Sean Michael Kerner

The use of blockchain-based crypto-currencies has grown in recent years and with it has come a need to improve security. To that end, Blockchain infrastructure solutions startup Ledger announced on Oct.4 that it is partnering with Hardware Security Module (HSM) vendor Gemalto to help bolster the security of crypto-currency transactions. The partnership integrates Gemalto’s SafeNet […]

5 Deadly Sins of Privileged Access Management Put Firms in Harm’s Way Data breaches continue to be a regular occurrence around the world as attackers exploit common weaknesses in enterprise infrastructure. A new report from security vendor BeyondTrust has identified what the company refers to as the “5 Deadly Sins” of privileged access management, which […]

A team of Google security researchers has discovered a set of security vulnerabilities in the Dnsmasq software package that could have potentially enabled a remote code execution by an attacker.  Dnsmasq is a widely used open-source network utilities program that provides local DNS (Domain Name Service) services as well as DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) […]

On Oct. 3, Yahoo now part of Verizon’s Oath business unit, publicly disclosed that all of its users were impacted by a data breach in August 2013. Oath estimates that information on three billion users was stolen by attackers in the breach. The three billion figure for the data beach is a dramatic increase from […]

The Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) version 9 is now generally available bringing with it a number of new features to help make Java more modular and efficient. At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Oct. 2, Mark Reinhold Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle outlined some of the new Java 9 […]

Credit reporting agency Equifax announced on Oct. 2 that the forensic investigation of its data breach has revealed that an additional 2.5 million Americans were impacted. On Sept. 7, Equifax first publicly announced that it was the victim of a data breach that exposed personally identifiable information on 143 million Americans. However, a forensic investigation completed […]

Bob Quillin sold his company StackEngine to Oracle in December 2015 and has been at Oracle ever since, helping to mature Oracle’s container strategy. StackEngine was a container management startup building technology to enable container operations for enterprise-grade requirements. “What we had been focusing on after getting acquired was building out a container cloud service […]

Grocery retailer Whole Foods Market announced on Sept. 28 that it was investigating a possible data breach, involving unauthorized access to payment card information. The potential breach is limited to table-service restaurants and taprooms within a limited number of Whole Foods stores and does not impact the company’s primary checkout system used by in-store shoppers.  “While […]

9 Cyber-Security Vendors That Raised Funding in September 2017 Nine months into 2017, and the cyber-security industry is showing no signs of slowing down as investors continued to pour money into startups in September. The funding highlights the different areas of security that are growing, including cyber-risk, internet of things (IoT) and containers. Among the […]

Version 1.8 of the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration and management platform is now available, providing features that improve both scalability and security. Kubernetes 1.8, released on Sept. 28, is the third major milestone release for Kubernetes in 2017 and follows the 1.7 update that debuted in June. The Kubernetes project was originally started by Google […]

Seven years ago, Cloudflare debuted with the goal of improving security and web content delivery. As part of the company’s seventh birthday, Cloudflare announced a series of new product and service innovations, including unmetered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, geographic SSL/TLS key storage and the Warp origin masking service. Over the course of the last seven […]

Accelerite is updating and expanding its cloud infrastructure offering with the new Rovius cloud platform, which was officially announced on Sept. 26.  Rovius enables organizations to combine on-premises private cloud deployments with public cloud capacity from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The Rovius Cloud builds on the open-source Apache CloudStack project and […]