Sean Michael Kerner

Private equity firm Francisco Partners announced on Oct. 31 that it has acquired the SSL/TLS Certificate Authority (CA) business from security firm Comodo Group. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. “This is a carve-out of the Comodo SSL business, which is now going to be a separate legal and operational entity,” […]

Multiple organizations over the course of 2017 have attempted to quantify the impact of ransomware with varying results. One of the best sources on measuring the financial impact of ransomware so far has become looking at the financial earnings of companies that have been victims of ransomware. The latest public company to reveal the impact […]

The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) added two new members to its roster on Oct. 25, expanding the number of vendors participating in the cyber-security threat intelligence sharing group. Sophos and Saint Security are now joining the CTA and will work alongside existing members Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco, Fortinet, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, Symantec, IntSights, Rapid7, […]

Skybox Security announced a new $150 million round of investment on Oct. 25, in a bid to help the company develop its products and support its global go-to-market efforts. The new investment comes from the CVC Capital Partners’ Growth Fund and private equity firm Pantheon. Total funding to date for Skybox since the company’s creation […]

Linux Foundation Reports Quickening Pace For Linux Development Linux continues to advance year-after-year with new kernel releases debuting at a steady rate, adding new lines of code and functionality. On Oct. 25, the Linux Foundation released its 2017 Linux Kernel Development Report detailing precisely how much the Linux kernel has advanced so far in 2017. […]

A large amount of the world’s trade is delivered by way of the international maritime shipping industry, which makes ships and their communications systems, potentially lucrative targets for attackers.  Security firm IOActive announced on Oct. 26 that it found a pair of critical security flaws in an Inmarsat maritime vessel communication platform, that could have […]

Cyber-security vendor McAfee was officially spun-out of Intel Security in April 2017 and has been steadily evolving its technologies ever since. In a video interview with eWEEK, McAfee Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer Steve Grobman provides insight into what has changed at the company and where the challenges remain in the cyber-security industry. “When […]

Symantec announced an updated portfolio of endpoint security products on Oct. 25 that it is positioning as a next generation security platform for the cloud generation. Among the new and updated products in the Endpoint Security for the Cloud Generation portfolio is the Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) platform 14.1 release which now benefits from the […]

A new ransomware attack known as “Bad Rabbit” began to spread on Oct. 24, with Ukraine and Russia bearing the brunt of the initial impact. Both ESET and security firm Kaspersky Lab have noted that there are also limited reports of Bad Rabbit impacting systems in Turkey, Bulgaria and Germany. Among the early victims of […]

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation on Oct. 24 announced that it is expanding its project roster with the addition of the Notary container trust project and The Update Framework security effort. The Notary project was originally developed by Docker and provides a content signing framework to help verify the cryptographic integrity of a container application […]

State of Software Security Shows Little Change From 2016 When building and deploying applications, developers continue to make same security errors year after year, according to a new study from Veracode. The 44-page Veracode 2017 State of Software Security (SOSS) report was released on Oct. 18, providing insight from 400,000 software assessments conducted by Veracode […]

US-CERT issued a technical alert on Oct.21 warning of advanced persistent threat activity targeting energy and other critical infrastructure sectors across the United States.  The technical alert was compiled with information provided from both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI. According to the analysis, energy, nuclear, water, aviation and critical manufacturing sectors […]