Sean Michael Kerner

Malware infections continue to infest the modern Internet, and there is no shortage of vendors, or money, trying to solve the problem. One of the newest entrants in the battle against malware is startup Menlo Security, which announced its Series A funding round on Nov. 18. Menlo Security has raised $10.5 million in a funding […]

In Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday update last week, one advisory that had originally been scheduled to be included was not. That advisory, MS14-068, is now out in an emergency out-of-band patch update for a critical vulnerability in the Windows Kerberos authentication mechanism. The vulnerability has been identified as CVE-2014-6324, and, according to Microsoft’s advisory, an […]

In the quest for improved user security on the Internet, encryption is a key tool, though it hasn’t always been easy to use and deploy. Today, a group of organizations—including Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust and researchers at the University of Michigan—joined with the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to announce the Let’s […]

Apple released its first incremental update for its new OS X 10.10 Yosemite operating system on Nov. 17, providing users with four security fixes, only one of which is rated as being critical. OS X 10.10 Yosemite was officially released by Apple on Oct. 16 alongside the 10.9.5 security update for the OS X Mavericks […]

Among the 33 flaws for which Microsoft delivered fixes in its Patch Tuesday update last week was CVE-2014-6321, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft Secure Channel (Schannel) security technology, which provides Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) cryptographic capabilities. Although many media reports last week alleged that the Schannel flaw was a Windows […]

Over the course of the last several weeks, a number of high-profile U.S. federal networks have been breached by attackers. The latest organization to be breached is the U.S. State Department, which had to take its email system offline. The breach at the State Department follows attacks against the White House, the United States Postal […]

The annual Mobile Pwn2Own competition, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard’s Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) and held in Tokyo on Nov. 12 and 13, yielded some surprising results. The mobile version of the Pwn2Own hacking challenge offers security researchers cash and prizes for successfully exploiting mobile devices. In the 2013 event, researchers exploited Android and iOS devices alike. On […]

AWS Showcases Latest Technology to ‘Reinvent’ the Cloud by Sean Michael Kerner AWS Lambda Provides Event-Driven Compute Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explained that the new Lambda service is an event-driven technology that doesn’t require users to first provision any cloud infrastructure. With Lambda, an event, such as an image upload, can trigger the creation of […]

Over the course of the last 12 months, there has been a relentless string of disclosures about retail data breaches, typically as a result of some form of point-of-sale (POS) malware. A new report from security vendor Cyphort analyzes some of the main culprits. One of the largest retail breaches of the last year involves […]

Red Hat got its start as a platform vendor for the Linux operating system, and over the years the platform has evolved to include virtualization and cloud infrastructure. Leading the products and technology group at Red Hat, as the company has evolved into a broader infrastructure vendor, is Paul Cormier, who has been at Red […]

The Pew Research Internet Project published a study on Nov. 12 that reveals how distraught Americans have become about the privacy of their personal information. According to the study, only 5 percent of respondents were not aware of U.S government programs to monitor American’s calls and emails. U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was breached by attackers, allegedly from China, in an attack that has now been contained. NOAA’s areas of responsibility include the National Weather Service, and its overall operations include U.S.-operated satellites and imaging systems. In a statement sent to eWEEK by NOAA spokesperson Scott Smullen, the agency notes […]