Sean Michael Kerner

There are many hundreds of developers who contribute code to the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. For the recent OpenStack Havana release, the top developer as measured by the volume of code commits was Monty Taylor, distinguished engineer at Hewlett-Packard. In a video interview with eWEEK, Taylor explains what he actually does at HP and how […]

As throngs of shoppers prepare to descend on shopping malls and retail stores during the holiday period, it’s important to remember to be safe with your wallet. In the modern world, keeping safe is now evolving from just keeping an eye on your purchases and your physical wallet to being aware of unseen digital risks […]

The modern world of virtualization has largely been dominated with virtual machine hypervisor technologies like VMware, KVM and Xen, but there are alternatives. Among them is the increasingly popular Docker open-source container technology. Docker issued the 0.7 release of its namesake technology today, expanding the base of its support to all major Linux distributions. In […]

Twitter is now deploying a robust form of security, known as Forward Secrecy for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, in a bid to further secure its users. Forward Secrecy is not a new idea, though its widespread implementation has been lacking. SSL technology is the foundation for most Web security, providing encryption for data transport. […]

Although security vendors continue to do their best to conquer malware, malware authors continue to up the ante. According to Panda Labs’ third-quarter 2013 report, new malware creation is now at an all-time high. PandaLabs reported that from January to September 2013, there have been nearly 10 million new malware strains identified, which is as […]

In March, an anonymous researcher published a report dubbed the Internet Census, which was conducted by exploiting more than a million embedded devices with the Carna Botnet. Full details from that same anonymous researcher on the devices that were exploited had not publicly been revealed—until now. Parth Shukla, information security analyst in the Operations Centre […]

While there is a certain amount of focus by security vendors on zero-day threats that have not yet been patched, networking giant Cisco Systems doesn’t want people to forget about the need for good Internet hygiene to protect against all the other types of online threats. In a press briefing today, Craig Williams, technical leader […]

In the modern world there has been a lot of emphasis on digital security to prevent fraud, but it’s important to remember that online fraud also includes use of the telephone. According to a new report from Pindrop Security, the volume of consumer complaints about phone fraud in the first six months of 2013 has […]

Back in 1984 during the early days of PC Week, Unix was not a new operating system, but it was an operating system that was just beginning to take root in the mainstream of enterprise computing. Unix was first developed in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. But it was during the mid-1980s when its commercial […]

Hundreds of millions of users around the world freely benefit from Mozilla technologies, including Mozilla’s open-source Firefox Web browser, but that doesn’t mean Mozilla isn’t making any money. Mozilla announced its 2012 earnings this week, reporting record revenue of $311 million. That figure is a far cry from where Mozilla started. In 1998, Netscape (remember […]

openSUSE 13.1: What’s New in the Latest Linux Distribution by Sean Michael Kerner OpenSUSE Is Open-Source Software There are hundreds of different components that make up the openSUSE 13.1 Linux distribution. In one of the first screens of the installation process, users get the License Agreement page, which outlines the open-source component licenses that make […]

If the saying “time is money” is true, then the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (RHEL) release is very valuable. RHEL 6.5 first made its public appearance as a beta in early October and is now ready for general availability. The RHEL 6.5 release is the second milestone update for Red Hat’s flagship platform […]