Sean Michael Kerner

Companies Must Step Up Mobile GDPR Compliance Efforts, Lookout Finds The European Union on May 25, 2018, will begin enforcing its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a stringent set of data protection and privacy rules with which organizations will need to comply. Those rules apply equally to all forms of digital data, whether that data […]

TORONTO—There is a mysterious cyber-army allegedly built by North Korea that has been attacking targets in South Korea and around the world for the last several years. That army is a little less mysterious to security researcher Ashley Shen, who gave a deep dive talk on the tactics and tools used by the North Korean […]

TORONTO—In the modern world, what has become increasingly obvious to Massachusetts Institute of Technology futurist David Shrier is that no one is safe and it’s time for a new model for security and data privacy. In a keynote address at the SecTor security conference here on Nov. 14, Shrier outlined efforts underway by the MIT […]

TORONTO—There are a lot of ways to hack a A security researcher explains how WPA2 Enterprise wireless security can be bypassed and why the EAP-TLS wireless authentication protocol should be more widely deployed to help mitigate risks. WiFi network, and Gabriel Ryan, security engineer at security firm Gotham Digital Science, detailed many of them in […]

Firefox 57 Takes Quantum Leap Forward in Speed and Looks Mozilla is aiming to regain both mind and market share with its next major release of its open-source Firefox web browser, which is scheduled to become generally available on Nov. 14. Firefox 57 is known as Quantum and includes a new user interface, improved performance […]

The IBM X-Force research team has discovered a new banking Trojan, dubbed “IcedID,” that is taking aim at global financial institutions. The IcedID Trojan relies on the Emotet malware dropper to exploit a victim’s system. IcedID then provides the Trojan payload, redirecting victims to an attacker site that is a replica of a real banking […]

Security startup NeuVector announced version 1.3 of its container security platform on Nov. 13, providing advanced capabilities to help organizations detect threats that can be hidden in container workloads. NeuVector’s platform provides a container firewall that can filter application layer traffic to help identify anomalous behavior and traffic. Visibility into tunneled traffic and advanced privilege […]

Red Hat is involved in a number of areas of IT that use its Linux operating system as a base. Providing direction on many of those areas of IT is Red Hat Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Chris Wright. Wright has been with Red Hat since 2005 and was officially promoted to the role of […]

In an effort to improve cloud security, Bracket Computing announced on Nov. 9 a new Server Guard functionality to provide immutable server protection for cloud deployments. Server Guard is built into Bracket Computing’s Metavisor isolation technology that separates application workloads from the cloud guest operating system. With Server Guard, Bracket Computing is able to detect […]

Organizations Favoring Multicloud Deployments, OpenStack Survey Finds Multicloud deployments are increasingly becoming the norm, according to the November 2017 OpenStack User Survey. The 19-page report was released at the OpenStack Summit in Sydney, Australia, which ran Nov. 6-8, bringing together operators and developers to discuss and learn about the latest cloud technology developments. One of […]

Amazon announced a series of new security features for its cloud platform on Nov. 8, providing users with enhanced capabilities to help protect S3 storage buckets and virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint connections. The company is launching the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) security features ahead of its re:invent conference, which runs from Nov. 27 […]

Security vendor CrowdStrike announced its new Falcon Spotlight tool on Nov. 8, providing organizations with the ability to accurately manage security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability management has become a particularly hot area of cyber-security in recent months, with multiple large incidents including both the WannaCry ransomware attack and the Equifax data breach being attributed in part to […]