Sean Michael Kerner

Researchers from F5 Labs reported on March 14 that they have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that is abusing unpatched Elasticsearch servers. Unauthorized cryptocurrency mining, commonly referred to as “cryptojacking,” is an attack trend that started in 2017 and hit a peak in mid-2018. With a cryptojacking attack, a hacker makes use of a system […]

Facebook users around the world had a singular question for much of March 13: Is Facebook down? As it turns out, the global social media giant and its related Instagram and WhatsApp services were in fact unavailable and down for much of the day. Some service was restored by March 14, though full global availability […]

Tetrate officially launched on March 13, announcing its enterprise service mesh platform that is built on top of the open-source Istio and Envoy projects. The concept of a service mesh has been an emerging trend over the past year as an approach that enables networking connectivity and security policies to be managed and deployed in […]

The Linux Foundation has long positioned itself to be the home for big open-source collaborative efforts. On March 12, the list of efforts hosted by the Linux Foundation is set to grow with the launch of the new Continuous Delivery Foundation and the integration of the Open JS Foundation. The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) brings […]

F5 Networks announced on March 11 that it is acquiring privately held Nginx in a deal valued at $670 million. Nginx is the lead commercial sponsor of the open-source Nginx web server and application delivery platform, which is one of the most widely used technologies on the internet today, powering 22 percent of all active […]

Attackers are constantly changing tactics as they aim to gain an upper hand on defenders and un-suspecting victims. While some attack techniques like phishing and SQL injection are common year after year, other newer techniques have emerged in the past year that attackers are increasingly exploiting, putting enterprises at risk from threats that perhaps they […]

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are among the most critical enterprise applications that an organization operates and as such, they represent a lucrative target for attackers. In a session at the RSA Conference last week, Onapsis CTO JP Perez-Etchegoyen outlined what’s behind ERP breaches and provided additional insight in an interview with eWEEK. Perez-Etchegoyen said […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Few if any, organizations on the planet operate at the size and scale of Walmart. Scale isn’t just about normal retail operations either; it also comes in play with how the organization handles its own security resiliency testing. In a session at the RSA Conference here, Jason O’Dell, director of incident response […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The emerging of idea of DevSecOps is all about integrating security as part of the developer and operations workflow, but how is that actually achieved within a large organization? In a session at the RSA Conference here this week, Steve Martino, senior vice president and chief information security officer at Cisco, explained how his […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Some people see humans as the weak link in cyber-security; others see humans as the strongest link. Mary O’Brien, general manager of IBM Security, however, sees humans as both, sitting at the core of what is needed to enable improved cyber-security outcomes. O’Brien is delivering a keynote at RSA Conference 2019 here today along […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, came to the RSA Conference here with a message: He wants to work with the private sector, and he wants more people to come and work for the NSA to help it fulfill its mission. Nakasone was a keynote […]

SAN FRANCISCO—There is no shortage of challenges that organizations going through digital transformation face. At analyst firm IDC’s annual breakfast meeting at the RSA Conference here, analysts outlined the big challenges they see firms facing in 2019. IDC analysts also detailed why cloud and hyperconnectivity could well be contributing to more complexity and risk. “We estimate […]