Sean Michael Kerner

Security vendor Cylance today announced Cylance Protect Home Edition, providing some of the same capabilities found in Cylance’s enterprise-grade platform to home users. Many next generation security vendors have stayed away from the consumer side of security as it can be a more difficult business to manage. Christopher Bray, Senior Vice-President and General Manager of […]

Symantec announced on Aug. 2 that it is selling its website security and public key infrastructure (PKI) technologies to DigiCert for $950 million in cash and a 30 percent stake in DigiCert’s common stock equity. The deal is set to close in the third quarter of fiscal year 2018. Symantec’s website security and PKI business […]

The U.S. Government is getting serious about Internet of Things (IoT) security. On August 1, a bi-partisan group of U.S. Senators including Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO), co-chairs of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, along with Senator Ron Wyden (D-WA) and Steve Daines (R-MT), introduced the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017. The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act […]

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.4 on Aug. 1, providing users with improved performance and security features.  The new release had been in beta since May 23 and there were no major changes made or flaws discovered during the beta process, according to Steve Almy, principal product manager […]

Ransomware isn’t just a hot topic in the media, it’s a real and growing threat, according to a team of Google-led researchers. Google publicly presented its findings in a session titled “Tracking Ransomware End to End” at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas on July 26. Ransomware has been a hot topic […]

While some hackers were busy on one level of the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas, hacking voting machines, others were detailing a set of 26 vulnerabilities dubbed ‘CableTap’ flaws that impact wireless gateway and set-top boxes provided by internet service providers (ISPs)and cable television operators. The impacted vendors and ISPs include Comcast, Time Warner, […]

Black Hat, DefCon Expose Flaws in Voting Machines to Smart Guns The annual week of security conferences—the back-to-back Black Hat USA and DefCon events—colloquially referred to as “hacker summer camp” ran from July 22-30. The Black Hat show that was held at Mandalay Bay celebrated its 20th anniversary and was headlined by a keynote address […]

LAS VEGAS—In a small room at the Caesar’s Palace hotel conference center, a series of voting machines were setup as part of the Voting Village at the DefCon 25 hacking conference here, giving attendees the opportunity to find ways to exploit weaknesses in their designs . Security researcher Carsten Schurmann was able to get remote access […]

LAS VEGAS—As Docker container use grows, so too is scrutiny into container security. In a session on July 27 at the Black Hat USA conference here, researchers from Aqua Security detailed vulnerabilities they found in Docker that could have put developers at risk. The vulnerabilities discovered by Aqua Security have already been responsibly disclosed to […]

LAS VEGAS—Apple’s iCloud Keychain is a critical piece of technology that provides users of Apple’s devices with password management capabilities, making it a lucrative target for hackers. Until March of this year, iCloud Keychain and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on it were at risk due to a vulnerability in how the […]

Vendors Use Black Hat Event to Launch New Products, Announce Advances This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Black Hat USA conference. In the early years of the Las Vegas event, security researcher presentations were the focus, as there were few vendor booths. Over the last few years though, the business hall, where exhibitors […]

LAS VEGAS — For the last few months the two primary mobile operating system vendors Google Android and Apple IOS have scrambled to patch a flaw that could have left all their users at risk from a critical remote exploit vulnerability, known as Broadpwn.  Today in a standing room only session at the Black Hat […]