Sean Michael Kerner

Clothing retailer Bebe has publicly admitted that its payment systems were breached in a security incident last month. The breach, which occurred Nov. 8-26, involved payment cards used in Bebe stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and did not impact purchases made in Canada or online. According to Bebe, […]

Acquia, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Drupal content management system (CMS), is rolling out a new service to help secure Drupal sites hosted on the Acquia Cloud. The Acquia Shield provides access and isolation security for those that host their Drupal sites on the Acquia Cloud service, which itself is hosted on Amazon […]

Security startup Threatstream Dec. 4 announced that it has raised $22 million in a Series B round of funding, which was led by General Catalyst Partners. Threatstream has now raised a total of $26.4 million in funding to date. The company’s core technology is a product called Optic, which is intended to help organizations make […]

The open-source Docker project is growing today with the announcement of new efforts that expand the deployment and usability options of the popular container application virtualization technology. Docker Inc., the lead commercial vendor behind the open-source Docker project, is also announcing a commercial enterprise product and partnerships to help further accelerate adoption. Since Docker got […]

Facebook announced today a new partnership to help its users stay secure and malware-free—the social networking giant’s latest step to do its part to keep the Internet safe. The new partnership is with security vendor ESET, which will now help Facebook and its users find and detect potential malware running on user PCs. If a […]

Weaveworks announced Dec. 3 that it has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding that was led by Accel Partners. Weaveworks develops the open-source Weave project, which is a virtual networking technology for the distributed deployment of Docker containers. Over the course of the past year, Docker has become a much-hyped technology […]

Hewlett-Packard today announced the ArcSight Enterprise Security Management (ESM) 6.8c release, providing users with a number of new and enhanced features. Updates to ArcSight ESM—the security information and event management (SIEM) technology that HP gained via a $1.5 billion acquisition in 2010—include the Correlation Optimized Retention and Retrieval (CORR) real-time correlation engine. The ArcSight ESM […]

Docker has emerged over the last 18 months as a much-hyped container technology for application virtualization, but it’s not without its detractors. CoreOS was one of the leading backers of Docker until Dec. 1, when it announced a competitive container virtualization technology called Rocket. Rocket is completely new and isn’t a fork of Docker, Alex […]

Firefox 34 is now out, and with it, users gain new search and communication features as well as fixes for eight security issues. The latest release of Mozilla’s open-source Web browser is particularly noteworthy in that it is the first Firefox release since Mozilla’s announcement on Nov. 19 that it was ending its decadelong search […]

High-Bandwidth DDoS Attacks Becoming More Commonplace, Verisign Finds By Sean Michael Kerner 10G-bps DDoS Attacks Are Growing One of the highlights of Verisign’s third-quarter DDoS trends report is the observation that attacks of 10G bps or greater have grown quarter over quarter. During the third quarter, 10G-bps attacks represented 20 percent of all attacks seen […]

An active group known as FIN4 is hacking Wall Street financial firms in a bid to gain privileged financial information about non-public upcoming market moving announcements, according to a new report from FireEye. The FIN4 campaign began in the middle of 2013, according to FireEye. Sixty-eight percent of the companies that have been targeted are […]

Cisco first got involved with the open-source OpenStack cloud platform in 2011 with the Bexar release and initially was focused mostly on networking. Over the last several years, Cisco’s OpenStack involvement and product portfolio have grown beyond just networking. In a video interview with eWEEK, Lew Tucker, vice president and CTO of Cloud Computing at […]