Sean Michael Kerner

Craig McLuckie helped launch the open-source Kubernetes project while at Google and has been busy since November 2016 with his new company Heptio. Heptio is now moving forward, thanks to a $25 million Series B round of funding, bringing total funding to date for the startup to $33.5 million. “Kubernetes is doing really well, there […]

Linux Goes to Hollywood for Inaugural Open Source Summit The Linux Foundation held its inaugural Open Source Summit North America conference, the successor to the long running LinuxCon, from Sept. 11-14 in Los Angeles. One of the highlights of the event was an on-stage conversation with Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who made a plea to […]

LOS ANGELES — The Linux Foundation hosted its annual Open Source Summit North America event from Sept. 11 to 14 in Los Angeles, highlighting open-source efforts that it helps to lead. One question that Linux Foundation Executive Director, Jim Zemlin grapples with on a regular basis is why his organization continues to be relevant. In an […]

LOS ANGELES—In the ride sharing services market, Uber and Lyft are fierce competitors. In the world of open source, however, that is another story. At the Open Source Summit here on Sept. 13, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that it has accepted two new projects, Envoy from Lyft and Jaeger from Uber. Envoy is […]

Linux Foundation, Others Use Open Source Summit to Unveil New Projects The Linux Foundation and other organizations have made significant announcements at Open Source Summit North America, which runs Sept. 11-14 in Los Angeles. Open Source Summit is the successor to the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon conference. While the Linux Foundation initially only dealt with Linux, […]

Bluetooth is widely implemented in billions of devices, and nearly all of those devices need to be patched for a new set of Bluetooth vulnerabilities dubbed BlueBorne. The BlueBorne vulnerabilities were discovered by internet of things (IoT) security firm Armis, which first responsibly reported the flaws to the impacted vendors, including Google, Microsoft and the […]

Micro Focus announced a series of new security products on Sept. 12 at its first Protect conference, following the Sept. 1 close of the spin-merge deal with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software business unit. The Protect conference had been HPE’s flagship security event, and it is now set to serve the same purpose as part of […]

LOS ANGELES—Twenty-six years ago, Linus Torvalds started the Linux operating system, and at the Open Source Summit here on Sept. 11, Torvalds detailed his views on security, development and collaboration and why he’s still having fun working on Linux. Torvalds was asked in a keynote conversation with Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin about the […]

A financial analyst firm with ties to Equifax has reported a potential root cause of the massive breach at the credit reporting and monitoring. A Baird Equity Research report claims Equifax told the company that a vulnerability in the open-source Apache Struts framework was the root cause of the data breach. “Our understanding is data retained […]

Security Industry Responds to Massive Equifax Breach On Sept. 7, credit monitoring and reporting agency Equifax admitted that it was the victim of a massive data breach that revealed personally identifiable information on 143 million U.S. consumers. Based on an initial forensic investigation, Equifax has determined that the attackers had access to Equifax’s systems for […]

The impact of the breach at credit reporting and monitoring agency Equifax will likely be felt for months and years to come, as the full scope of the security incident is uncovered. Equifax publicly disclosed on Sept. 7 that attackers gained unauthorized access to it systems, exposing personally identifiable information on 143 million American consumers. […]

Equifax Inc. announced Sep. 7 that it was the victim of a data breach that potentially exposed personally identifiable information of about 143 million U.S. consumers. Though Equifax disclosed the breach on Sep. 7,  the company admitted that the breach was discovered more than a month ago, on July 29. According to Equifax, once the […]