Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat today announced Matthew Miller as the new leader of its Fedora community Linux project. Miller takes over for Robyn Bergeron, who announced on May 19 that she was stepping down as Fedora Project Leader. Miller is well-known and respected in the Fedora Linux community for a number of reasons. His first involvement with […]

There is a new outbreak of activity from a hacking effort FireEye has dubbed “Molerats,” the security firm is reporting. FireEye has been seeing Molerats activity since October 2012 and saw a specific uptick in activity between April 29 and May 27 of this year, with attacks targeting a U.S. financial institution as well as […]

If the modern landscape for information security can be described as a battleground, then it makes sense that the right people to lead technology security efforts have military backgrounds. To that end, cloud hosting vendor Firehost last week announced that retired U.S. Army Col. Jeff Schilling is now the company’s new chief security officer (CSO). […]

The Linux Foundation is making good on its promise to help prevent the next Heartbleed before it happens. On April 24, the Linux Foundation announced its Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) to fund open-source projects, and it is now providing details on which projects it will initially help to secure. The Heartbleed security flaw, disclosed April […]

Sometimes, when difficulties arise in an open-source project, the effort is forked, but in other cases, projects just shut down. For the open-source TrueCrypt disk-encryption project, the latter is now true as the project is shutting down and users are being warned that the technology is no longer secure. The TrueCrypt project is hosted on […]

A report published on May 28 by iSight Partners alleges that a widespread social media attack campaign has been undertaken by Iran against organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. Dubbed “Newscaster” by iSight Partners, a global provider of cyber-threat intelligence, the social media campaign involves multiple layers of deception, as attackers […]

Attackers are actively leveraging the Heartbleed vulnerability as part of spam campaigns and security specialist Symantec is warning about the dangers of the latest spam campaign, which plays on users’ fear of Heartbleed by masquerading as an attempt to help users secure themselves from the security flaw. The Heartbleed encryption flaw, publicly disclosed April 7, […]

The open-source WordPress blogging and content management system technology is potentially at risk from attackers that go after insecure cookies. Yan Zhu, the staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) who publicly exposed the risks, warned in a May 23 blog post of the risks from insecure cookies in WordPress. “As mom always said, […]

Security firm Avast has shut down its online user forum after it was breached by attackers over the weekend. Avast CEO Vince Steckler publicly acknowledged the breach—in which usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords were stolen—in a blog post on May 26. No financial systems or payment information for Avast users were impacted by the […]

Apple users across Australia are reporting being victims of a widespread attack in which their iPhones, iPads and other iOS devices are being locked and held for ransom. Apple support communities list several threads on the ransomware attack. “I went to check my phone and there was a message on the screen (it’s still there) […]

The Internet is a global network that connects most of the planet, but in its most basic form, the Web only connects the world at a networking level, enabling disparate endpoints to connect to servers and to each other. The Internet today doesn’t have a planetary-scale cloud operating system, where applications and policy can move […]

Earlier this month, Hewlett-Packard announced its new $1 billion Helion Cloud effort as the company’s own OpenStack cloud distribution. It’s a move that redefines HP’s approach to the cloud and how it plans to be a key player in the marketplace. In a video interview with eWEEK, Bill Hilf, vice president of product management for […]