Sean Michael Kerner

Among the most common type of attacks that hit the Akamai platform on a daily basis is one known as credential stuffing. In such an attack, automated bots aim to reuse passwords and credentials harvested from other sites and data breaches to exploit new systems. At the Akamai Edge conference on Oct. 11, Akamai announced […]

Understanding where software comes from and how it was built is a cornerstone of good security hygiene. In an effort to further improve security for the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration platform, multiple vendors have come together to launch the Grafeas project. Grafeas which means “scribe” in Greek, is an open-source project that is intended to […]

Container vendor Docker Inc. is in the process of raising a $75 million round of funding, as the company aims to grow its business and compete effectively against a growing array of container and microservices vendors. On Oct. 6, Docker Inc. filed a disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing a few details […]

After months of allegations and concerns about security firm Kaspersky Lab and its involvement in Russian government hacking efforts, there is a dramatic new revelation in the ongoing drama. According to a pair of reports published on Oct. 10 in the New York Times  and Washington Post, Israeli intelligence operatives actually hacked Kaspersky Lab possibly […]

Security vendor UpGuard announced on Oct. 10 that global consulting firm Accenture had left at least four cloud-based storage servers publicly available, which it claims could have left Accenture customers at risk. Accenture is downplaying the impact of the cloud data exposure, which it has since fixed. “There was no risk to any of our […]

7 Security Risks User and Entity Behavior Analytics Helps Detect User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) technology is a relatively new entrant into the cyber-security tools arena that aims to provide capabilities that classic network security tools such as firewall and intrusion preventions systems (IPS) cannot. With UEBA, rather than just looking at network traffic […]

At 6:17 ET PM on Oct.6, Forrester Research publicly admitted that it was the victim of a cyber-attack. According to the firm, the attack had limited impact, with no evidence that confidential client data had been stolen. According to Forrester Research’s preliminary investigation, attackers were able to gain access to Forrester.com content that was intended […]

DevOps vendor Chef announced the launch of its Habitat Builder software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering on Oct. 9, providing new automation capabilities for developers who work with containerized cloud-native applications. Habitat Builder is an extension of Chef’s open-source Habitat automation technology that debuted in June 2016. With the original Habitat project, Chef provided developers with tools to […]

Jeffrey Tricoli, first joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1998 and has first hand experience seeing how cyber-crime and hackers have evolved their techniques. Tricoli is currently is the Section Chief for the Cyber-Division at the FBI and delivered a keynote on how to profile modern cyber-adversaries at the infosecurity North America conference […]

Apple released an update for macOS High Sierra on Oct. 5, patching two critical vulnerabilities in the new operating system. The security update for macOS come less than two weeks after Apple released High Sierra on Sept. 25. The initial High Sierra release patched 43 vulnerabilities, though it apparently missed the two that have now […]

Java Moving Forward With Faster Pace Release Schedule, Modular System Among the key messages and themes that emerged at the JavaOne 2017 conference, held in San Francisco Oct. 1 to 5, is that the Java community is moving ahead faster now than at any other point in the popular programming language’s history. The new Java […]

Some breaches have more fallout than others. For two days this week, former Equifax CEO Richard Smith was on Capitol Hill answering questions from lawmakers and taking heated criticism of his handling of a breach that exposed personally identifiable information on 145.5 million Americans. Throughout the ordeal, Smith mostly sat calmly, hands clasped on the […]