Sean Michael Kerner

Docker Inc., the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Docker container virtualization technology, today announced that it has closed a $40 million Series C round of funding. The new round of funding comes on the heels of the Docker 1.0 release and the emergence of a commercial ecosystem around the container virtualization technology. The Series […]

More often than not, data breaches are the result of some form of malware intrusion. While malware is often an indicator of compromise, not all attacks are malware-based. According to Dmitri Alperovitch, CTO of CrowdStrike, there is a growing trend toward malware-free based intrusions. In a video interview with eWEEK, Alperovitch explains what types of […]

Password reuse is not a fictional issue; it’s a clear and present danger. Just ask popular blogging service WordPress.com. Last week, information on 5 million Google accounts was publicly posted on a Russian Bitcoin forum site. On Sept. 10, Google responded to the issue by publicly denying that its site had been breached and claiming […]

According to court documents released on Sept. 11, Yahoo resisted the U.S. government’s initial attempts to force it to comply with the National Security Agency’s PRISM program back in 2008. The details in the court documents were first published by the Washington Post and claim that Yahoo was threatened with a $250,000-a-day fine for PRISM […]

Hewlett-Packard announced on Sept. 11 that it had acquired privately held cloud vendor Eucalyptus. The deal—the financial terms of which are not being publicly disclosed—raises questions about HP’s cloud plans. It’s a deal that will see Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos take on a new leadership role as senior vice president and general manager of HP’s […]

Enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor Salesforce.com is warning its customers about potential attacks from Dyre, a banking Trojan that steals user information and access credentials. In a security alert posted on the Salesforce site, the company warned that it became aware of Dyre on Sept. 3, and the malware might now be targeting Salesforce customers. “This […]

Hewlett-Packard this week announced new technology that steps outside the bounds of what has traditionally been considered in IT security. Instead of just providing security at the perimeter of a network or an endpoint, HP is now attempting to enable applications to defend themselves as a cloud-based service. The new Application Defender platform is built […]

Seemingly every day this year, my inbox is bombarded with PR folks telling me about their clients’ opinion on the latest breach. In many cases, those breaches turn out to be non-trivial and quite real, as has been the case with Target, Goodwill and Home Depot. In some cases, those alleged breaches are not quite […]

Piston Cloud Computing today announced version 3.5 of its OpenStack cloud distribution, aimed at providing users with a new secure on-ramp to the cloud. Piston was co-founded by Joshua McKenty, who previously worked at NASA and was one of the key engineers that helped get the OpenStack Project started at the space agency. The Piston […]

Linux vendor Red Hat today announced the general availability of its Satellite 6 server management product, representing a new breed of technology that is different from its predecessors. The Satellite 5 and earlier series of server management technologies from Red Hat were largely based on the Spacewalk open-source project that Red Hat started in 2008. […]

Microsoft today released its September Patch Tuesday update, with Internet Explorer topping the list of vulnerabilities. This month, Microsoft is patching 37 vulnerabilities in IE, of which 36 were reported privately and one was publicly disclosed. Ross Barrett, senior manager of security engineering at Rapid7, told eWEEK that the September IE patch addresses one publicly […]

U.S. retail giant Home Depot publicly confirmed Sept. 8 that it was the victim of a data breach. Home Depot first disclosed that it was investigating a possible breach on Sept. 2 and has been working since then to figure out what, in fact, happened. Credit cards used at Home Depot stores in both the […]