Sean Michael Kerner

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 […]

One of most noteworthy open-source stories of 2013 was the audacious attempt by Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, to crowdfund $32 million in 30 days to fund a next-generation Linux phone. It’s an effort that did not reach its target. In a video interview with eWEEK, Shuttleworth described the Ubuntu Edge campaign as a […]

The big security news of the day is that U.S. retail giant Target had a massive in-store data breach that compromised the information of 40 million credit and debit card customers. It’s a bad situation and one that triggers a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). Target customers are obviously concerned that they could […]

The Red Hat version of the OpenStack is a separate edition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform that has been customized and optimized for deployment of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. Red Hat had initially intended to provide an OpenStack solution that would then run on top of existing RHEL deployments, but changed […]

U.S. retailer Target quite literally has a target painted on itself, and it’s one that attackers are now confirmed to have hit in one of the largest data breaches on record. Target admitted today that approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts are at risk from the breach. The affected accounts were compromised between […]