Sean Michael Kerner

DigiCert today announced that it is acquiring the CyberTrust Enterprise SSL business from Verizon Enterprise Solutions. DigiCert is already a well-known and well-respected certificate authority (CA) and includes IBM, Sony, Facebook VMware, Intel and Harvard University among its customer base. The acquisition, the financial terms of which are not being publicly disclosed at this time, […]

The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) today announced that it is investing $452,000 in new grants for three open-source projects, as part of CII’s continuing mission to improve open-source code security. The Linux Foundation created CII in April 2014 following news of the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability. In February 2015, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim […]

The open-source container community is uniting today with the new Open Container Project (OCP), which is backed by the Linux Foundation. The OCP ends months of speculation and debate in the Docker community about container specifications and unite the biggest backers of containers behind a common purpose. In December 2014, the nascent community around Docker […]

Running an OpenStack hardware business is a tough proposition. Just ask OpenStack founder Chris Kemp, who also founded failed startup Nebula. Despite the risks, Toronto-based technology vendor Breqwtr is hoping it’s up to the challenge and announced its Cloud Appliance 2.0 on June 17. John Kadianos, founder and CEO at Breqwatr, explained that his company […]

In the world of DevOps, continuous integration (CI) is a core piece of workflow that enables a highly Agile development process. Few, if any, technologies are as widely used or deployed in CI as the open-source Jenkins server. In a move that will further enhance the DevOps workflow, CloudBees, the lead commercial sponsor behind Jenkins, […]

Samsung is facing accusations that it has a vulnerability in its Android phones that could be leaving more than 600 million users at risk. Security firm NowSecure first disclosed the vulnerability, known as CVE-2015-2865. While the vulnerability poses risks, the simple truth is that it is just one of many that could potentially impact Samsung’s […]

Phone scams are almost as old as the telephone itself, but in the age of near-pervasive digital connectivity, they are growing faster than ever, according to a new report from Pindrop Security. According to Pindrop’s analysis, there are approximately 86.2 million phone scam attacks in the United States every month. That means that one in […]

The widely deployed open-source Node.js programming framework is being reunited June 16 as the new Node.js Foundation, run as a Linux Foundation collaborative project. The Node.js community has been in turmoil this year with the io.js project publicly splitting from the original Node.js project started by Joyent. With the new foundation, the two communities are […]

Password security vendor LastPass publicly admitted on June 16 that it was the victim of a data breach of its network. The company, however, claims it has robust encryption in place, reducing the risks associated with the breached data. In a blog post, Joe Siegrist, the company’s CEO and co-founder, wrote that LastPass account email […]

Trustwave Weighs In on Self-Detected, SSL/TLS Vulnerabilities by Sean Michael Kerner Compromises Vary by Industry How IT environments are compromised varies across the industry segments. In retail, 27 percent of compromises came from POS breaches, while in the food and beverage space, POS accounted for 95 percent of breaches. Weak Passwords Pose Major Risks The […]

There is no shortage of venture capital funds flowing into security startups lately, with one of the leading players being General Catalyst Partners. Helping to lead General Catalyst’s efforts is Managing Partner Steve Herrod, who is well-known in the IT industry from his tenure at VMware, where he was CTO and senior vice president of […]

The open-source Docker application container virtualization technology is becoming increasingly popular, spawning a need for distributed monitoring capabilities. To help organizations understand what tools are available for container monitoring, Docker last week announced a new Ecosystem Technology Partner (ETP) program that is starting off with six vendors that have integrated with Docker for monitoring. Those […]