Sean Michael Kerner

Linux vendor Red Hat is advancing its virtualization efforts today with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3. The RHEV 3.3 release is built on top of the open-source oVirt project, which is led by Red Hat. The new release adds support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 platform, improves performance and […]

It often takes real money to move virtualization technology forward, which is why open-source virtualization vendor Docker is now raising new funds. Docker announced today that it has raised $15 million in a new Series B round of funding led by Greylock Partners, with participation from Trinity Ventures, Benchmark and Insight Ventures. Total funding to […]

Security startup Bluebox Security has raised $18 million in a round of Series B funding to advance its vision for mobile security. Total funding for Bluebox Security now stands at $27.5 million. Bluebox rose to public notoriety in the summer of 2013 with the disclosure of what is known as the Android Master Key vulnerability—a […]

The Linux 3.13 kernel is now available, providing users of the open-source Linux operating system with the first major update of 2014. The Linux 3.13 kernel follows the Linux 3.12 kernel that was released in November of 2013. Among the new capabilities and features are a packet filtering technology, improved solid-state disk (SSD) storage capabilities […]

User information, whether it’s preferences for where you buy coffee or application passwords, can be a valuable commodity. That’s why it has long been a best practice to ensure that potentially sensitive data is not just stored or sent in the clear, without first being encrypted. A pair of incidents this past week helped highlight […]

IBM is a founding member of the OpenStack Foundation, which is an effort to build an open-source cloud platform. As a member, IBM both contributes code into OpenStack and provides guidance to the project through its participation in the foundation’s governance. IBM’s representative on the OpenStack Foundation board of directors is Todd Moore, whose day […]

Ever since U.S National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden first emerged in 2013 with scathing details about the scope of intelligence-gathering capabilities, American officials have been on the defensive. Today in a policy speech, President Barack Obama outlined a number of reforms to reassure both U.S citizens and foreign governments that NSA is not violating […]

The security breach at U.S. retailer Target in December has been the subject of intense scrutiny and speculation over the course of the last month. Few details were made public when Target first admitted to the security breach on Dec. 19, 2013. This month, little by little, scraps of information have emerged, including the disclosure […]

There are many different risks and attacks that IT professionals had to deal with in 2013, but no one technology was more abused or more culpable that Java, according to Cisco’s latest annual security report. The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report found that Java represented 91 percent of all Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) in 2013. […]

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can take on many different forms, as those who commit them leverage different techniques to drown Websites under a flood of traffic. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning of an increased risk from DDoS attacks that leverage the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to amplify the attack volume. […]

Cloud security vendor CipherCloud announced today that is has acquired privately held stealth startup CloudUp Networks. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. With the acquisition of CloudUp, CipherCloud gains enhanced data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities that provide improved security to cloud users. DLP technology tags and monitors content for access, restricting […]

The simplest way to avoid attacks and exploitations in the modern connected world is often just to pull the plug. When it comes to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), just pulling the plug isn’t enough, according to new details published this week. In a Jan. 14 New York Times report that was based on […]