Sean Michael Kerner

New Tails 3.0 Privacy-Focused Linux Based on Debian 9 Stretch A major new release of Tails Linux debuted on June 13, providing users with updated features and improved security. TAILS is an acronym for The Amnesic Incognito Live System, which is a privacy focused Linux distribution loaded with tools to help keep users stay somewhat […]

Security firm FireEye released a new report today describing the activities and techniques used by a hacker group it identifies as FIN10 that has been exploiting mining companies and casinos.  According to FireEye’s analysis, FIN10 has been active from at least 2013 through 2016 and does not rely on zero-day vulnerabilities, but rather publicly available software […]

Three and a half years ago, Deepak Singh was a principal product product manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and customers were asking him about enabling capabilities to run Docker containers. While it was possible to run Docker on EC2 just like any other type of software, it became clear to […]

Content categorization vendor zvelo is getting into the internet of things (IoT) space with the debut of the company’s new IoT Security platform. Zvelo’s business model is to sell technology and services to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that in turn, embed the capabilities in devices and unified threat device hardware. As opposed to many security […]

Mozilla released a major update to its open-source browser on June 13 with the debut of Firefox 54 for Windows, macOS and Linux, providing users with improved performance and patches for 24 security issues. Firefox 54 integrates the latest development from Mozilla’s effort to improve web page content processing—a multiprocess technology it calls Electrolysis (E10S). […]

Microsoft is out with its monthly Patch Tuesday update today, providing security fixes for 96 security issues and is also taking the unusual step of providing some fixes for the older, officially unsupported Windows XP operating system. Out of the 96 bugs patches by Microsoft, 18 are rated as having critical severity with two issues […]

Internet Traffic and Users to Skyrocket by 2021, Cisco Forecasts The internet globally will continue to gain users and consume more bandwith in the coming years, according to the latest edition of Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global IP Traffic Forecast, covering the five-year period from 2016 to 2021.The most impressive number in the VNI […]

IBM today announced the addition of new services to its identity management portfolio with an expansion of the IBM Cloud Identity platform to include the new Cloud Identity Connect software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. IBM’s Cloud Identity portfolio also includes the Cloud Identity Service and MaaS360 Universal Endpoint Manager (UEM) offerings. The Cloud Identity technologies have different […]

In December 2016, the city of Kiev in the Ukraine was hit by a massive power outage that left citizens literally out in the cold. New research released today suggests that the power outage was anything but an accident and instead was a directed cyber-attack. Security researchers at ESET are claiming credit for discovering the […]

WordPress 4.8 Delivers Features Aimed at Improving User Experience Among the most widely deployed open-source technologies, the WordPress content management system (CMS) powers more than 74 million websites, and on June 8, version 4.8—a milestone update—was released with new features for both users and developers. WordPress 4.8 is code-named “Evans” in honor of jazz pianist […]

Hackers have long been using fake emails in phishing attacks against organizations in an attempt to exploit users. Now security firm Illusive Networks is looking to turn the tables on attackers with an email data deception feature that plants fake information to trick hackers. Illusive Networks’ core technology is its deception platform, which provides different […]

Container vendor Docker is aiming to improve Linux kernel security by incubating several nascent Linux security projects within its LinuxKit community. LinuxKit is an open-source effort that Docker officially announced on April 18 as a toolkit to build container-optimized Linux distributions. “Security is critically important for Docker, and LinuxKit represents an opportunity for us to […]