Sean Michael Kerner

Although there is near-uniform agreement in the C-suite that cyber-security is a key concern, top corporate executives may not be prepared to respond to cyber-threats, according to IBM’s Securing the C-Suite report, which examines security trends and attitudes of 700 C-level executives, excluding chief information security officers. More than 94 percent of the C-level executives […]

The days of hacking with impunity, without any consequences or risk of penalty, may one day soon come to an end. A case in point is the rapid apprehension of an alleged suspect in the hacker attack against the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last week. Less than […]

Linux users today are scrambling to patch a critical flaw in the core glibc open-source library that could be exposing systems to a remote code execution risk. The glibc vulnerability is identified as CVE-2015-7547 and is titled, “getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow.” The glibc, or GNU C Library, is an open-source implementation of the C and […]

LibreOffice 5.1 Offers Reorganized User Interface for Its Apps LibreOffice 5.1, the latest iteration of the widely deployed open-source office suite, adds new user interface elements. We examine highlights of the release. LibreOffice 5.1 Provides a Full Office Suite With LibreOffice 5.1, the open-source office suite provides a reorganized user interface for its applications, including […]

Netflix has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular sources for online entertainment, and it is now also a popular target for hackers, according to new research from Symantec. Symantec has discovered several Netflix-related attacks, including one involving malicious fake Netflix apps. The apps do lead victims to the Netflix Website, but […]

Modern enterprises face a lot of different types of threats, including security risks and vulnerabilities in the third-party vendor technologies they use. It’s a challenge that Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO and co-founder of SecurityScorecard, is tackling head on with his company’s new Automated Vendor Detection (AVD) capability that can identify and rate the security of vendors […]

The annual Pwn2Own browser hacking competition that takes place at the CanSecWest conference is one of the premier security events in any given year, as security researchers attempt to demonstrate in real time zero-day exploits against modern Web browsers. This year there was initial concern that the event wouldn’t happen, as the Zero Day Initiative […]

Security vendor Hexadite has raised $8 million in a Series A round of funding, which included the participation of Hewlett Packard Ventures, Ten Eleven Ventures and YL Ventures. Hexadite plans to use the new funding to grow its sales and marketing efforts and to help advance its automated security incident response platform, which first debuted […]

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is gearing up for another busy tax season, and it appears that hackers are getting ready, too. On Feb. 9, the IRS confirmed that it was the victim of an automated attack in January that targeted the electronic filing PIN application form on the IRS.gov Website. According to the […]

Hackers going after banks is not a new trend, but according to a new report from the IBM, financial services attackers are using different tools and tactics to steal information and money. The IBM X-Force research found that in 2015, the average cost for a breached financial record was $215, with approximately 20 million financial […]

Gur Shatz, founder and former CEO of security vendor Incapsula, spent years building cloud-based Web application firewall technology. Now, as the CTO of startup Cato Networks, he is building a cloud-delivered security-as-a-service platform. At the helm of Cato Networks is CEO Shlomo Kramer, who is well-known in the information security community, both as an investor […]

Network security vendor Infoblox is expanding its capabilities by way of a $45 million acquisition of privately held cyber-threat intelligence vendor IID. The deal will provide Infoblox with new security features that address the growing threat intelligence needs to help protect network security. Infoblox is what is known as a DDI—DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP […]