Sean Michael Kerner

Docker at Age 2 Reaches Out Far Beyond Its Roots by Sean Michael Kerner IBM Embraces Docker Among Docker’s biggest supporters is IBM which announced the IBM Containers Docker-based service in December 2014. Amazon has an EC2 Container Service Amazon is also a backer of Docker and supports the container virtualization technology across multiple products, […]

Security vendor PhishMe today announced that it has raised $13 million in a Series B round of funding that included the participation of Paladin Capital Group and Aldrich Capital Partners. PhishMe’s Series A round in 2012 raised $2.5 million, bringing the total funding to date up to $15.5 million. PhishMe aims to give organizations a […]

More than one-fifth (21 percent) of sites have known vulnerabilities, including Web server and PHP issues, according to Menlo Security’s State of the Web March 2015 study that scanned 750,000 unique domains. “The home page of each of the 750,000 domains in the Alexa 1 million [Alexa’s top 1 million Websites] was visited once,” Kowsik […]

As technology users increasingly rely on mobile devices, there is a need for improved mobile security testing technologies. It’s a need that entrepreneur and security expert Georgia Weidman is aiming to address with her new startup, called Shevirah. Weidman, no stranger to the world of mobile security, was the recipient of a Defense Advanced Research […]

Gamers are used to being attacked. After all, one of the most common genres of video gameplay are first-person shooters (FPS), where players attack others. While gamers are used to being attacked inside of games, they are now being advised of a possible hack against gaming live-streaming service Twitch. In a blog post published March […]

Blue Coat today announced its expanded Global Intelligence Network, a cloud-based platform that works with the company’s software and hardware product portfolio. The platform incorporates technologies that Blue Coat gained through the acquisitions of Solera Networks and Norman Shark. The expanded platform announcement comes two weeks after Blue Coat announced that it was being acquired […]

As has been the case in prior years, Mozilla is the first vendor to patch its browser for vulnerabilities first disclosed at Hewlett-Packard’s Pwn2Own browser-hacking contest. Every year, major browsers that the vendors have fully patched beforehand are found to be exploitable, and 2015 was no exception. At the 2015 Pwn2Own event on March 18 […]

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are often associated with large bursts of attack traffic that last for hours at a time, but that’s not the only type of DDoS attack. In fact, the majority of DDoS attacks in the fourth quarter of 2014 lasted 30 minutes or fewer, a new report from Corero Network Security found. […]

Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) is widely used to secure data in motion on the Internet, but it isn’t always configured properly or patched for the latest security updates. Aiming to help improve the state of SSL/TLS deployments, Qualys announced on March 17 that it is expanding its SSL Labs testing service to enable […]

On March 19, the second day of the Hewlett-Packard Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) sponsored Pwn2Own hacking challenge at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, B.C., security researchers were able to successfully exploit Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Apple Safari. HP awarded the researchers a total of $240,000 in prize money on the second […]

Malware exists in many forms and is used to attack many different technologies, including Microsoft’s Windows operating system kernel. Security firm Lastline announced a new capability to detect kernel malware, complemented by a presentation March 17 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference on the state of malware. “There is malware today that injects itself […]

Hewlett-Packard’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) kicked off its annual Pwn2Own browser hacking challenge on March 18 at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the big target on the event’s first day was Adobe. Multiple new zero-day vulnerabilities found in Adobe products were publicly demonstrated, and Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 11 […]