Sean Michael Kerner

In October 2010, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system and CEO of Canonical, announced his grand plan to build a converged Linux desktop that would work on mobile devices, desktops and even TVs. He called the effort “Unity” and poured significant financial resources into it. Seven years later, the Unity dream is dead.  […]

There are many different security capabilities that are part of the Docker container platform, and there are a number of vendors providing container security offerings. At the DockerCon EU 17 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, eWEEK moderated a panel of leading vendors—Docker, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aqua Security, Twistlock and StackRox—to discuss the state of the market. […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Steve Singh has ambitious plans for Docker Inc. that are nothing less than transforming the world of legacy applications into a modern cloud-native approach. Singh was named CEO of Docker on May 2 and hosted his first DockerCon event here Oct. 16-19. The highlight of DockerCon EU was the surprise announcement that Docker is […]

Surprise Announcement Changes Container Landscape at DockerCon EU Docker Inc. shook up the entire container market at its DockerCon EU 17 conference with the announcement that Docker will embrace the rival open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. The DockerCon EU 17 event ran from Oct. 16-19 in Copenhagen, Denmark; it was the second DockerCon 17 event […]

Ubuntu Drops Unity for GNOME in Artful Aardvark Release Ever since the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal release in 2011, Ubuntu Linux has had its own desktop environment known as Unity. With the new Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Linux distribution set for general availability on Oct.19, Unity is no more, instead being replaced by the GNOME […]

Security vendor Tanium announced on Oct. 17 a new module to help track all the different assets an organization has both on and offline. The Tanium Asset module also provides integration with IT service management (ITSM) vendor ServiceNow. The new Tanium Asset module was announced at Tanium’s Converge conference, where CEO Orion Hindawi laid out […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—At the DockerCon EU conference here on Oct. 18 Docker Inc. outlined multiple successes it has had with its Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) program that was first announced at the DockerCon 17 conference in Austin, Texas, in April. The MTA program is a bundle of Docker products and services from partners that at launch […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—There’s been a lot of adoption of Kubernetes in the last few years, and as of Oct. 17 the open-source container orchestration technology has one more supporter. Docker Inc. announced at its DockerCon EU conference here that it is expanding its Docker platform to support Kubernetes. Docker had been directly competing against Kubernetes with […]

WordPress Plugins Expose Sites to Increased Risk, Report Finds WordPress is one of the most popular and widely deployed content management system technologies on the web, though many WordPress sites are at risk from vulnerable plugins. That’s one of the key findings from the SiteLock Website Security Insider Q2 2017 report, which is based on […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Container security startup StackRox announced that it is updating its namesake platform on Oct. 16, providing enhanced capabilities to help organizations secure container and microservices deployments. The new release coincides with the DockerCon EU conference, which runs here Oct. 16-19. As a company, StackRox, emerged from stealth in July, after three years of development, […]

The WPA2 protocol that is widely used to secure WiFi traffic is at risk from multiple vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as “KRACK Attacks,” which were publicly disclosed on Oct. 16. “Attackers can use this novel attack technique to read information that was previously assumed to be safely encrypted,” the vulnerability disclosure warns. “The attack works […]

On Oct.12, security researcher Randy Abrams first publicly posted that he had found a new Equifax risk that was exploiting users. The immediate concern was that Equifax had potentially been breached, yet again. As it turns out, the vulnerability was not the result of a new breach at Equifax, but rather the result of third party […]