Sean Michael Kerner

A hacker group known as “The Dark Overlord” leaked 10 upcoming episodes of Netflix’s original series Orange Is the New Black after allegedly breaching a third-party partner. The hacker group claimed that Netflix refused to pay a ransom before leaking the episodes online on April 29, warning that other media outlets will be next. In […]

Cyber-Attacks Continue to Be Financially Motivated, Verizon Finds Over the last 10 years, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has provided a highly detailed data set on security breaches. The 2017 edition of the report, which was released on April 27, analyzed a filtered data set of 42,068 security incidents across multiple industries around […]

Cloudflare announced its new Orbit service on April 27, providing Internet of Things (IoT) vendors with a new platform to help secure devices against potential cyber-attacks. Cloudflare is perhaps best known for its global network that helps to protect organizations against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, though the company has expanded its security aspirations […]

VC Cash Infusion Helping Security Vendors Bolster Efforts Security remains one of the hottest sectors of IT for venture capitalists and vendors alike. In April, a number of firms raised new funding to help support and grow their technology and go-to-market efforts. The new funding highlights the different areas of security that are growing, including […]

Verizon has released its 10th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), providing insight into how cyber-attackers are exploiting organizations. Among the key trends that Verizon observed in 2016 is the growing use of ransomware, though overall, the techniques used in past years to exploit organizations are still being used. The 2017 DBIR report doesn’t measure […]

Security firm RiskIQ has identified a new threat actor that is allegedly behind an online network that is delivering scam advertisements from thousands of different domain names. In a report titled, “NoTrove: The Threat Actor Ruling a Scam Empire” RiskIQ details the activities of the NoTrove campaign, which makes use of automation to stay a step […]

Symantec released the latest edition of its Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) on April 26, providing insight into security trends over the course of the past year. Among the big trends noted by Symantec in the 77-page report is a sharp increase in politically motivated attacks as well as an increase in ransomware payouts. “Traditionally, […]

Employees Continue to Engage in Risky Online Behaviors, Study Finds Every organization has employees, and those employees potentially could be a significant source of security risk. A new Dell-sponsored study of 2,608 IT professionals from around the world conducted by Dimensional Research provides insights into some of the unsafe activities in which users engage. For […]

Hyundai Motor America is patching its Blue Link Mobile application for several vulnerabilities that could have potentially exposed vehicle owners to risk. The Blue Link Mobile application works with Hyundai vehicles from the 2012 model year and newer, providing remote locking and unlocking capabilities, as well as location services and vehicle starting. The vulnerabilities were […]

Updating software is one of the most important ways to keep users and organizations secure. But how can software be updated securely? That’s the challenge that The Update Framework (TUF) aims to solve. Justin Cappos, assistant professor at New York University, detailed how TUF works and what’s coming to further improve the secure updating approach […]

There is a new internet of things (IoT) project launching at the Linux Foundation today—EdgeX Foundry. Dell is contributing its Fuse IoT code base as the initial code for EdgeX Foundry, providing an open framework for IoT interoperability. Dell is not alone in supporting EdgeX Foundry, as the project has a long list of founding […]

DockerCon 17 Focuses on Enterprise Adoption of Containers The DockerCon 17 conference, held April 17-20 in Austin, Texas, provided a showcase for the latest and greatest in container technologies. At the show, Docker Inc., the lead sponsor of the open-source Docker application container project, made several announcements, including the introduction of a LinuxKit build-your-operating-system effort, […]