Sean Michael Kerner

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced on Jan. 29 that it is expanding its project roster, with the addition of the Rook project. Rook is a container storage effort that works with the Kubernetes orchestration platform. Kubernetes was the founding project at the CNCF when the organization was created in July 2015 by the Linux […]

IBM Security released the results of a global study about authentication usage and attitudes on Jan. 29, that provides insight into how different demographics view digital identities. The study is based on a survey of 4,000 adults in the U.S, Europe and Asia-Pacific (APAC). Among the high-level findings in the report is that 70 percent […]

Peak DDoS Attack Volume Declines to 600G bps in 2017, Arbor Reports Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are measured in different ways, with volumetric attacks often being the most impactful. In 2017, the peak volumetric DDoS attack came in at 600G bps, compared with 800G bps in 2016, according to the NetScout Arbor 13th annual Worldwide […]

Linus Torvalds released the first new Linux kernel of 2018 on Jan. 28, after the longest development cycle for a new Linux kernel in seven years. During the release Linux Kernel release cycle, Torvalds typically issues a release candidate once a week, with most cycles including six to eight release candidates. There were nine release candidates […]

Palo Alto Networks is warning of a new cryptocurrency mining attack that is using URL shorteners as a way to infect victims’ systems. In a Jan. 24 report, the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 security research group revealed that up to 30 million systems may be impacted by the attack, which has been ongoing since […]

January 2018 has emerged to become a banner month for cyber-security acquisitions, with at least 10 acquisitions announced so far, four of which were announced between Jan. 22 and 25. Cisco continued the trend on Jan. 24 by announcing its intention to acquire privately-held server security startup Skyport. Financial terms of Cisco’s Skyport acquisition are […]

Fidelis Cybersecurity officially launched its new Deception Module on Jan. 25, to help organizations lure and detect attackers. The Deception Module is based on technology that Fidelis gained with its October 2017 acquisition of TopSpin Security. Fidelis has now integrated elements of TopSpin’s technology into the Elevate Platform, to provide new capabilities for organizations to […]

As organizations around the world increasingly rely on the cloud, the impact of a public cloud failure is something that insurance companies are now concerned about. A 67-page report released on Jan. 23 from Lloyd’s of London and AIR Worldwide provides some insight and estimates on the potential losses from a major cloud services outage—and […]

Global Fraud and Cyber-Security Incidents on the Rise, Kroll Finds Risk solution provider Kroll released the 10th annual edition of its Global Fraud and Risk Report on Jan. 22, revealing insights into the current state of cyber-security and fraud risks. The 47-page report is based on responses from 540 senior executives who work in different […]

Apple released its second set of security updates so far in 2018 on Jan. 23, bringing the Meltdown and Spectre patches to its’ older operating systems. Apple is also providing new security updates in the macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 desktop operating system and the iOS 11.2.5 mobile operating system that patch multiple critical flaws. Apple […]

Mozilla released its first web browser update for 2018 on Jan. 23 with the debut of Firefox 58. The new release includes features designed to accelerate performance as well as patches for 32 security vulnerabilities. Firefox 58 is the second major release in the Quantum series, which became generally available in November 2017 with Firefox 57. […]

A standard business decision made by many technology vendors is whether it is better to buy or to build new capabilities that will help to grow the business. In 2018 so far, an increasing number of vendors have decided to buy rather than build, when it comes to cyber-security technology. In the first three weeks […]