Sean Michael Kerner

BlackArch Linux Offers Wealth of Security Research Tools by Sean Michael Kerner BlackArch Has Sever Desktop Choices Users can choose from multiple Linux desktops for BlackArch, with Fluxbox being the default. Tool Categories Range From A to W The long list of categories in BlackArch starts with anti-forensic tools and goes all the way to […]

OpenStack cloud vendor Nebula, which was started up by OpenStack founder and former NASA CTO Chris Kemp in March 2011, is ceasing operations effective April 1. The news was not expected and raises questions about the OpenStack ecosystem and the multiple vendors within it. “This is a difficult announcement for us to make and we […]

President Obama today announced a new sanctions program to take action against cyber-atttackers that threaten the United States. The move is intended to provide another tool for the government to help protect American interests. In a White House blog post, Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, explained that the new […]

Security startup Hexadite today officially announced its Automated Incident Response Solution (AIRS), providing enterprises with a new tool to organize and respond to security incidents. Hexadite, which was founded in March 2014 and has raised $2.5 million in funding to date, focuses on incident response and benefits from the experience of the company’s founders, who […]

Mozilla today released its Firefox 37 browser, providing users with security patches for 13 different security advisories as well as adding new security and user-experience features. Among the major new security features is a technology known as opportunistic encryption, which is designed to encrypt potentially sensitive data that would otherwise have been sent unencrypted and […]

Security vendor Tanium today announced that it has raised $52 million in a new round of funding, bringing its total financing to $142 million. Tanium builds an endpoint defense platform now being updated to version 6.5. Tanium’s founders come from endpoint system management specialist BigFix, which IBM acquired in 2010. Orion Hindawi, co-founder and CTO […]

Some distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are longer than others. Case in point is the ongoing attack against GitHub, which is now entering its fifth day. GitHub’s status page first reported that it was being impacted by a DDoS attack on March 26, and it is still ongoing as of March 30. GitHub has emerged in […]

As opportunities in the emerging Internet of things (IoT) market grow, so too do the associated security risks that organizations need to consider. Sami Luukkonen, global managing director for the Accenture’s Electronics and High Technology business, is seeing vendors of all shapes and sizes coming to his organization asking about IoT, and they’re all worried […]

DDoS and Attacks Against Port 23 on the Rise by Sean Michael Kerner China’s Percentage of Attack Traffic Is Declining In the fourth quarter of 2014, China was the source of 41 percent of attack traffic, down from 49 percent in the third quarter of 2014. Port 23 Is the Most Attacked Port The percentage […]

For much of the Internet’s history, top-level domains (TLDs) were few in number, but that has changed over the course of the past year as new generic TLDs (gTLDs) have emerged. TLDs are the naming suffix for Internet addresses and include dot-com (as in eWEEK.com), which recently turned 30 years old. In 2012, there were […]

Hospitality network equipment vendor ANTlabs issued a public advisory on March 26 about a vulnerability (identified as CVE-2015-0932) in its systems. The vulnerability is the configuration of the rsync service, which is a common synchronization utility found on Linux and Unix systems. ANTlabs InnGate gateways were running an rsync service in a manner that is […]

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system, announced on March 26 that it has entered into a three-year partnership with Ericsson. As part of the deal, Ericsson will use Ubuntu as the host operating system for the Ericsson Cloud System platform. Both Ericsson and Canonical are members of the OpenStack […]