Sean Michael Kerner

The Changing Face of the OpenStack Vendor Market As with any new area of technology, the OpenStack cloud market has undergone transition with some startup vendors getting acquired and others simply ceasing operations. Since 2010, when NASA and Rackspace first got together to form OpenStack, at least seven vendors have faded from the landscape. Perhaps […]

Business email compromise (BEC) scams have resulted in $5.3 billion in financial losses since October 2013, according to new data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), based on global reports. BEC fraud, also known as email account compromise (EAC), is a type of scam where an attacker uses a […]

Red Hat Summit 2017 Focuses on Future of Containers Red Hat has evolved over the years beyond its core Linux roots and is now also focusing on the cloud and containers. At the Red Hat Summit that ran May 2-4 in Boston, Red Hat executives emphasized time and again that Linux and the open-source model […]

BMC is expanding its security operations (SecOps) capabilities with a new service announced on May 3. The new BMC SecOps Response Service extends the BladeLogic Threat Director technology that BMC announced in April 2016 to the cloud. The SecOps Response Service is built on the same codebase as BladeLogic Threat Director, which is a technology […]

CA Technologies announced its Risk Analytics Network service on May 4, providing new capabilities to help reduce online fraud. The CA Risk Analytics Network makes use of machine learning and neural network model techniques to rapidly identify potentially risky devices and transactions. “With EMV chip cards what we have started to see is that fraud […]

Phishing attacks are nothing new, but the massive attack on Google Docs that hit the internet on May 3 takes phishing to a new level.  Users around the world began reporting suspicious emails midafternoon with a Google Docs link, appearing to come from known contacts. The reports surfaced on social media sites including Twitter and […]

Cyber-Attackers Continue Assault on Financial Services, IBM Reports Financial services is typically one of the most targeted industry verticals by cyber-attackers, and 2016 was no exception. In fact, according to a new report by IBM Security, the financial services industry was attacked more than any other industry last year. On a positive note, however,  the […]

Red Hat announced new IT automation capabilities on May 3, including CloudForms 4.5 and an update for Red Hat Insights. The new releases debuted on the second day of the Red Hat Summit event in Boston. While the first day of Red Hat Summit was largely about containers, the second day’s focus is on automation. […]

Red Hat kicked off its annual user conference today with a series of announcements that reinforce the company’s commitment to application container development and deployment. Among the new efforts announced by Red Hat is the online OpenShift.io software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for building cloud-native container applications. OpenShift is Red Hat’s product platform for containers and already […]

Intel issued a critical security advisory on May 1, warning of a privilege escalation vulnerability that impacts the Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel Standard Manageability and Intel Small Business Technology management technologies. AMT is an Intel technology that enables organizations to manage and maintain systems. Intel warned in its advisory that if left unpatched, an […]

Just over a week ago, Ben Golub was on stage at the DockerCon 17 conference explaining how well his company Docker Inc. was doing and why container use is the future of technology. While Golub was optimistic about the future of Docker Inc., apparently his future as CEO of the company was to be short-lived. […]

Data privacy is a primary concern for end users and technology vendors alike in the modern world. Among the most stringent data privacy compliance regimes is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In  a video interview with eWEEK, David Jones, senior vice president of the Security and Information Governance Business Unit at Hewlett […]