Sean Michael Kerner

There is no shortage of hype in the cloud and in container technology today, but is there any money to be made in new startups that are now entering the space? That’s the question a group of venture capitalists attempted to answer during a panel discussion on Aug. 27 at the OpenStack Silicon Valley event. […]

KDE Plasma 5.4 Enhances Linux Desktop Experience The latest KDE Plasma desktop release improves performance and adds a new Application Dashboard, among other updates. Wayland Now a Tech Preview The KDE Plasma 5.4 release supports the next-generation Wayland display server. KRunner Improves Search Desktop search now remembers recent searches to help users find what they […]

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is once again wading into the security arena, this time picking up a majority interest stake in security vendor DigiCert. As part of the deal, in which financial terms have not been publicly disclosed, Thoma Bravo is acquiring the majority interest in DigiCert, with existing shareholder TA Associates remaining on-board […]

OpenStack continues to move forward, even as new technologies like containers enter the cloud virtualization landscape. At the OpenStack Silicon Valley event on Aug. 26, OpenStack supporters discussed why the open-source cloud platform is thriving and detailed new efforts to keep momentum moving forward. Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, announced that the […]

At the Black Hat USA security conference on Aug. 6, security researchers from Check Point publicly announced a new Android flaw dubbed “Certifi-gate.” Now, nearly three weeks later, Check Point has published statistics on the impact of the flaw that could potentially enable an attacker to take over an Android device. The Certifi-gate flaw is […]

In recent years, it has become increasingly obvious that bug bounty programs can be effective tools to help organizations secure application code. At one time, bug bounty programs were the realm of large organizations only, but that has changed in the last few years, thanks to the emergence of bug bounty platforms, such as HackerOne […]

How the DDoS Attack Landscape Continues to Shift A new report from Akamai shows a 132 percent increase in the total volume of second-quarter DDoS attacks, compared with the same period last year. More Than Half of Attacks Were Over HTTPS While HTTPS is generally considered a good thing for security because it provides encrypted […]

In a welcome turn of events, the Toronto Police Service announced in a press conference on Aug. 24 that it is leading a global investigation into the hack of infidelity Website Ashley Madison. During the press conference, Avid Life Media (AVM), the owner and operator of the Ashley Madison site, offered a $500,000 reward for […]

CoreOS is moving forward with its development of the Rocket (rkt) container technology, thanks to some help from Intel. The latest rkt 0.8 release became generally available on Aug. 19, integrating Intel’s Clear Containers technology, providing hardware-assisted container isolation and security. In a video interview with eWEEK, Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, details the latest […]

LinuxCon Highlights: From Linus Torvalds to Microsoft This year’s LinuxCon North America conference highlighted the latest in Linux and open-source technologies—and showcased both the expected and unexpected. IBM Debuts LinuxONE Mainframe IBM announced and displayed its new LinuxONE mainframe. The LinuxONE Emperor is based on the z13 mainframe. Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Vision Linux creator […]

Privately held security vendor AlienVault announced on Aug. 19 that it has raised $52 million in a new Series E round of funding, led by Institutional Venture Partners and including the participation of GGV Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Trident Capital, and Caufield and Byers. Total funding to-date for AlienVault now stands at $116 million. AlienVault CEO […]

SEATTLE—Most Linux proponents likely never expected to see Microsoft listed as a sponsor for a Linux Foundation event. Yet that’s precisely what happened at the LinuxCon North America event here this week. Microsoft was a sponsor of the event and also had a booth in the vendor area that attracted a significant amount of attention […]