Sean Michael Kerner

Tempered Networks aims to make it easier to deploy Host Intrusion Protocol-based technology with the launch of a second generation of its hardware switches and updated software. Tempered Networks entered the market in November 2014 as the rebranded name of Asguard Networks. The HIP specification was originally jointly developed by Verizon, Ericsson and Boeing as […]

From Sept. 1, 2013 until Sept. 16, 2015, hackers were pilfering T-Mobile USA’s customer information, and no one knew about it—until yesterday. Approximately 15 million T-Mobile USA customers and applicants are at risk because of a data breach at Experian, which handles customer information on T-Mobile USA postpaid and device financing services. Experian claims that […]

GitHub has emerged in recent years to become the de facto standard location for developers to launch new code projects and engage with potential contributors. With all that code in one place, GitHub is also an attractive target for attackers, with password security often being the weak link. In an effort to secure itself and […]

Back in late July, Zimperium zLabs Vice President of Platform Research and Exploitation Joshua Drake made headlines with his initial discovery of the Android Stagefright vulnerability. While Google has since patched those initial Stagefright vulnerabilities, there is now a new crop of Stagefright-related issues that must be patched. Zimperium today announced a pair of the […]

Apple today released its OS X 10.11 El Capitan desktop operating system, providing users with incremental new features and a long list of security patches. The 10.11 update follows Apple’s mobile iOS 9 update that debuted Sept. 16 and includes some of the same security patches. One such example is in the CFNetwork component, which […]

Mirantis has emerged in recent years as one of the leading vendors and contributors to the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. Today Mirantis is releasing its OpenStack 7.0 distribution, which bundles its Fuel toolkit for cloud deployment and management alongside common OpenStack components. Mirantis’ first OpenStack distribution debuted two years ago in October 2013 and has […]

In the world of security vendors, Keeper Security is somewhat of an anomaly. While there is no shortage of venture capital funding flowing to security vendors, Keeper Security is bootstrapped by its co-founders and is growing without the need for outside funding. Keeper Security today launched its Keeper Enterprise 2.0 platform, providing enhanced password management […]

Rackspace is debuting new Managed Security and Compliance Assistance services today in a bid to help improve its customers’ security. “Rackspace has always had a focus on security, but we used to draw a line, where our customers were responsible for implementing security solutions on their own after a certain point,” Perry Robinson, vice president […]

In the DevOps world, the open-source Vagrant tool has long been a standard application, enabling developers to create reproducible virtual development environments. HashiCorp, the lead commercial sponsor behind Vagrant, has been continuously improving a full suite of DevOps tools in recent years to complement Vagrant, and today it’s going a step further, by redefining Vagrant […]

GNOME 3.18 Open-Source Linux Desktop Gets a Makeover Code-named Gothenburg, the new open-source desktop environment benefits from 25,112 changes from 772 contributors. Files Branches Out to Multiple Locations With GNOME 3.18, the Files view has been improved, which makes it easier to connect to different servers and sources, including Google Drive. Calendar Management Is Improved […]

Hilton Worldwide Holdings is investigating a report that alleges hackers breached multiple Hilton properties. In a statement sent to Reuters, a Hilton spokesperson commented that the company takes any potential security issue very seriously and is looking into the matter. “Unfortunately, the possibility of fraudulent credit card activity is all too common for every company […]

More often than not, whenever there is a major breach, the company that is called in to do incident response is FireEye’s Mandiant division. Among the organizations that FireEye has helped deal with high-profile breaches are Sony Pictures and health insurance provider Anthem. Incident response isn’t the only thing that FireEye does, but it does […]