Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser once was limited to just desktop and notebook computers running on top of existing operating systems, but that’s no longer the case. In a series of announcements today at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mozilla announced new Firefox OS efforts to bring the open-source browser operating system to […]

Security is one of the great market segments of the technology world as it’s not typically driven by seasonality or cyclical demands. Security needs are constant and evolving. Simply put, no enterprise on the planet can afford not to invest continuously in security—for fear of being attacked and embarrassed in a public breach. It’s in […]

In July 2010, Rackspace’s Jim Curry helped to found the open-source OpenStack platform. It’s an effort that now has the support of many of the world’s leading IT vendors and is a key technology option for deployment of public and private clouds around the world. In a video interview with eWEEK, Curry, senior vice president […]

Security Horizon: Mobile Malware Up, U.S.-Based Infections Down by Sean Michael Kerner Mobile Malware Rises According to Kaspersky, mobile malware continued to grow in 2013, particularly during the last half of the year. However, PC malware is a significantly larger problem, with more than 315,000 malware samples analyzed every day. Trojans: Most Popular Form of […]

Security is often cited as a top concern for any organization looking to move to the cloud, and it’s a concern that is top of mind this week at cloud hosting vendor Digital Ocean. Developer Jeffrey Paul first raised the issue of data security on Digital Ocean in a Github post earlier this week. Paul […]

Seven Tech Companies That Changed Their Names in 2013 by Sean Michael Kerner Research In Motion Becomes BlackBerry At the beginning of 2013, beleaguered smartphone vendor Research In Motion announced its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and devices. As part of the launch event, RIM announced that it was renaming the company BlackBerry. DotCloud Becomes […]

In a brazen attack to kick off the brand-new year, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker group briefly took control of the Microsoft Skype service blog as well as its Facebook and Twitter accounts Jan. 1. The SEA is an online hacktivist group that is loosely affiliated with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. […]

One of the great technology industry success stories that has emerged during eWEEK’s existence is the rise of the open-source Linux operating system. Linux started from humble beginnings in Finland, born in the brilliant mind of creator Linus Torvalds and has emerged to become a dominant force in the modern IT landscape. Linux today is […]

Disasters and equipment failures can happen at any time, anywhere, and enterprise IT administrators need to properly prepare for them. This past week, NASA fixed an equipment failure aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and while it operates in a very different environment from data centers here on Earth, its operations can serve as a […]

Apple’s iPhone is one of the most popular devices on the planet, and its popularity has made it a target for exploitation by the U.S. National Security Agency. In a presentation at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany, on Dec. 30, security researcher Jacob Appelbaum discussed multiple exploits in the NSA’s catalog of vulnerable […]

U.S. retail giant Target is still reeling from the impact of a massive data breach affecting 40 million credit and debit card accounts, though the company is now emphasizing that things are not quite as bad as some might think. Target publicly acknowledged on Dec. 19 that its U.S. retail stores had been the victim […]

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has its own catalog of vulnerabilities that it uses to exploit commercial networking gear in order to insert backdoors to conduct surveillance, according to a report published this weekend in German news magazine Der Spiegel. The report is based on materials leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and details […]