Sean Michael Kerner

BARCELONA, Spain—Docker Inc. continues to grow at a fast pace and is positioning itself to be a catalyst that enables enterprises for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. That’s a key message coming from Docker CEO Steve Singh in a video interview with eWEEK at DockerCon Europe 2018 here. During the event, Docker announced its new Enterprise Desktop […]

BARCELONA, Spain—Microsoft and Docker Inc. jointly announced a new specification effort at DockerCon Europe 2018 here on Dec. 5 called Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB) that looks to make it easier for developers and organizations to deploy complete applications with a simplified packaging system. CNAB currently provides an initial early-stage specification for packaging distributed apps. […]

BARCELONA, Spain—Docker CEO Steve Singh kicked off DockerCon Europe 2018 here with a bold statement: Companies need to transform, or risk becoming irrelevant. According to Singh, Docker is a key tool for enabling organizations to transform their businesses. To date for enterprises, the core Docker Enterprise Platform has been largely focused on operations and deployment, […]

Popular online question and answer site Quora reported a data breach late on Dec. 3, impacting 100 million of its users worldwide. Among the data that was stolen is personally identifiable information (PII) from the 100 million users including account information with name, email address and encrypted (hashed) passwords as well as data imported from […]

Kubernetes 1.13 was released on Dec. 3, providing users of the popular open-source cloud-native platform with new features to make it easier to manage, deploy and operate containers in production. Among the features that are now generally available in Kubernetes 1.13 is the kubeadm administration tool for configuring services. The Container Storage Interface is another […]

NeuVector will issue a new release of its platform on Dec. 4, providing organizations with enhanced capabilities to secure cloud-native, container environments. The NeuVector 2.3 release expands the container, cloud-native firewall technology with admission control security capabilities that can be directly integrated with the Kubernetes container orchestration platform. “NeuVector uses the features of Kubernetes as […]

In the cloud industry, one thing has been fairly certain in recent years and that is the fact that Amazon Web Services will continue to announce new features and capabilities for its cloud platform at a rapid pace. The busiest event by far for AWS is its annual AWS re:Invent conference, which is often the […]

There have been multiple cyber-security incidents in recent years involving hotel chains, but none has been bigger than the one disclosed on Nov. 30 by Marriott International’s Starwood Hotels and Resorts division. Information from approximately 500 million individuals who have made reservations at Starwood properties around the world are potentially at risk from the massive […]

Dell announced late on Nov. 28 that its Dell.com customer-facing website was the victim of a cyber-attack. The attack was apparently discovered by Dell on Nov. 9, with attackers taking aim at usernames, email addresses and passwords that had been cryptographically hashed. According to Dell, it has no evidence that customer information was actually removed […]

Cyber-security firm Tenable disclosed on Nov. 29 that it found a high-impact vulnerability in the Zoom web video conferencing platform that could have potentially enabled an attacker to hijack controls. Zoom has become increasingly popular in recent years, with up to 750,000 global users. The vulnerability could have potentially allowed an attacker to impersonate meeting […]

Cyber-attackers aren’t continuously going after the same executive and high-level management; they are actually shifting targets to other individuals within organizations, including lower management, according to a report from Proofpoint released on Nov. 28. The Proofpoint third-quarter 2018 Protecting People report found that a staggering 99 percent of the most targeted email addresses in the […]

IBM announced on Nov. 28 that it is expanding the capabilities of its QRadar Advisor with Watson platform to help organizations more rapidly understand attacker behaviors. The IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson 2.0 release is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables organizations to collect and make sense of security data. With the 2.0 update, […]