Sean Michael Kerner

Online auction giant eBay this week revealed that one of its databases had been breached and advised its users to update passwords. However, passwords are not necessarily the weak link for eBay’s security. The eBay breach has generated a lot of interest and discussion about the modern state and usefulness of passwords. Some experts advocate […]

Security Picture Shows Less Spam, Java as Top Exploit by Sean Michael Kerner Spam Volumes Fall Sharply Spam as a percentage of total in-bound email is on a downward trend, declining from 93 percent in 2008 to 70 percent in 2013. U.S. Is Top Source of Attackers and Victims The United States is the most […]

There is a new zero-day vulnerability for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser that could potentially be leaving millions of users at risk. Unlike most zero-days, which are typically disclosed by researchers who have discovered an attack in progress, this IE zero-day is being disclosed by Hewlett-Packard. Going a step further, unlike many zero-day vulnerabilities, the […]

The Safari 7.0.4 and 6.1.4 updates debuted on May 21, providing users with 21 security updates. All 21 of the security issues impact Safari’s WebKit rendering engine and are various forms of memory corruption-related issues. The new Safari updates follow Apple’s Safari 7.0.3 release in April, which also had a strong Google influence. Among the […]

OpenStack Summit Helped Bring the Cloud to Earth by Sean Michael Kerner OpenStack Heralds Beginning of Software-Defined Economy Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, kicked off the OpenStack Summit with a keynote about the modern state of IT and where his organization fits in. He said we’re now not living in an agile […]

Nebula is an OpenStack cloud company that was founded by Chris Kemp, the former CTO of NASA and one of founders of OpenStack itself. In September 2013, Kemp brought Gordon Stitt, the former CEO of Extreme Networks, onboard to become the new CEO of Nebula. In a video interview with eWEEK, the two Nebula leaders […]

Online e-commerce and auction giant eBay today publicly acknowledged that its systems were breached in a cyber-attack. The attack compromised a database in late February and early March of this year, although eBay noted that it only detected the incident two weeks ago. The compromised database did not contain personal or financial information, according to […]

The U.S. government took legal aim at five officers of the Chinese military on May 19, alleging that they were attacking American companies. The move is unique as it marks the first time the United States has ever tried to sue another country for hacking. During a press conference yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder […]

In February 2012, Robyn Bergeron was named Fedora Project Leader for the Red Hat-sponsored community Linux Fedora Project. On May 19, Bergeron announced her intention to transition out of the Fedora Project Leader role. Bergeron has not publicly disclosed when her last day will be as Fedora Project Leader, and Red Hat has not yet […]

Ubuntu, Puppet, Grizzly Play Key Roles in OpenStack Deployments by Sean Michael Kerner Tim Bell Helps Lead the User Committee Tim Bell, Operating System and Infrastructure Service team lead at CERN, is one of the leaders of the OpenStack User Committee and is helping to foster a feedback loop from users to developers. The U.S. […]

The open-source OpenStack Foundation isn’t just out to remake the cloud; it’s also trying to do its part to help enable a new software-defined economy as well. That’s one of the key messages that emerged from the OpenStack Juno Summit that was held May 12-16 in Atlanta. In a video interview at the Summit, executives […]

For the first time ever, the U.S. government is taking legal aim at China for hacking American companies. In an indictment filed today, Chinese military officers Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu and Gu Chunhui, attached to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 61398, were named as being allegedly responsible for attacking […]