Sean Michael Kerner

LAS VEGAS—At the Interop conference here, silicon vendor Cavium is among those showcasing their latest innovations. In a video interview with eWEEK, Raghib Hussain, corporate vice president/general manager and CTO of Cavium, explained what the company is doing in silicon and software to advance the state of network security. “Cavium as a company has put […]

LAS VEGAS—The Target data breach in 2013 sent shock waves through the retail industry that reached all the way to Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. In a keynote speech on April 28 at the InformationWeek Conference, co-located with the Interop conference here, Walmart CIO Karenann Terrell (pictured) answered a question from the audience about the […]

Arbor Networks is reporting the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack it has ever seen—a 334G-bps attack against an organization in India. Overall, the volume of large DDoS attacks continues to grow, according to Arbor’s Q1 2015 global DDoS report, which the company released on April 28. Arbor found that 17.7 percent of attacks were over […]

LAS VEGAS—With the National Basketball Association playoffs in full swing, fans can’t seem to get enough of the league’s players and action. And so behind the scenes, the NBA is managing a mountain of player and game information for its millions of fans. In a keynote address on April 27 at the InformationWeek Conference, co-located […]

The open-source WordPress content management system (CMS) on April 27 issued an emergency update, patching a new zero-day vulnerability that might have exposed users to risk. Security researcher Jouko Pynnönen first blogged about the zero-day issue on April 26. “An unauthenticated attacker can inject JavaScript in WordPress comments,” Pynnönen warned. “The script is triggered when […]

There was a pall of darkness that hung over the RSA Conference that ran at San Francisco’s Moscone Center from April 20 to 24. Speaker after speaker, session after session, vendor booth after vendor booth, there was one overriding message that I heard time and again—the attackers are winning. The most clichéd saying of the […]

Tesla Motors was the victim of a Website and Twitter account hack on April 25. However, the electric car vendor was able to regain control approximately 10 minutes after the attack occurred, which was around 4:50 p.m. EDT, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. In addition, Tesla founder Elon Musk’s personal Twitter […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Retired Gen. Keith Alexander is best known as the man at the center of the National Security Agency (NSA) metadata collection program, revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Speaking at the RSA Conference here on April 24, Alexander talked about his life after retiring from the NSA in 2014. Alexander (pictured) was onstage with Ted […]

Luminaries Discuss Hot Security Trends, From Clouds to Hacks, at RSA by Sean Michael Kerner North, South and West Moscone Were Packed With People Once again, the RSA Conference was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and filled the North, South and West buildings. RSA Chief Wants Change During the opening keynote of […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Pwnie Express is a company that is well-known in the security researcher community for its hardware-based penetration testing tools. Now, the company is positioning itself to go into the broader enterprise market as a product and services vendor that can help organizations find rogue devices and reduce the risk for attacks. In an interview […]

The Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Linux operating system debuted today with new desktop, cloud, server and Internet of things (IoT) capabilities. For the desktop component, a key addition in Ubuntu 15.04 is the Ubuntu Make developer tools suite. “Ubuntu is the preferred development environment in an astonishing array of use-cases around the world,” Mark Shuttleworth, […]

SAN FRANCISCO–According to Lath Carlson, vice president of Exhibits for The Tech Museum of Innovation, there has never been a museum exhibit on cyber-security. That’s a situation Carlson is now helping to change thanks to a partnership with the RSA Conference. The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., is all about showcasing computing […]