Sean Michael Kerner

So far, 2018 has been a very busy year for Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, which is in the business of acquiring software vulnerabilities from security researchers. Through the first six months of the year, ZDI has already published 600 security advisories. In contrast, in the first half of 2017, ZDI published 451 advisories. However, […]

Social media service Timehop publicly disclosed on July 8 that it was the victim of a data breach that impacts 21 million users. The breach was discovered by Timehop on July 4, though an investigation by the company revealed that attackers first gained unauthorized access to the system in December 2017. Timehop reported that names, […]

VMware is an active member of the open-source community, contributing its efforts to multiple projects and organizations. Helping to organize and lead VMware’s open-source initiatives is the company’s chief open source officer, Dirk Hohndel. In a video interview with eWEEK, Hohndel explains where open-source technologies are being used by VMware and how the company contributes […]

A new version of open-source content management system WordPress, 4.9.7, was released on July 5 that patches a pair of security vulnerabilities that could expose WordPress sites to risk. Both security vulnerabilities are arbitrary file deletion issues. Researchers at RIPS Tech publicly reported the first issue on June 26, while WordPress security firm Wordfence discovered […]

While many Americans were busy getting ready to celebrate the July 4 holiday, spammers were busy trying to trick unsuspecting victims into clicking on malicious Independence Day themed malware messages. It’s a familiar pattern—hackers attempting to trick unsuspecting victims into clicking on a link related to a holiday or major event. On July 3, email […]

After a 20-year career in the U.S Secret Service, Ed Cabrera joined Trend Micro in 2015, where he is now the chief cybersecurity officer, working with organizations to improve cybersecurity. Among the multiple challenges enterprises around the world face are ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, which represent more immediate risk than other forms […]

Enveil announced its ZeroReveal Compute Fabric technology on July 3, providing organizations with an encrypted data in-use platform that can protect against nation-state level threats. Ellison Anne Williams spent 12 years working as a senior researcher at the National Security Agency (NSA), helping to develop technologies to keep secrets safe. In 2016, Williams founded Enveil, […]

Fraudsters are increasingly using crypto-currency in money laundering activities around the world. In an effort to help combat that activity, cyber-security startup CipherTrace announced its Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Solution on July 3. CipherTrace is led by CEO Dave Jevans, who is well-known in the cyber-security industry as the chair of the Anti-Phishing Working Group […]

Typeform reported a data breach on June 29 that is impacting organizations and users of the company’s surveys-as-a-service platform. Typeform’s platform enables organizations to conduct online surveys, polls and quizzes to gain insight about end users. The platform also collects data on end users, including names and contact information. According to Typeform, payment information including credit […]

Micro Focus announced on July 2 that it is selling its SUSE business unit to growth investment firm EQT Partners for a total cash consideration of $2.535 billion. SUSE is a Germany-based Linux distribution vendor that has expanded into the growing market of cloud and container services. The company announced its latest flagship release of SUSE […]

Gentoo Linux reported on June 28 that its GitHub repository was breached, with attackers planting malicious code in the open-source Linux project’s account. The malware that was found on the Gentoo Linux GitHub project site was designed to specifically remove all of the files on a victim’s system. “Today 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC […]

DDoS Attacks Set New Record While Credential Abuse Attacks Decline Akamai released its State of the Internet Security Summer 2018 report on June 26, providing insight into the current state of web application and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The 28-page report takes a specific look at credential abuse attacks against the hotel and travel industry, […]