Sean Michael Kerner

Mirantis, which has emerged in recent years as a leading vendor in OpenStack software and services, is helping enable cloud hardware though the launch of its new Mirantis Unlocked Appliances program. “We were already engaging customers with custom OpenStack engineering services and with support for our Mirantis OpenStack distribution,” Jim Sangster, senior director of solutions […]

If you use Adobe Flash (and you probably do), it’s time to update (again). Adobe came out today with the APSB15-16 security bulletin providing patches for 36 security vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. Among the vulnerabilities patched in the update is CVE-2015-5119, a zero-day flaw that is already being exploited. The CVE-2015-5119 vulnerability publicly came […]

Cloud vendor DigitalOcean today announced that it has raised $83 million in a Series B round of funding led by Access Industries and with the participation of Andreessen Horowitz. The new funding, according to Ben Uretsky, co-founder and CEO of DigitalOcean, will help finance his company’s growth, buying new servers and investing in the facilities […]

Getting a top ranking in Google’s search engine is supposed to be an organic task, with the best content ranking highest, but according to a new research report from security vendor Sophos, attackers are using cloaked PDF files to influence Google’s search results. The cloaked files may include malware and links to malicious sites. Maxim […]

Robert (Bob) Carr knows firsthand what it’s like to be the victim of a data breach. Carr is the CEO of payment processor Heartland, which was breached in 2008. Since then, Carr has been on a mission to remake payment security as robust as possible and do whatever is necessary to reduce the risk of […]

Italian cyber-security vendor Hacking Team, a company whose platform is aimed at helping government agencies hack and perform surveillance on others, ironically has been hacked itself. Hacking Team’s primary product is the Remote Control System (RCS), a software agent that resides on a target’s machine. “Evidence collection on monitored devices is stealth and transmission of […]

There are two new versions of Mozilla’s Web browsers for users to try out today, with a stable Firefox 39 release and a beta of Firefox 40 that provides a preview of features still in active development. With Firefox 39, Mozilla has integrated its Project Silk effort, whose goal is to make the browser scrolling […]

Linux Mint 17.2 Improves Desktop Experience By Sean Michael Kerner Linux Mint 17.2 Is a Long-Term Support Release As was the case with Linux Mint 17.1, the 17.2 update is based on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 and is considered to be a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. As an LTS, Linux Mint 17.2 will receive security updates […]

Kentik, which was formerly named CloudHelix, officially emerged from stealth mode on July 1, with $12.1 million in a Series A funding round led by August Capital. Total funding to date for Kentix stands at $15.2 million. “Kentik” is a Yiddish term that means “visible,” which is what Kentik’s product is all about: making the […]

In December 2014, the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance issued the 1.0 version of its U2F (Universal Second Factor) security specifications to enable two-factor authentication. The U2F 1.0 specification is now being expanded to support the wireless Bluetooth and near-field communications (NFC) protocols. What U2F provides is a second-factor authentication mechanism that can be used […]

Although there is much excitement among Apple users for the upcoming iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 releases, they aren’t yet available, and Apple is still updating iOS 8 and OS X 10.10. Apple released the OS X 10.10.4 and iOS 8.4 updates on June 30, providing users with security patches fixing multiple vulnerabilities across […]

Venafi today announced that it has raised $39 million to help fuel its growth in the security certificate management space. The new Series F funding, led by QuestMark Partners with the participation of Intel Capital and Silver Lake Waterman, brings the company’s total financing to $101 million. “To be able to get to all the […]