Sean Michael Kerner

Unwanted email, commonly referred to as spam, has been a longstanding internet nuisance and security issue. New research released today by IBM provides insight into the work habits of the largest spam operators, and as it turns out, the typical spam workweek is closely aligned with regular business hours. Using six months of data, from […]

Ransomware has been a growing internet security attack tactic over the course of the past year, with multiple groups attempting to quantify the financial impact.  In a ransomware attack, an attacker is able to install malware that encrypts data on a victim’s system. The victimized system will then have a message on it, instructing the […]

Facebook awarded the fourth Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Conference in Vancouver, Canada on Aug. 17, providing the winning research team with a $100,000 award. The Internet Defense Prize got started in 2014 as an effort to help encourage and reward security researchers for investigating and developing new methods that can help improve […]

Respond Software emerged from stealth on Aug. 16 to introduce general availability of its Respond Analyst platform along with $12 million in Series A funding. The promise of the Respond Analyst platform is to help solve the IT security staffing challenge with technology that can identify and escalate potential security threat alerts. Respond Software is […]

Study Shows Cyber-Security Pros Confident They Can Find Threats Crowd Research Partners released the 2017 Threat Monitoring, Detection and Response Report on Aug. 15, providing insight into the latest trends and professional opinions in the cyber-security landscape. The report includes responses from 410 IT security professionals and was produced in partnership with AlienVault, Bitglass, BluVector, […]

Container management vendor CoreOS today released the latest update of its Tectonic platform, bringing the open-source Kubernetes based system to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The Tectonic 1.7 release is based on the upstream Kubernetes 1.7 project update that debuted at the end of June. Kubernetes started off as a Google open-source effort and became the cornerstone […]

Docker Inc. today announced the general availability of the latest iteration of its commercially supported flagship platform with Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 17.06. The Docker EE 17.06 release is the first since March, when Docker EE debuted. Docker EE is a rebranding and repositioning of Docker’s commercial platform, providing what had previously been known as […]

The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is updating its guidance for password complexity, advising end users to choose longer pass phrases, rather than simply a mix of upper and lower case characters. According to a survey from security awareness vendor KnowBe4, many users are open to the idea of using a pass […]

AWS Summit Focuses on Latest Cloud Innovations, Major Customer Wins Amazon Web Services (AWS) came to New York City on Aug. 14 for the east coast edition of its AWS Summit to progress in building its cloud infrastructure and announcing multiple new capabilities. Among the big customers that took the stage at event were streaming […]

Security researcher Marcus Hutchins, also known by his online alias ‘MalwareTech’ has entered a plea of not guilty against charges he created the Kronos banking trojan. Hutchins entered the plea in a Milwaukee, Wis. federal courthouse on Aug 14. Hutchins was first arrested on Aug. 2 as he attempted to return to his home in […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that it is making its CloudTrail cloud audit and and log service freely available to users. While having CloudTrail logs freely available helps to improve security, Lacework Co-Founder and CTO, Vikram Kapoor’s view is that organizations need additional threat and anomaly analysis capabilities to supplement CloudTrail which is why […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a series of new services today at the company’s AWS Summit in New York City, including migration, Glue data transformation, Macie machine learning security and CloudHSM Hardware Security Module offerings. While many organizations have chosen to build new applications on AWS, Adrian Crockfort, vice president of cloud architecture at AWS […]