Sean Michael Kerner

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued its 28-page 2016 Internet Crime Report, detailing $1.33 billion in victim losses from a total of 298,728 complaints during the year. Multiple forms of online attacks, including business email compromise (BEC), tech support fraud and various payment scams, were reported to the IC3 in 2016. Surprisingly […]

Debian 9 ‘Stretch’ Offers Improved Security on Multiple Architectures In the world of Linux operating system distributions, Debian has been one of the most popular choices for more than two decades. On June 17, the Debian 9 distribution, code-named “Stretch,” debuted. The new distribution marks the first major milestone release of Debian since the Debian […]

Tempered Networks is expanding the focus of its Identity-Defined Networking (IDN) platform to help organizations be compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requirements. The PCI DSS compliance capabilities are part of Tempered Networks’ latest platform milestone, which also introduced the new HIPrelay identity-based router technology.  Tempered Networks was originally known as Asguard Networks […]

The WannaCry ransomware worm is still having an impact on organizations around the world, more than a month after it first emerged. The latest victims appear to be Honda Motor Co. in Japan and traffic cameras in Australia. WannaCry first struck organizations on May 12 by abusing the MS17-010 vulnerability that Microsoft had patched in […]

On June 1, security firm Check Point reported that a browser hijacking operation called “Fireball” had already claimed 250 million victims. According to a Microsoft analysis published June 22, Check Point’s estimate of the number of victims was “overblown” and the attack is not nearly as widespread as initially reported. The Fireball attack is a […]

In the modern software development landscape, application programming interfaces are widely used to provide data, content and other services. However, API security has been an often overlooked area, which is why Bernard Harguindeguy and his partners got the idea to start Elastic Beam. Elastic Beam is officially emerging from stealth today in a bid to […]

PoS Attacks on the Rise and Spam Rebounds, Trustwave Reports Security services firm Trustwave released its 92-page 2017 Global Security Report on June 20, providing insight into security trends observed by the firm from data breach investigations conducted around the world. One trend was a growing volume of point-of-sale (PoS) system breaches, which grew to […]

There is a new Firefox browser available in the Google Play mobile app store today, with Mozilla debuting Firefox Focus for Android. Firefox Focus is a different browser than Firefox for Android or Desktop, in that its core mission is to “focus” on providing user privacy, with tracking prevention and ad blocking by default. Firefox Focus […]

For years, the Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach Study has reported a steady increase in breach costs, but surprisingly that’s not the case in the 2017 edition of the report, sponsored by IBM. “Overall when you look at the report, the good news is that the overall cost of a data breach is down,” […]

Ping Identity kicked off the Cloud Identity Summit today with new tools to help embed multifactor authentication in applications as well as with news of an expanded Identity Defined Security Alliance. IDSA is a multivendor effort to help organizations deploy and manage identity technologies. Ping initially started the alliance as a way to identify best-in-class identity […]

Fraud prevention technology is commonly used in financial services, though there are wider use cases as there are a lot of different types of fraud. In 2016, online IT career site Dice had a problem dealing with a large volume of fraudulent resumes and spam profiles. In fact, as much as 30 percent of account […]

The open-source Let’s Encrypt project has been an innovating force on the security landscape over the last several years, providing millions of free SSL/TLS certificates to help secure web traffic. Aside from the disruptive model of providing certificates for free, Let’s Encrypt has also helped to pioneer new technology to help manage and deliver certificates […]