Sean Michael Kerner

According to a new report sponsored by Bay Dynamics, there are some critical areas of security where retailers are lacking. Ryan Stolte, co-founder and chief technology officer at Bay Dynamics, noted that there were a couple of unexpected findings and contradictions in the report. According to the report, which was conducted by Osterman Research and […]

Gaming vendor Valve is admitting that it has a problem with account theft in its Steam gaming community and is now taking steps to protect users. Whether or not the new user protections put in place by Valve are enough to protect Steam remains to be seen. “We see around 77,000 accounts hijacked and pillaged […]

Privately held startup Dispel (dispel.io) officially launched its privacy-as-a-service offering on Dec. 9, providing what it has branded as invisible connections and invisible computers to privacy-conscious users. “We have built an engine that allows us to dynamically generate unattributable, encrypted and ephemeral infrastructure using multiple cloud providers,” Ethan Schmertzler, CEO of Dispel, told eWEEK. That […]

In the dark reaches of the Internet are hundreds, if not thousands, of sites that offer users the promise of entertainment content, including TV shows, movies and music, that has been stolen from content authors. While visitors to content theft sites are hoping to get entertainment, they’re also getting something they might not be expecting—malware. […]

Containers Gain Fans: From Finance to Entertainment Worlds At the recent Tectonic Summit, the focus was on container innovations. In addition to new approaches, the CoreOS event highlighted container use cases. Why Open-Source Software Matters CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi kicked off the Tectonic Summit by reminding attendees why open-source software matters. In his view, one […]

The open-source WordPress blogging and content management system (CMS) is being updated to version 4.4, code-named Clifford. WordPress is the most popular CMS on the Web today, powering approximately 25 percent of all Websites, according to the latest survey data from w3techs. As an open-source development community, WordPress development is also growing. “There are 471 […]

Privately held security startup Tender Armor today is exiting stealth mode with the announcement of its CvvPlus credit card fraud prevention technology. On the back of almost every major credit card there is a Card Verification Value (CVV), which is a three-digit number that is used by banks and payment processors to verify payments when […]

Apple today released security updates for its desktop Mac OS X 10.11 and mobile iOS 9 operating systems. The patched security issues span all aspects of both operating systems, including networking, graphics and wireless operations. Of particular note in both the Mac OS X 10.11.2 and mobile iOS 9.2 updates is the volume of security […]

Google came out with its monthly Android security update, and once again, there is a fix for Stagefright (technically libstagefright) vulnerabilities. In total, Google is providing patches for 18 uniquely identified Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Google first committed to issue monthly Android updates in August in the aftermath of the initial disclosure around Stagefright. […]

The Linux Foundation today announced that the Open Container Initiative (OCI) has hit a major milestone in its evolution, approving a formal governance structure. The OCI was first announced in June as a way to bring together rival container efforts to create a standard that enables interoperability. Members of the OCI include Amazon Web Services, […]

With Mozilla’s recent Firefox 42 Web browser release, a new tracking protection feature became available to Mozilla’s users. Now Mozilla is extending its protections even further with the new Focus by Firefox app, which is available now in the Apple App Store as a free content blocker for iOS 9 users running the Safari Web […]

In the world of virtualized application containers, security is top-of-mind. At both the DockerCon EU event last month in Barcelona, Spain, as well as the Tectonic Summit last week in New York City, the big news was all security-related. While there is no shortage of container security news, there is still some debate about how […]