government is now trying to get what it needs from a terrorist’s iPhone without the tech giant’s court-mandated help. Apple is publicly opposing a court order to help unlock an encrypted county-owned iPhone […]

Facing multiple Android security challenges in March so far, Google is issuing an unprecedented mid-month emergency patch update. The emergency patch is not, however, related to reports of a new Stagefright flaw but, rather, is a known Linux kernel vulnerability that Google was scheduled to fix. Android Security Advisory 2016-03-18 is an out-of-band update for […]

GoDaddy, one of the largest domain registrars and shared hosting providers, is jumping into the cloud market with a new OpenStack-powered public cloud service. The move toward a public OpenStack cloud service has been several years in the making at GoDaddy. In 2014, GoDaddy expanded its services offering to include a new Pro-level service tier, […]

Different venture capitalists work in different ways, each having their own focus and objectives when it comes to finding technology companies they want to back. Peter Levine, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, is looking for a few key things—and this does not include how hot a given technology is in the market today. Levine provided […]

In February, security vendor Comodo was publicly identified by Google Project Zero security researchers as having multiple vulnerabilities. In a video interview with eWEEK, Melih Abdulhayoglu,CEO and chief security architect of Comodo, explained how he wants to work with security researchers like those at Google and why it’s a good thing, when done right. “It’s […]

As container use grows, there is an increasing need to understand from a security perspective what is actually running in a container. That’s the goal of CoreOS’ Clair container security project, which officially hits the 1.0 milestone today, in an effort to help organizations validate container application security. Clair was first announced in November 2015 […]

The second day of the annual Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) Pwn2own browser-hacking competition on March 17 went much like the first day, with researchers once more showing new zero-day vulnerabilities in modern Web browsers. On the first day of Pwn2own, $282,500 in prize money was awarded and on the second day, $177,500 was won, bringing […]

Study Finds Most Software Vulnerabilities Have Patches Within One Day Although the total number of vulnerabilities continues to rise, new research finds that most are not zero-day risks. More than 16,000 Vulnerabilities Reported in 2015 Across the 1,484 products from 263 vendors that Secunia Research examined in 2015, there were 16,801 vulnerabilities. Most Vulnerabilities Receive […]

A best practice for IT security has long been to deploy some form of gateway security, be it a firewall or an intrusion prevention system that is able to block potentially malicious traffic coming into or coming out of a network. But how does an organization know for sure if its security gateway is, in […]

The annual Pwn2own browser-hacking competition at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, started March 16 with $282,500 awarded in first-day prizes. Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Trend Micro are jointly sponsoring this year’s Pwn2own event. As part of the first day, a group of researchers identified as the 360Vulcan Team were the big winners, walking away […]

In September 2014, news first broke that somehow attackers were able to get access to private pictures of a number of high-profile Hollywood celebrities stored in Apple’s iCloud service. While justice isn’t always swift, on March 15, the U.S Department of Justice announced that it has charged 36-year-old Ryan Collins of Lancaster, Pa., in connection […]