Sean Michael Kerner

IBM is set to announce the release of its new Guardium Analyzer security tool on June 5 to help organizations identify and protect sensitive personal information that might be subject to the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR is all about keeping personal end-user information private, but not all organizations always know […]

There was a time when Microsoft was the antithesis of everything that is open-source. On June 4, Microsoft announced that it is acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal that aims to help define Microsoft as a champion of open-source and operator of the world’s largest open-source code repository. While some are applauding Microsoft’s acquisition, there are […]

Cyber-security vendor Baffle announced an update to its Advanced Data Protection Service on June 4 that makes it possible for users to search encrypted data. The Baffle Advanced Data Protection service includes multiple components to help keep data private. Rather than having unencrypted data pass in and out of a database, Baffle’s technology encrypts data before […]

In November 2016, SonicWall got a new start as standalone company separate from its parent Dell. At the time, Bill Conner was brought in as the company’s new CEO and over the past 18 months has helped to direct the network security company forward. In a video interview with eWEEK, Conner talks about how SonicWall […]

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced on June 1 that Helm is now the group’s newest project. Open-source Helm is an increasingly adopted technology that enables operators to easily deploy applications into the cloud. Helm had been a sub-project of the Kubernetes container orchestration project but is becoming an incubation-level hosted project at the CNCF. […]

Bromium announced its Secure Platform 4.1 update on May 31, integrating specific use-case capabilities to help secure emails and web browsing. The specific use cases that Bromium Secure Platform 4.1 targets include email attachment protection, spear phishing protection, malicious download protection and native web browsing with the Chrome browser. “Prior versions did support these uses cases, […]

Botnets and automated distributed threats have been a growing problem in recent years. In a report to the president that was publicly released on May 30, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security detailed the status of botnet threats and provided direction on how to improve resiliency. The 51-page report comes […]

Good Tools Increasingly Used in Fileless Attacks, Carbon Black Finds Banks are among the most targeted industry verticals by cyber-criminals and with good reason—banks are literally where the money is. Security firm Carbon Black released a report on May 22 that provides insights into how hackers are going after banks. The “Modern Bank Heists: Cyberattacks […]

When the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed on Jan. 3, they set off a flurry of activity among IT users and cloud operators around the world. In a panel moderated by eWEEK at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, B.C., on May 24, operators detailed how they dealt with patching for Meltdown […]

A pair of Canadian banks reported on May 28 that they are investigating alleged data breaches that could impact up to 90,000 consumers.  The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s (CIBC) Simplii Financial division reported that approximately 40,000 of its customers are at risk, while in a separate incident the Bank of Montreal (BMO) said 50,000 […]

At one time or another, most IT users have been told that a possible solution to get technology working again is to simply reboot or power-cycle (unplug-replug) a given device. That’s the same advice the FBI issued on May 25 to help organizations and individuals defend against a malware attack known as VPNFilter. The VPNFilter […]

OpenStack Summit Vancouver Defines Open Infrastructure Efforts The first OpenStack Summit of 2018 ran from May 21-24, in Vancouver, B.C., highlighting both the open-source OpenStack cloud platform as well as an expanded array of open infrastructure efforts. At the event, the OpenStack Foundation announced the 1.0 version of Kata Containers, providing organizations with a new […]