Sean Michael Kerner

“Big data” is one of the hottest terms in IT today as organizations look to extract value from large volumes of unstructured content. With all that data available, proper controls and, more importantly, encryption must be in place to prevent abuse. That’s where new technology from Zettaset comes into play; the company is offering role-based […]

There are a lot of security threats facing mobile device users, and there is a lot of money on the table for vendors that are trying to provide solutions for that problem. One of those vendors is Mojave Networks, which this week announced a $5 million round of funding to fuel its enterprise-class mobile security […]

Open-source Web development organization Mozilla is patching its Firefox Web browser with a rare out-of-band update that addresses five security flaws. The new Firefox 25.0.1 update comes as Mozilla is gearing up its much-anticipated Australis user interface update that will overhaul the way the open-source browser looks. Mozilla moved to a rapid release cycle in […]

Nearly all mobile applications present a risk to users, according to a new report from Hewlett-Packard’s software division. In a study of 2,107 applications published by 601 companies on the Forbes Global 2000, HP found that 97 percent of the apps in some way accessed private information on the user’s device. HP scanned applications to […]

In early October, Adobe admitted that it was the victim of a breach that exposed the usernames and passwords of millions of its users. According to a report from Reuters published late Friday, the impact of the Adobe breach has been felt within the U.S. government. According to an FBI memo seen by Reuters, the […]

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, more commonly referred to as KVM, is one of the most popular open-source virtualization technologies in use today. Both IBM and Red Hat use it as the basis for their Linux virtualization technologies, and it is the most widely used virtualization technology in the OpenStack cloud as well. KVM was originally written […]

Amazon re:Invent: 10 Innovative Cloud Services Debut at the Event by Sean Michael Kerner CloudTrail Enables Cloud Auditing Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, kicked off the re:Invent conference with the announcement of CloudTrail, a service that logs all the API calls that are made to AWS resources. That logging information is […]

At the beginning of the PC era, Internet security was not much of a concern as people simply booted their machines and loaded programs without worry. In that earlier, more innocent era, the term “virus” was relegated strictly to the realm of clinical biology and only living things could actually get viruses. That all changed […]

In any given year, I see the names of a lot of different security researchers that come to prominence for one reason or another. In the last two years, one name that has risen to the top is that of a security researcher only publicly known by the alias “Pinkie Pie.” Pinkie Pie is the […]

While many see security as being a barrier to cloud adoption, the Cloud Security Alliance has a very different viewpoint. The CSA sees the cloud as being the technology platform that could extend and improve security across the IT landscape. Junaid Islam, founder and CTO of Vidder and a member of the CSA, told eWEEK […]

SUSE is expanding the support on its flagship Linux distribution from 10 years to 13 years. The enterprise Linux vendor is also expanding its partnership efforts with Microsoft as well as its ecosystem efforts to improve Linux drivers. Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager for SUSE, announced the new longer-term support for SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

Hewlett-Packard’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is hosting its first mobile Pwn2Own hacking competition in Japan this week, and both the Google Android and Apple iOS operating systems have already been compromised. The mobile Pwn2Own event is co-located at the PacSec Conference in Tokyo and offers the promise of $300,000 in prize money to researchers who […]