Sean Michael Kerner

Understanding the security of both enterprise- and cloud-based data is critical to managing risk. That’s where Gurucul’s new Hybrid Behavior Analytics (HBA) technology is aiming to help, providing visibility and analytics across both cloud and enterprise assets. In the market today many User Behavior Analytics (UBA) vendors are focused on the enterprise side of data, […]

Fileless Memory Infection, Macro Malware on the Rise: McAfee Labs While rootkits and ransomware are on the decline, other forms of malware are continuing to grow, McAfee Labs’ most recent Threats Report finds. Macro Malware Returns Macro malware was a relatively small issue at the end of 2013, but that has changed in the last […]

In a perfect world, security researchers would be able to find bugs in software, report them to vendors, get paid for their efforts and everyone would be happy. While that’s precisely how security reporting works in some cases, the information security world is far from perfect as an incident this week with Facebook’s Instagram unit […]

Networking vendor Juniper reported on Dec. 17 that it discovered multiple security issues in its ScreenOS network security operating system, including backdoor access code. “During a recent internal code review, Juniper discovered unauthorized code in ScreenOS that could allow a knowledgeable attacker who can monitor VPN [virtual private network] traffic to decrypt that traffic,” Juniper […]

At the heart of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency is blockchain, technology used to help keep track of and verify transactions. The blockchain idea, however, has the potential for broad applicability beyond just cryptocurrencies, and on Dec. 17 a new Linux Foundation effort is being launched to advance the state of blockchain technology. The Open Ledger Project […]

Point-of-sale (POS) malware has been a concern for retailers for several years now, especially following the Target breach in late 2013. POS malware is evolving further with the emergence of the Pro POS tool, according to a new report from Cisco’s Talos research team. Pro POS is designed to be a professional tool for enabling […]

Data loss prevention security vendor Digital Guardian has raised $66 million in a Series D round of new funding, bringing total funding to date to $126 million. The new funding comes from multiple investors, including GE Pension Trust (advised by GE Asset Management), Fairhaven Capital Partners, Loring Wolcott & Coolidge, Special Situation Funds, Brookline Venture […]

Linux Mint 17.3 Stabilizes Cinnamon Desktop The final Linux Mint update for 2015, code-named “Rosa,” focuses on stability and further enhancing the desktop user experience. Linux Mint 17.3 Is Based on Ubuntu 14.04 As is the case with previous iterations of Linux Mint 17, the 17.3 update is based on Ubuntu 14.04 Linux. As a […]

Mozilla came out today with its open-source Firefox 43 browser release, giving users a number of security enhancements and patching vulnerabilities. The Firefox 43 release is likely the last Mozilla Firefox release for 2015 and follows the Firefox 42 release that debuted on Nov. 2. A key feature that debuted in the Firefox 42 release […]

Barely three weeks after the first public disclosure about a massive data breach at toy vendor VTech, an arrest related to the incident has been made. Law enforcement officials from the United Kingdom’s South East Regional Organized Crime Unit (Serocu) publicly announced the arrest this morning of a 21-year-old male in Bracknell, 32 miles west […]

Having insight into what is running inside a Docker container, along with logging capabilities, is crucial for enabling enterprises to deploy containers at scale in a secure manner. Today, security vendor Rapid7 is announcing that it is now a Docker Inc. Ecosystem Technology Partner, bringing a new Docker Insights Dashboard to the market to help […]

IT professionals are inundated on a daily basis with security advisories, but making sense of it all and understanding the impact is a challenge—a challenge that Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team is aiming to help solve with the official launch Dec. 14 of the openVuln API. The new API builds on Cisco PSIRT efforts […]