Sean Michael Kerner

One of the biggest security challenges that face enterprises today is real-time visibility and threat detection. It’s a challenge that Tanium is aiming to solve, aided in part by a $90 million investment from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Though Tanium is making a big splash today, thanks to its funding news, the company was […]

Nearly three months after the Heartbleed security vulnerability was first reported, its impact is still being felt. It’s the kind of excitement that IT pros don’t need. One month after the Heartbleed vulnerability was disclosed, security researcher Robert Graham reported that he found 318,239 systems still at risk. On June 21, he reported that he […]

The Reuters Website on June 22 was briefly impacted by an attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The SEA is a Syrian activist group loosely affiliated with the government of Bashar al-Assad and is no stranger to attacking media outlets to get its messages out. In the attack, the SEA didn’t exploit the […]

Rackspace aims to shake up the cloud market with the launch of its new OnMetal OpenStack cloud service that enables users to directly provision physical hardware. The promise of the cloud is highly available, elastic computing power that is available on-demand. For the most part, that promise has been enabled through the use of virtualization […]

Twenty-eight years ago, David Farajun had a problem, his hard drive failed and he needed to recover data. That experience led Farajun to the revelation that there needed to be a better way to handle data recovery, which led the to creation of his company: Asigra. In a video interview with eWEEK, Farajun details his […]

The popular Ancestry.com genealogy Website was impacted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started at 2:30 p.m. PT on June 16 and was resolved by 4:15 p.m. PT on June 17. While the motives behind the DDoS incident are not yet publicly known, the attack once again shines the spotlight on the increasing prevalence […]

Open-source identity-relationship management (IRM) vendor ForgeRock today announced that it has raised $30 million in a new round of funding, bringing total funding to date up to $52 million. The goal of the new $30 million funding round is to help the company expand globally and drive the adoption of IRM technology—technology developed by Sun […]

10 Quick Facts About Docker Container Virtualization By Sean Michael Kerner Solomon Hykes Created the Project Solomon Hykes launched the Docker project in March 2013 and currently serves as the CTO of Docker Inc. Ben Golub Is CEO of Docker Docker Inc. is the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Docker project. Ben Golub serves […]

LinkedIn has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular online social networking sites and, as such, is a target for hackers and security researchers alike. Zuk Avraham, founder and CEO of Zimperium, alleges in a new report that LinkedIn has left its users exposed to potential exploitation, due to the way the […]

One of the basic ideas behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is that they provide a decentralized form of currency that ensures privacy and security. Events this week seem to point the other way, however, showing that cryptocurrencies aren’t quite as decentralized as first thought and might well be a vehicle for user exploitation. With a decentralized […]

Red Hat today announced the acquisition of privately held eNovance in a deal that brings one of the top OpenStack cloud contributors into the Red Hat fold. The deal is valued at approximately 50 million euros in cash and 20 million euros in shares of Red Hat common stock, which converts to approximately $95 million […]

A year ago, U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden opened the world’s eyes to the issue of mass surveillance. In the post-Snowden era, whistleblowers aren’t the only way the world is learning about the nuances of government surveillance—court actions are also proving to be a source of illumination. A legal challenge from civil liberties […]