Sean Michael Kerner

New Malware Sample Detection Hits Record High, McAfee Reports More new malware samples were detected in the third quarter of 2017 than in any previous quarter, according to security firm McAfee. The December 2017 McAfee Labs Threat Report revealed that 57.6 million new malware samples were detected in the third quarter, up 10 percent from […]

Twistlock released version 2.3 of its container security platform on Jan. 3, adding new features to help protect container workloads. Among the new features in Twistlock 2.3 in an improved Cloud Native App Firewall (CNAF), per-layer vulnerability analysis functionality, application aware system call defense and new serverless security capabilities. “Lots of people have vulnerability analysis for […]

The U.S. government is steadily increasing its adoption of the DMARC email security protocol, according to new research from security firm Agari, published on Jan. 2. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, or DMARC, is a protocol that helps protect the integrity and authenticity of email. DMARC makes use of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) as […]

There were no shortage of security vulnerabilities disclosed and companies breached in 2017. For venture capitalists, all that security news provided further incentive to invest in cyber-security startups, as the opportunity and demand for new technologies continued to grow. Over the course of the year, eWEEK has chronicled the flow of new money into cyber-security […]

At the core of the Satori Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that was disrupted by internet service providers (ISPs) earlier this month, is a vulnerability in Huawei routers. Researchers at NewSky Security reported Dec. 28. that code that exploits the Huawei vulnerability has now been publicly posted on the internet. The Huawei router vulnerability is […]

In 2017, there was one area of the cloud landscape that received more attention than nearly all others—Kubernetes.  Kubernetes’ roots go back to 2014, when Google publicly released the open source code for the project. But it was 2017 when Kubernetes’ popularity took off, with nearly every major IT vendor now backing the platform, even […]

Time and again over the course of 2017, security researchers have looked for and found security flaws in internet of things connected devices. The latest such research was reported on Dec. 27 by Trend Micro, which found multiple flaws in connected home speakers from Sonos and Bose. Details on the flaws are discussed by Trend […]

As the value of cryptocurrency has grown over the course of 2017, so too have the methods used by hackers to get unauthorized mining code running on end-user systems. Security firm Trend Micro last week disclosed the latest method, issuing a warning about a campaign that abuses Facebook Messenger to help deliver and control a […]

Security Vendors Continue to Attract Investors to Fund Their Efforts This year ended strong for cyber-security vendors looking to raise new funding. Like recent months, December 2017 saw a number of cyber-security vendors raise funding, thanks to continued demand for new technologies that mitigate risks. Funding was spread across several sectors of the cyber-security market, […]

Eight years ago, the Obama administration chose an open-source content management system to power the whitehouse.gov website. In 2017, the Trump administration also chose an open-source CMS, albeit a different one from what has been in use since 2009. In October 2009, the open-source Drupal CMS was chosen to power the whitehouse.gov website, a move […]

18 Cyber-Security Trends Organizations Need to Brace for in 2018 Enterprises, end users and governments faced no shortage of security challenges in 2017. Some of those same challenges will continue into 2018, and there will be new problems to solve as well. Ransomware has been a concern for several years and will likely continue to […]

Ever since U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden first revealed the broad scope of U.S. surveillance activities in 2013, there has been global concern about personal privacy in the digital age. On Dec. 22, a new mobile app backed by Snowden, called Haven, debuted in a bid to protect personal privacy with the use […]