Sean Michael Kerner

VMware announced version 1.4 of Enterprise PKS on April 23, bringing new functionality to help organizations operationalize the cloud-native Kubernetes container orchestration platform. PKS, which is an acronym for the Pivotal Container Service, is a joint product effort from VMware and its partner Pivotal, integrating Kubernetes with components from Pivotal as well as VMware. The […]

The FBI’s Internet Crime Center (IC3) released its annual Internet Crime Report on April 22, revealing a dramatic spike in the amount of financial losses incurred in 2018 from internet-enabled theft fraud and exploitation. The 28-page report is based on 351,937 complaints received by IC3 in 2018, which is a nominal increase over the 301,580 […]

As demand and adoption of the cloud continue to grow, there is corresponding growth in organizations spending more on technologies to secure cloud workloads, according to analyst firm Forrester.  Forrester’s Cloud Security Solutions Forecast 2018 to 2023 report estimates that by 2023 the global market for cloud security technologies will reach $12.7 billion, up from […]

Cross Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is among the most pervasive flaws on the web today. With an XSS flaw, an attacker is potentially able to inject a script on a site from another domain without authorization. According to Google engineers Lukas Weichselbaum and Michele Spagnuolo, XSS is a big issue for Google, […]

Mozilla is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, but that’s far from the only thing the open-source organization is working on. On April 18, Mozilla relaunched its open-source internet of things (IoT) platform Project Things as WebThings as the effort moves beyond its experimental phase. The IoT landscape represents a particular set of […]

Sometimes the full impact of a data security incident isn’t known when it is first disclosed. That’s the case with Facebook, which on March 21 first publicly admitted that it had inadvertently left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed—it is now revising the impact upward. While hundreds of millions of user passwords is already […]

In a video interview with eWEEK, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth outlines the growing importance of snaps in the Ubuntu 19.04 update. Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at eWEEK and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

Oracle released its latest quarterly Critical Patch Update on April 17, fixing 297 vulnerabilities spread across its software portfolio. The vulnerabilities patched in the update vary in severity, with 53 of the flaws getting a Common Vulnerabilities Scoring System (CVSS) score of 9.0 or more, denoting the most critical issues. Not all of the vulnerabilities […]

Cisco Talos is warning of a new attacker group it has dubbed “Sea Turtle” that is exploiting DNS information at scale across large government agencies. According to the report which was released on April 17, the Sea Turtle attack has already compromised at least 40 different organizations, spread across 13 different countries. While DNS attacks […]

BlackBerry is a very different company today than it was a decade ago, as the one-time mobile giant is now firmly positioning itself to be a global player in the cyber-security market. Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at eWEEK and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

Open source has evolved over the past two decades into a cornerstone of the modern IT landscape. At the core of the open-source revolution is the concept of enterprise open source, which is software that is backed and supported in a way that makes it easier for enterprises to consume and use in a stable, […]

Microsoft has admitted that it suffered a data breach involving its web-based email services including Outlook.com, MSN.com and Hotmail.com that lasted for three months before it was detected and remediated.  Microsoft has not fully publicly disclosed how many customer accounts were impacted, and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from […]