Sean Michael Kerner

Event ticket retailer Ticketmaster publicly disclosed a data breach at its United Kingdom division on June 27 that involved a subset of its global customer base. Ticketmaster is downplaying the impact of the incident, noting that less than 5 percent of its global customer base is at risk from the breach. In addition, Ticketmaster specifically […]

VMware has long been synonymous with its own server virtualization technology, though the company is now also strongly invested in containers and Kubernetes services. On June 27, VMware announced the beta release of its VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE) service, providing organizations with a new option for running containers. On June 28, VMware along with Pivotal […]

The Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC) announced a new effort dubbed the “London Protocol” on June 27 in a bid to help improve identity assurance for web security certificates. The London Protocol benefits from the support of multiple Certificate Authority (CA) vendors, including Comodo CA, Entrust Datacard, GlobalSign, GoDaddy and Trustwave. The London Protocol is a […]

The Kubernetes 1.11 release is set to become generally available on June 27, providing users of the container orchestration system with networking, configuration and operations improvements. Among the highlights of Kubernetes 1.11 is the CoreDNS domain name service reaching general availability. The IPVS load balancing feature has now also reached general availability status in Kubernetes […]

Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 61 on June 26, providing users of the open-source web browser with new features and patches for 18 security vulnerabilities. The Firefox 61 milestone comes just over a month since Firefox 60 was released on May 9 and is the fourth major update of Mozilla’s flagship browser thus far […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance officially announced the launch of the WiFi Certified WPA3 wireless security technology late on June 25, providing next-generation WiFi security capabilities. WPA3 is the successor to the widely deployed WPA2 WiFi security model that was launched in September 2004. WPA2 has been found to have multiple weaknesses including the KRACK vulnerabilities that were […]

SUSE announced its Enterprise Linux 15 and SUSE Manager 3.2 updates on June 25, ushering in the next generation of enterprise Linux technologies from the Germany-based Linux vendor. SUSE Enterprise Linux 15 is the first time since 2014 that SUSE has changed the major version for its flagship platform. While SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 was […]

Accenture Security acquired VeriSign’s iDefense Security Intelligence Services in 2017 and has worked over the past year to integrate the threat capabilities it provides. For Tom Parker, managing director of Accenture Security, threat intelligence along with coached breach simulations are key steps to helping organizations improve cyber-resilience. In a video interview with eWEEK, Parker discusses […]

Business process management (BPM) technology helps organizations with operations management issues and processes. Among the vendors that develop and support BPM technology is Red Hat, which released its Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7 update on June 19. The new release extends the BPM platform to Red Hat’s OpenShift Kubernetes container platform. It also adds […]

Linux Mint 19 Improves Update Process With Timeshift Backup Tool Linux Mint 19, code-named “Tara,” is expected to become generally available by the end of June, bringing a host of updates to the popular Linux desktop distribution. Linux Mint 19 is based on the Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver” operating system and provides multiple desktop choices, […]

Cyber-security firm Cylance has had a busy week, announcing a $120 million funding round on June 19, an alliance with KPMG on June 20 and new products including CylanceHYBRID and CylanceON-PREM on June 21. The new funding comes as Cylance seeks to expand its market presence, as competition in the cyber-security sector continues to grow. Rival […]

IBM announced on June 21 that is it expanding its cloud-native capabilities, enabling the Kubernetes-based IBM Cloud Private platform to run on the company’s Cloud Managed Services offering. The new capability brings together IBM’s recently launched Cloud Private platform with the managed CMS offering to help enterprises adopt container-based, cloud-native application models. “CMS is a […]