Sean Michael Kerner

One of the most insightful indicators of developer sentiment and trends is the annual Stack Overflow developer survey.  The 2019 edition of the survey was released on April 10, based on responses from nearly 90,000 developers around the world. The modern world of development is often thought to be very fast moving, though the study […]

A new type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is abusing a common HTML5 attribute to overwhelm targeted victims. Security firm Imperva reported on April 11 that it has discovered a campaign where hackers abused the tag ping HTML5 attribute in a DDoS attack that generated 70 million requests in four hours. The ping attribute […]

Defending against potential cyber-attacks isn’t just about prevention; it’s also about having the resilience to respond and recover. Unfortunately, the majority of organizations aren’t properly prepared for cyber-security incident response, according to the 2019 Study on the Cyber Resilient Organization, released on April 11 by IBM Security. The report was conducted by the Ponemon Institute […]

The way Google sees it, one of the primary ways to grow cloud adoption is by increasing trust and security in the cloud. At its Google Next event on April 10, Google announced new and enhanced services that look to improve security in the cloud as well as provide better security and transparency of the […]

Google is not the only vendor with cloud news this week as the open-source OpenStack cloud platform is set to announce its Stein release on April 10. OpenStack is comprised of a series of inter-related projects that can be put together in different combinations, to enable a complete cloud deployment. In the OpenStack Stein milestone, […]

Millions of homes across America have Verizon’s Fios Quantum Gateway router as their primary conduit to the internet, and many of them could be at risk, according to new research from security firm Tenable. On April 9, Tenable publicly disclosed that it was able to find multiple vulnerabilities in the Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway (G1000) […]

Sysdig got its start as a technology provider for virtualized application visibility and has steadily expanded into cloud-native security. Now the company is looking to combine workload visibility and intelligence together with security controls in a new platform update. The Sysdig Cloud-Native Visibility and Security Platform (VSP) 2.0 release is set to be announced on […]

As the tax filing deadline of April 15 nears, attackers are ramping up their efforts to defraud Americans with a variety of scams. On April 8, IBM’s X-Force security research team reported a trio of sophisticated email campaigns that spoof major accounting and payroll firms in a bid to trick unsuspecting victims. The campaigns all […]

While there is no shortage of talk about the “dark web” where hackers use hidden sites to sell and exchange criminal tools and services, Cisco’s Talos security research unit found that there are literally hundreds of thousands of people interacting with cyber-criminal services in plain sight. In a report released on April 5, Cisco Talos […]

SUSE has gone through a number of transitions and ownership changes over the past two decades, and it’s now changing again, as the Linux vendor re-emerges as an independent vendor. At the SUSECON 2019 conference in Nashville, Tenn., which ran from April 2-4, SUSE’s management and executive teams outlined the vision for the company as […]

Once again, Facebook users are being warned about a data leak that could potentially expose them to risk, as over 540 million data records from the social network have been found publicly exposed in the cloud. The impact of the data disclosure is however being debated by one of the vendors that has been implicated […]

There is a security gap lurking within cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that could be exposing enterprises to risks that they don’t know about, according to AppOmni co-founder and CEO Brendan O’Connor. AppOmni officially emerged from stealth on April 3, bringing with it a new model for securing Cloud SaaS applications from potential data losses and […]