Sean Michael Kerner

File sharing apps for Apple iOS mobile devices can potentially represent a security risk to users, according to a Trustwave security researcher. Bruno Goncalves de Oliveira, senior security consultant at Trustwave, explained to eWEEK that he conducted research into a number of Apple iOS file sharing apps that are commonly used by Apple iPhone and […]

When the U.S. National Security Agency scandal about online spying was first revealed, the defense offered by the NSA’s leadership was that it’s all being done in the name of national security. The latest revelations reveal that some of that defense involves taking offense by seeking to discredit radicals if they view adult content online.According […]

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 […]