Sean Michael Kerner

As a media company, Dow Jones is used to reporting on companies that have had data breaches; now it has found itself a victim of one. Today, Dow Jones admitted to being the victim of a data breach, though the impact of the breach is not all that widespread. Dow Jones is a division of […]

New AWS Services Run the Gamut From BI to IoT to Security At re:Invent, Amazon Web Services executives emphasized that the cloud is the new normal for IT as they unveiled a long list of new and upgraded services. QuickSight SPICEs Up Business Intelligence as a Service The first announcement made at the re:Invent conference […]

The Internet is not about any single cloud or service provider. When performance and security issues arise, it’s important for organizations to get a full picture of what is going on beyond the confines of a single data center or provider. That’s where Dyn‘s new Internet Intelligence software-as-a-service offering comes into play, providing visibility for […]

The open-source Xen hypervisor has the unique distinction of being the primary virtualization technology that powers most of the world’s public cloud computing capacity. That position gives the Xen project the unique opportunity to influence security in a powerful and positive way. In a video interview with eWEEK, Lars Kurth, Xen Project Advisory Board chairman, […]

The Angler Exploit Kit is one of the most pervasive and impactful exploit kits in use today—that is, until Cisco helped to shut down a large number of Angler servers this week. Cisco’s Talos research group was able to identify a number of sources for Angler-related traffic that were impacting up to 90,000 victims a […]

Security firm FireEye today is reporting on a new malicious adware attack called Kemoge that is already affecting Android users around the world. While the full impact of Kemoge has yet to be quantified, FireEye warns that it’s non-trivial. “The samples we obtained are collected from our customers, so it’s inconvenient to disclose the infection […]

With a seemingly endless stream of breaches reported over the course of the past year, it should come as no surprise that costs associated with cyber-crime are on the rise. The annual Ponemon Institute 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, came out Oct. 6, reporting that in the United States the average […]

Google isn’t wasting any time patching newly announced vulnerabilities in its Android mobile operating system. On Oct. 5, Google released its monthly Nexus update, providing a patch for the Stagefright 2.0 issues that Zimperium zLabs Vice President of Platform Research and Exploitation Joshua Drake first announced on Oct. 1. Drake disclosed two issues, CVE-2015-3876 and […]

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are launching a new Bitcoin exchange called Gemini Trust Company, with trading set to begin at 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 8. The twin Winklevoss brothers achieved notoriety back in 2009 after settling with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million over alleged intellectual-property infringement. The Winklevoss twins first sued […]

Finding and fixing flaws is one challenge, while effectively communicating security updates and risks to users is quite another. It’s a lesson that networking giant Cisco Systems is taking to heart, as it is redefining how it manages and communicates security issues from the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT). The new PSIRT efforts […]

Countless numbers of routers and Internet-connected devices around the world are not properly updated, leaving the devices, their owners and the Internet at large at risk. The risk is usually that the devices can be compromised, leading to stolen user information and further expansion of the ever growing zombie botnet ranks that attack other users. […]

Few in technology would disagree about the impact that Docker container technology is having on the world of software development. Yet how did the founders of Docker actually learn how to code? It’s a question that the new Holberton School is aiming to answer. The Holberton School is backed by $2 million in seed capital […]