Sean Michael Kerner

Security firm Acalvio debuted its ShadowPlex deception technology platform on April 19, marking the first release of the company’s platform. Acalvio emerged from stealth in July 2016 with the promise of an new type of security defensive technology it called – fluid deception. The basic idea behind any deception technology is to provide some form […]

Mozilla released its Firefox 53 update on April 19, introducing a new browser engine and patching 39 vulnerabilities in the open-source web browser. The new browser engine technology in Firefox 53 is known as Project Quantum and is a multipart effort to accelerate and improve the web browsing experience for users. The Project Quantum component included […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Docker is a name that has become synonymous with the application container revolution in recent years. At the helm of Docker Inc. is CEO Ben Golub, who is tasked with leading the company forward and making sure containers are a good idea for not only developers, but also for paying customers. In a video […]

Oracle released its’ largest security update ever on April 18, providing fixes for 299 vulnerabilities across Oracle’s software portfolio.  The previous record for Oracle vulnerabilities fixed in a single update was 276 patches in the July 2016 critical patch update.  Oracle patched 270 vulnerabilities in its January 2017 update, bringing the total number of vulnerabilities […]

10 Vendors Working to Secure Containers From Modern Threats Security is top of mind in nearly every sector of technology today, and that includes containers. One of the early promises of containers is that they offer a more agile method of application deployment, with multiple native security capabilities inherited from Linux. The native security features […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The second day of DockerCon 17 was all about enterprise adoption and what it takes to run containers in production, with Docker Inc. announcing the debut of a new service offering to modernize traditional applications here on April 18. “Enterprise customers have come to Docker asking how they can get started with microservices,” Docker Chief […]

In February, Facebook announced its initial plans for Delegated Account Recovery, providing sites with an open-source protocol and method to securely retrieve and reset account and password information. At Facebook’s F8 conference today, the social networking giant expanded its Delegated Account Recovery effort with software development kits and tools to help any site deploy the […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The DockerCon 17 conference got underway today with Docker Inc. making two major Linux-related announcements. Linux has long been at the core of the container movement and is even more so now with today’s debut of the LinuxKit and Moby Project efforts, which aim to help developers and organizations build their own container-optimized Linux distributions. […]

A new study from security vendor Threat Stack is set to be presented today at the AWS Summit, revealing a host of common security misconfigurations by users that expose their cloud instances to potential security risks. Threat Stack analyzed 200 companies that were using AWS to see if there were any potential security concerns — […]

Container security vendor Twistlock is updating its namesake platform with a 2.0 release that aims to improve container visibility and security. Twistlock unveiled its container security platform in November 2015, providing runtime security options for container deployments. The platform has evolved since then with a steady stream of updates. The new Twistlock 2.0 update includes […]

The hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers released a trove of exploits on April 14, raising the specter of a new group of previously unknown zero-day exploits that potentially could have exposed millions of users to risk. As it turns out, that wasn’t the case—within hours of the Shadow Brokers release, Microsoft issued a […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise reached a major milestone this week, announcing on April 13 that its Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) technology is now Federal Information Processing Standards validated. Terence Spies, chief technologist at HPE Security, said getting its FPE technology FIPS validated has been a long process. “We invented Format-Preserving Encryption back in 2007,” Spies told eWEEK. FIPS […]