Sean Michael Kerner

Apple is now beginning to store its Chinese users’ data inside mainland China. According to a Reuters report, Apple is now working with China Telecom as a data center provider for Apple iCloud customers in China. Apple noted that data is encrypted and that China Telecom will not be able to access the data. Apple’s […]

Apple issued a pair of new Safari browser releases this week to fix memory-corruption vulnerabilities. Safari versions 7.0.6 and 6.16 were released Aug. 13 and provide fixes for seven different common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE), all affecting the WebKit rendering engine. WebKit is an open-source browser engine framework that is used within Safari. Until April […]

American consumers are being alerted to yet another large consumer data breach, this time at grocery supermarket chain Supervalu. In a public statement, Supervalu confirmed that that there was a payment card breach and consumer information may have been stolen from 180 Supervalu-affiliated stores across the United States. Supervalu has posted a full list of […]

There has been a lot of momentum surrounding the growth of the open-source Docker container virtualization technology, but few vendors have directly addressed the issue of data storage. ClusterHQ is now building a technology called Flocker to solve the Docker data challenge. Flocker is the result of more than five years of research, development and […]

VeriSign Sees Sharp Climb in DDoS Attack Volume in Q2 by Sean Michael Kerner Average Quarterly Peak Attack Size Growing In the second quarter, the average quarterly peak attack size hit 12.42G bps, up from only 3.17G bps in the second quarter of 2013. Largest Attack Was 300G bps The largest attack VeriSign saw in […]

CoreOS today announced the acquisition of Quay.io, a privately held Docker container repository service. Financial terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed. Quay provides private repositories for Docker container apps, which is also something that Docker Inc., the lead commercial vendor behind the open-source Docker project also provides. Docker is an increasingly popular open-source […]

The open-source Docker container technology has continued to build momentum this year as a new way to deploy virtualized applications. Yet actually getting Docker up and running across multiple hosts, loading applications and managing the whole process can still be a challenge for some organizations, which is where the new Panamax effort comes into play. […]

Microsoft today delivered its monthly Patch Tuesday update, providing fixes for 37 unique common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs)—26 of which affect Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The 25 CVEs for IE are all patched inside the MS14-051 security bulletin. In the bulletin, Microsoft notes that 25 of the CVEs were privately reported and one CVE was previously […]

Red Hat came out today with a beta release of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 (RHEL 6.6) platform. The new beta follows Red Hat’s June release of RHEL 7 and inherits a few of its features. “The feature list for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ties closely to the feature list from the GA […]

Startup cloud vendor Platform9 emerged from stealth mode today with $4.5 million in Series A funding and a plan that company officials believe will reshape the private cloud marketplace. Platform9’s technology is based on the open-source OpenStack cloud platform and provides a service-based approach that enables enterprises to create their own private cloud deployments. Sirish […]

Black Hat, Defcon Conferences: From Hackers to Pwnie Awards By Sean Michael Kerner Hail Caesar! Black Hat Has Left the Building In 2014, Black Hat moved from Caesars Palace to the more spacious Mandalay Bay hotel and conference center Keynote Makes Radical Suggestions Security luminary Dan Geer was the only keynote speaker at the Black […]

In the world of security penetration testing, researchers often rely on stealth and deception when testing a target. At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas, a new level of penetration testing deception was demonstrated Aug. 8 with a WiFi hacking device that could be hidden in what appears to be a standard carbon monoxide […]