Sean Michael Kerner

Ransomware Up, Spam Down: Seven Security Trends There has been no summer slowdown for security stats, but it’s not all bad news either. That’s what McAfee Labs found in its 2Q15 Threats Report. Total Malware Grew by 12 Percent On the whole, the total volume of malware in the McAfee Labs malware zoo at the […]

Reporting on cyber-security can be a somewhat depressing endeavor—given the seemingly endless onslaught of exploits, breaches and statistics that preach doom and gloom on a daily basis. The truth, however, is that modern cyber-security is not all darkness. Many have long heard the adage in journalism that “if it bleeds, it leads,” and all you […]

Mozilla admitted today that its Bugzilla bug tracking system was breached by an attacker, who was then able to get access to information about unpatched zero-day bugs. While Mozilla doesn’t have finite timelines on when the breach occurred, it may well have happened as far back as September 2013. According to Mozilla, the attacker was […]

Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies announced its new SandBlast technology on Sept. 2, providing a new approach to detecting and removing malware. The SandBlast technology makes use of both sandboxing and emulation techniques to help secure enterprises from known and unknown threats. SandBlast is available as both an on-premises and a cloud service, according […]

With most items that any individual or company buys, there is often a guarantee of some kind and the promise of a refund if the item doesn’t work. Jeremiah Grossman, founder of WhiteHat Security, is taking the same basic premise and bringing it to the world of Web security. For the past year, Grossman’s company […]

VMworld Spotlights Unified Hybrid Cloud, Containers and More A cornerstone of the annual conference is the keynote speeches in which VMware and its partners discuss new products and general trends for the road ahead. VMware President Emphasizes Openness Carl Eschenbach, president and chief operating officer of VMware, used his opening keynote to emphasize that the […]

There is no shortage of data sources to help organizations identify potential security risks, but making sense of all the data can be a challenge. To that end, Hewlett-Packard announced new analytics services at the HP Protect 2015 conference to help organizations improve security. The overall theme of HP’s Protect news is about adding more […]

One of the hottest cyber-security vendors today is Tanium, which is now raising $120 million in a new round of funding from TPG, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and Andreessen Horowitz. The new funding round follows a $52 million round announced by Tanium in March and a $90 million round in June 2014, bringing total funding […]

Network security vendor Palo Alto Networks is warning about a new form of iOS malware it has dubbed Keyraider, which has already claimed 225,000 victims. Although a quarter of a million Apple accounts have potentially been compromised, most Apple users are not at risk and likely never will be. Keyraider only works against Jailbroken iOS […]

LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Productivity Suite at a Glance The latest update of the LibreOffice open-source office suite provides new features and improved stability and performance. Learn more about its key features. LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Office Suite As was the case with previous releases, LibreOffice 5.0.1 aims to provide an open-source choice for a complete office […]

Singtel has officially closed its acquisition of security vendor Trustwave. When the deal was first announced in April of this year, the value was estimated at $810 million, which was adjusted on closing to $770 million to account for working capital and other adjustments. With the deal closed, Trustwave’s reach now expands globally alongside Singtel’s […]

In the world of security research, much of the work is long, boring and tedious, but somehow the best researchers make it all seem interesting and exciting. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek are not your average security researchers—while they have the technical chops to do the tedious work, they also have an unmatched onstage persona […]