Sean Michael Kerner

Security vendor Rapid7’s June 11 S-1 filing for an initial public offering (IPO) is yet another indication of the intense demand for security services and the willingness of investors to pour money into security technologies. Rapid7’s S-1 filing offers new visibility into the operations of the currently privately held company. In 2014, Rapid7 generated $76.9 […]

There are a lot of different ways that hackers can attack users and devices, but perhaps the easiest and most lucrative method is via an exploit kit. The new 2015 Trustwave Global Security Report reveals that hackers are getting an estimated 1,425 percent return on investment from exploit kit and ransomware campaigns. The report is […]

Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities, Ransomware on the Rise by Sean Michael Kerner Ransomware Grows by 165 Percent Malware that locks a user’s system until a fee, or “ransom,” is paid is known as ransomware, and it’s a growing trend. In the first quarter of 2015, McAfee Labs detected more new ransomware samples than ever before. CTB-Locker […]

Euguene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab, is used to talking about security exploits his security firm has discovered lurking in corporate networks. Today Kaspersky had the rare opportunity to talk about an exploit that hit his own network and remained undetected for months. Kaspersky (pictured) dubbed the advanced persistent attack (APT) malware Duqu 2.0 as […]

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a digital hacking group loosely aligned with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is claiming responsibility for an attack against the Army.mil Website operated by the U.S. Army. The attack occurred on June 8 and was a defacement of the site that triggered multiple pop-up messages, including one that […]

The U.S. government is taking a major step to secure its online assets with a new directive from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to run HTTPS-Only across all federal Websites. The HTTPS-Only directive, which Federal CIO Tony Scott issued June 8, mandates that all publicly accessible federal Websites only be accessible […]

VMware is expanding its EVO:RAIL converged compute, server and storage appliance portfolio with new hardware and software options. VMware’s customers can now choose EVO:RAIL appliances that include dual 6-, 8-, 10- or 12-core Intel Haswell or Ivy Bridge CPUs, with up to 512GB of memory available per node. Storage is a big focus in the […]

Virtualization startup Rancher Labs today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round of funding from Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. Rancher Labs’ founders are well-known in the cloud industry as the founders of cloud.com, which was sold to Citrix and evolved to become the Apache CloudStack cloud platform. In an exclusive […]

Ping Identity executives see identity as the cornerstone of access to computing and application resources inside an enterprise and in the cloud. The executives, who see securing identity as a critical endeavor, today announced the Identity Defined Security Platform, which combines updated tools in an approach to improve identity control, as a function of proactive […]

Mixed DDoS Attack Picture in Q1: Number Up, Size Down by Sean Michael Kerner Most Attacks Exceeded 1G bps In the first quarter, most DDoS attacks had more than 1G bps in attack traffic volume. In particular, Verisign noted that attacks in the 1G-bps to 5G-bps range are growing fast and represented 34 percent of […]

Web-based attacks executed over Web browsers are a common attack vector. To combat such attacks, Menlo Security today officially emerged from stealth mode with its Isolation Platform, which makes use of Linux containers to limit risks. In addition to launching its Isolation Platform, Menlo Security announced that it has closed a $25 million Series B […]

British Telecom (BT) is one of the world’s largest technology service providers, delivering a wide range of capabilities to customers in Britain and around the world. A core set of capabilities that BT provides are security services, both to protect customers as well as BT’s own network. Leading the telco’s global security efforts is Mark […]