Sean Michael Kerner

Data is stolen or leaked out from organizations on a regular basis to various criminal sites, often referred to as the Dark Web. While identifying lost or stolen data on the regular web is commonplace since the data can be found, finding things on the Dark Web can be a more challenging exercise, given that […]

A fully patched Firefox was no match for researchers at the Pwn2Own competition, though Mozilla found itself up to the task and has already patched the two issues found in its web browser. Firefox wasn’t the only thing hacked at Pwn2Own as researchers were also able to exploit the internet browser on a Tesla Model […]

Few, if any, 6-year-old technologies have done as much to change the way applications are built and deployed as Docker. Docker, the eponymous name of the container technology and the company behind it, celebrated its six-year anniversary on March 20. From its earliest days, even as just a 1-year-old effort back in 2014, there was no […]

In a shocking admission on March 21, Facebook revealed that it left “hundreds of millions” of user passwords exposed and unencrypted on several internal Facebook systems. Facebook has not publicly disclosed how long the passwords were left unencrypted, though the company stated that it has no evidence that the passwords were ever visible to anyone […]

Day in and day out, vendors do their best to keep their software patched and free from zero-day vulnerabilities. Then along comes the annual Pwn2Own competition and within minutes, elite researchers are able to demonstrate new zero-day flaws. The first day of Pwn2Own 2019 on March 20 in Vancouver, Canada, saw researchers reveal new zero-day […]

While the cyber-security threat landscape is generally thought to change from year to year, some things, as it turns out, remain unchanged. According to a report released March 19 from Recorded Future that analyzes the top vulnerabilities of the past year, one of the key trends is that the same vulnerabilities keep showing up. The […]

Portworx announced the latest edition of its namesake cloud-native storage and data management platform on March 20, providing users with new security and disaster recovery capabilities. Portworx Enterprise 2.1 integrates a new feature the company has dubbed PX-Security, which provides granular role-based access controls that go beyond what are natively available in the open-source Kubernetes cloud-native […]

Mozilla released the Firefox 66 update on March 19, providing users of the open-source web browser with new features that enhance user experience and improve security. Among Firefox 66’s new features is one that blocks websites from auto-playing sound, which can be an annoyance. Also, the search feature within the browser has been improved with […]

Email security is top of mind for many organizations, with one of the primary threats coming from a type of attack known as spear phishing. Phishing is a well-understood type of email threat where attackers send unsolicited email with some kind of hook to attract and trick a victim into clicking a link that can […]

In a video interview with eWEEK, Ghai discusses his views on trust, where the concept of an artificial intelligence “digital twin” fits in and why there could well be a need to redefine industry cyber-security categories to better reflect how risk management technologies should work.

Managing identity privileges across multi-cloud environments is not an easy task and is an area that is in need of innovation, according to Balaji Parimi, founder and CEO of CloudKnox Security. Parimi started CloudKnox in 2016 specifically focused on making it easier to manage identities across hybrid cloud environments in an increasingly fragmented market. The […]

There are a number of different ways to think about security and how it should be implemented. For Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager for Networking and Security at VMware, security should be an intrinsic capability. An intrinsic security capability is not one that is bolted on, but rather is deeply integrated into […]