Sean Michael Kerner

Back in October 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation took down the Silk Road Website. At the time, precise details of how the FBI was able to track down the Silk Road’s owner and operator were not disclosed. A new court declaration made by former FBI agent Christopher Tarbell in the U.S. District Court for […]

Last week, the technology world was buzzing about the celebrity picture hack that involved Apple’s iCloud service. While Apple is now making attempts to improve user security, other online services have too. LinkedIn, for one, has announced multiple steps it is taking to improve user security. For starters, LinkedIn will now provide users with full […]

The Healthcare.gov Website was breached in an attack, but government officials claim no personal information was stolen. The attack, disclosed in The Wall Street Journal Sept. 4, reportedly occurred in July but it wasn’t noticed by government officials until Aug. 25. The attack was targeted at a test server, where development code is first loaded […]

The open-source WordPress blogging and content management system received a major update Sept. 4. WordPress 4.0 provides improved stability and bug fixes as well as multiple usability improvements. WordPress has emerged in recent years to become one of the most popular CMS technologies in use today. WordPress is available as a free publicly hosted platform […]

Hackers Continue Their Assault on Retailers: 10 High-Profile Breaches by Sean Michael Kerner 70 Million Target Customers Impacted by Breach Target first confirmed that it had been breached on Dec. 19, 2013. Initially, 40 million consumers were thought to be at risk, but Target revised the number upward to 70 million. The current price tag […]

Docker has emerged in the last year to become one of the most talked about virtualization technologies, but getting it up and running can take some effort. Today, CoreOS announced that its Docker-focused Linux distribution is freely available as an image that can be deployed on the popular DigitalOcean cloud service, lowering the barrier to […]

Goodwill Industries confirmed on Sept. 3 that it was in fact the victim of a data breach; surprisingly, however, that breach is not the result of Backoff point-of-sale (PoS) malware. The Goodwill breach was initially reported on in July by eWEEK and other media outlets as being under investigation by Goodwill and the U.S. Secret […]

On June 3, Matthew Miller was named as the new Fedora Project Leader, succeeding the outgoing Robyn Bergeron. Over the last several months, Miller has settled into his role of running Red Hat’s community project and is overseeing one of the biggest changes in the project’s history. In a video interview with eWEEK, Miller details […]

At 2:30 ET on Sept. 2, Apple did something it normally does not do: It issued an emergency media advisory about a security risk to its users. The risk had been reported on by multiple media outlets, including eWEEK, over the previous 48 hours, as Hollywood celebrities had their personal privacy invaded and images stolen, […]

U.S. home improvement retail giant Home Depot could potentially be the latest victim of a data breach at its stores. “At this point, I can confirm that we’re looking into some unusual activity and we are working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate,” a Home Depot spokesperson wrote in an email to […]

Mozilla is out today with its Firefox 32 release, providing users of the open-source Web browser with new security fixes and features. Firefox 32 now provides support for public-key pinning, which enables enhanced security for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate authenticity. “Key pinning allows site operators to specify which certificate authorities [CAs] may issue valid […]

10 Most Popular New Top-Level Domains by Sean Michael Kerner Guru Tops the List At the end of the first quarter, the .guru TLD was the leading new domain. Donuts is the registry behind .guru, and many different registrars, including Registerdomains.guru, sell individual domains. Berlin Gets Its Own TLD Germany’s capital, Berlin, now has its […]