Sean Michael Kerner

Hotel chains are now clearly in hackers’ sights as Hilton publicly disclosed on Nov. 24 that it is the victim of a cyber-attack. Hilton Worldwide is the second major hotel chain this month to disclose a data breach, joining Starwood Hotels and Resorts, which revealed it had suffered breaches across 54 locations. Hilton is not […]

As Americans prepare for the spending bonanza that is Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many will choose to use mobile payment apps. However, according to Bluebox Security, many of those consumers might want to think twice about doing so, as security in at least 10 popular apps across Apple iOS and Google Android isn’t what […]

Dell is back-pedaling today after it was revealed that the PC giant has been shipping a number of its laptops with a preinstalled, self-signed root certificate authority called eDellRoot. The impact of this is that users could be left at risk from attackers, potentially enabling information theft. Dell is now responding to the issue by […]

Android mobile malware is able to infiltrate user devices in many ways and, according to security firm Zscaler, adult apps are one such path to infection. Zscaler has identified a pair of adult-themed apps that are infecting users with malware; neither app, however, is hosted on the official Google Play Android app store. “We regularly […]

Starwood Hotels and Resorts reported that it was the victim of data breaches affecting its properties in the United States and Canada. Starwood owns the Sheraton, Westin, St. Regis and W hotel brands. Different Starwood hotels were affected for varying periods of time, with the earliest breach likely occurring on Nov. 5, 2014, at the […]

Over the years, many vendors and security researchers have attempted to put a price on the value of a vulnerability. In some cases when bug bounties have been paid out, there has been transparency, while in others, the amounts have been shrouded in secrecy. This week, vulnerability acquisition firm Zerodium published its list for what […]

An unfortunate reality of the times we live in is the fact that any large gathering of people is potentially at risk from those with ill intentions. Efforts to secure airports through technology are well-known, and now one of the most advanced physical security systems ever invented, the Qylur Qylatron Entry Experience Solution, is being […]

Mark Davis is no stranger to the world of virtualization storage. From 2007 until 2013, Davis was CEO of storage virtualization vendor Virsto, which he sold to VMware. Now Davis is once again in the storage virtualization space, this time as CEO of Docker storage startup ClusterHQ. In a video interview with eWEEK, Davis details […]

Container Security, Management Advances Grab DockerCon EU Spotlight New security and management tools highlighted the big container developer event, as developers, users and vendors gathered to share what they are doing with Docker. DockerCon EU Remembers the Paris Victims The DockerCon EU event started off on a somber note, with Docker founder and CTO Solomon […]

Red Hat today released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (RHEL 7.2), the latest milestone update to its flagship operating system platform. RHEL 7.2 is the second major update for RHEL in 2015 and follows the RHEL 7.1 milestone that debuted in March. While RHEL 7.2 has been in beta since September, Red Hat first began […]

There are a lot of vendors with different security technologies, any one of which might be helpful to an enterprise’s cloud security aspirations. The goal of security startup Avanan is to enable enterprises to easily make use of any one—or multiple—security technology and apply it to cloud usage. Gil Friedrich, co-founder and CEO of Avanan, […]

Docker Inc., the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Docker container application virtualization technology, is not yet profitable, but it will be sooner rather than later, according to CEO Ben Golub. In a video interview at the DockerCon EU conference in Barcelona, Spain, Golub details the commercial model behind Docker and why it’s not a […]