Sean Michael Kerner

While containers and Kubernetes are among the hottest areas in application deployment, enterprises are still deploying virtual machines and hypervisors. To help support the continued demand for virtualization, Red Hat announced its Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 update on May 15. The RHV update benefits from a new user interface that was developed in the open-source […]

Barracuda Networks announced its cloud-delivered Web Application Firewall (WAF) service on May 16, providing organizations with a new approach to managing and deploying application security. The Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offering builds on the company’s existing WAF products, which include both physical and virtual appliances. The cloud-delivered version of the WAF, however, offers organizations new ways to […]

Number of Vulnerabilities Grows in 1Q18 but So Does Pace of Disclosure The first quarter of 2018 was not a great start to the year in terms of the total number of reported security vulnerabilities. Risk Based Security released its first-quarter 2018 Vulnerability QuickView Report on May 15, detailing the state of vulnerabilities thus far […]

Organizations are looking at the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in a positive light, according to an IBM study released on May 16. The study, titled “The end of the beginning: Unleashing the transformational power of GDPR,” surveyed over 1,500 business leaders from around the world. Fifty-nine percent of the respondents see GDPR as […]

SailPoint announced version 6.0 of SecurityIQ on May 15, as the identity governance vendor kicked off its Navigate 18 customer conference in Austin, Texas. SecurityIQ, SailPoint’s identity governance platform, helps organizations with both compliance requirements and security by enabling them to gain better visibility into how applications and data are accessed. The new release expands […]

Restaurant chain Chili’s is the latest retailer to report a data breach involving point of sale (PoS) security. Brinker International, which operates over 1,600 Chili’s restaurants globally, announced the data breach on May 12, after becoming aware of the security incident the day before. The company did not reveal how many customers have been impacted […]

Security researchers on May 14 announced a new set of vulnerabilities—dubbed Efail—in the widely deployed S/MIME and OpenPGP email encryption technologies. In a 21-page academic paper, the researchers from Munster University, Ruhr University Bochum and KU Leuven detail Efail, which could potentially enable an attacker to read emails that have been encrypted with the OpenPGP and […]

On May 12, 2017, the ransomware attack known as WannaCry was first reported, ushering in a new generation of ransomware worm attacks. WannaCry impacted organizations around the world, and its legacy continues today.  Within the first few hours of its attack, WannaCry shut down hospitals in United Kingdom and was infecting files at Spanish telecom firm […]

Red Hat Announces OpenShift Products, Partnerships at Annual Summit Linux vendor Red Hat used its Red Hat Summit, which ran from May 8-10 in San Francisco, to highlight new product announcements and partner integrations. A key theme of the event was the continued growth of the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system, which Red Hat productizes […]

Two-factor authentication is a commonly used method to minimize the risks of password phishing attacks. However, 2FA itself has the potential to be spoofed and bypassed by an attacker, according to security awareness and training vendor KnowBe4. In publicly posted video, Kevin Mitnick, chief hacking officer at KnowBe4, demonstrates a method by which he was able to […]

Major operating system vendors including Microsoft, Apple and Linux distributions somehow misinterpreted Intel documentation about a hardware debugging feature and ended up exposing users to potential risk.  The flaw, which has been identified as CVE-2018-8897, was publicly reported on May 8, though impacted vendors were notified on April 30 and have already released patches. The flaw could […]

Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO declared during Red Hat Summit 2017 that in the modern enterprise, old school planning is dead. At Red Hat Summit 2018 in San Francisco May 9, Whitehurst returned to that same topic, providing insights into how modern, agile enterprises are enabling both executives and staff to thrive in a world […]