Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat announced today that Microsoft .NET applications can now run on its open-source OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology. Since its inception in 2011, Red Hat’s OpenShift has enabled open-source programming languages including Python, PHP and Ruby to run, but until today .NET was not a real option for users. The OpenShift support for .NET, however, […]

The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is officially gaining a new supporter today, with the announcement that GoDaddy is now supporting the OpenStack Foundation. GoDaddy, one of the largest Web hosting providers in the world, offers shared hosting as well as virtual private server and domain registration services. In supporting the OpenStack Foundation, GoDaddy joins an […]

Once again, security researchers are pointing an accusing finger at small office/home office (SOHO) routers as being vulnerable to exploitation. This time the research group is Team Cymru, and the report claims that more than 300,000 devices have been infected. The infected devices are mostly in Europe and Asia and involve overwritten DNS settings. DNS […]

Hewlett-Packard and its Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) effort sponsor the Pwn2Own contest every year at the CanSecWest conference. At Pwn2Own, independent security researchers square off against each other hacking Web browsers for prize money. Never before has HP’s own researchers participated in the actual hacking contest, but that is now set to change. HP is […]

Databases are among the most often attacked pieces of enterprise computing technology as they are the places where the information that attackers want tends to be kept. It’s a situation that Josh Shaul, director of product management at Trustwave, is well aware of, which is why he spoke at length in a session at last […]

Malware known as “RAM scraper” software routinely infiltrates retail environments and steals information, according to researchers from security firm Sophos. In a session titled “Buy Candy, Lose Your Credit Card—Investigating POS RAM Scraping Malware” late last month at the RSA Conference, Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos, detailed the current risk landscape for retail […]

From Monday, Feb. 24 to Friday, Feb. 28, I was trapped in the bowels of the Moscone Center at the RSA Conference here and listened to vendors large and small sell their wares and preach wisdom on the state of modern IT security. For the most part, it was an endless drumbeat of repetitive claims […]

RSA Conference Draws Crowds, Government and Security Industry Bigwigs by Sean Michael Kerner Art Coviello Defends His Company Rather than shy away from the controversy of his firm’s involvement with the NSA, Coviello tackled it head on. “Has RSA done work with the NSA? Yes, but that fact has been a matter of public record […]

Mt. Gox, the one-time leading exchange for Bitcoin in the world, has declared bankruptcy after suffering a technical meltdown and hacker attack that robbed its users of 750,000 Bitcoins. The Wall St. Journal estimated the value of the theft at $473 million. The first signs of trouble at Mt. Gox appeared on Feb. 7 when […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey came to the RSA Conference here with a message: The FBI wants to work with the tech industry to make everyone safer. Cyber-security threats are at the top of the list of risks that face the United States, and the FBI is taking them very seriously, Comey […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Art Gilliland, Hewlett-Packard’s senior vice president and general manager for enterprise security, is very knowledgeable about the world of security but knows he’s not immune from being a target, too. In an exclusive video interview with eWEEK at the RSA Conference here, Gilliland discussed HP’s security strategy and why there is no silver-bullet single-product […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The RSA security conference here is all about helping to educate and give people the tools to be safe in the modern digital world. In a stroke of potential irony, however, the conference might not necessarily be practicing what it preaches. For one, unlike some of the other major tech conferences that I attend, […]