Sean Michael Kerner

Oracle is expanding its container efforts with the official public debut of three new open-source utilities designed to help improve application container security and performance. The tools include the Smith secure container builder, Crashcart container debugging tool and the Railcar container runtime. The new Oracle container tools were publicly revealed by Oracle cloud development architect […]

IBM’s Watson computing platform is helping to enable a new era of what IBM calls “Cognitive Computing” with its powerful processing and analytics capabilities. Looking beyond the physical hardware behind IBM Watson, it is Docker containers that are helping IBM to deliver Watson services. In a video interview with eWEEK, Jason McGee, VP and CTO for […]

Cyber-Security Startups Score Big Rounds of Venture Funding in June June 2017 was a milestone month for cyber-security venture funding with multiple organizations raising $100 million or more in venture capital. Investors focused on areas of cyber-security that are growing the most, including the cloud, artificial intelligence, micro-segmentation, and managed services. Among the biggest funding […]

Tech support scams are a global problem with fraudsters tricking unsuspecting users into believing that their systems are somehow infected with malware that needs to be removed. British authorities and the City of London Police department working with Microsoft have made an attempt to reduce tech support fraud, making four arrests of alleged perpetrators. The […]

IT Security Professionals See Petya Ransomware as Multifaceted Threat On June 27, a new variant of malware based on the long-known Petya ransomware attacked organizations in the Ukraine and around the world. The attack makes use of the same EternalBlue exploit first patched by Microsoft in March that allegedly is a hacking tool created by […]

The open-source Kubernetes 1.7 release is now available, providing users with new features to help manage and secure container infrastructure. Kubernetes 1.7 is the second major release of the open-source container orchestration platform so far in 2017 and follows the Kubernetes 1.6 release that debuted in March at the CloudNative Con/Kubecon event in Berlin, Germany. […]

Platform9 announced a new $22 million Series C round of funding on June 28, bringing total funding to date for the managed cloud services vendor up to $36.5 million. The new round was led by Canvas Ventures and included the participation of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Redpoint Ventures and Menlo Ventures.  Platform9 first emerged from stealth […]

Asaf Cidon sold his security startup Sookasa to Barracuda in March 2016 and has been busy helping to build new technologies for Barracuda ever since. One of those new technologies was announced on June 28, with the debut of the Barracuda Sentinel service designed to help detect spear phishing and improve email security. “Our team […]

McAfee Report Finds New Malware Evolving to Evade ‘Sandboxes’ The anti-malware business has long been a ‘cat-and-mouse’ game with hackers increasingly trying to outmaneuver security vendor technologies. According to the McAfee Labs June 2017 Threat report, the most common evasion technique now used by malware to avoid being detected is anti-sandboxing. Sandboxes are commonly used […]

The impact of the global ransomware cyberattack, identified by some security vendors as Petya and others as NotPetya or GoldenEye, is still being calculated, a day after the attack began. The Petya ransomware attack makes use of the EternalBlue exploit that Microsoft patched in March to initially gain access to a system and then is able […]

Bug bounty platform vendor HackerOne published its 28-page 2017 Hacker-Powered Security report today, providing insight into the current state of the bug bounty marketplace. Among the top-line findings in the report is that the average bug bounty paid for a critical vulnerability in now $1,923. Through the bug bounty platform, vendors benefit from HackerOne’s community […]

Security startup Claroty announced an expansion of its Industrial Control System (ICS) Continuous Threat Detection platform on June 26, providing operators with new secure remote access capabilities. The new ICS security capabilities debut as attacks against power grids and other infrastructure emerge, including the recent disclosure about the Industroyer attack that shut down the Ukraine power grid […]