Sean Michael Kerner

Security startup Capsule8 emerged from its stealth mode in February with a plan to help provide a new model for application container security. In a video interview with eWEEK, Capsule8 CTO Dino Dai Zovi and CEO John Viega explain what’s missing from container security today and what they are building to help fill the gap. “Capsule8 […]

IT Professionals Feel Security Pressure From Cloud, Others’ Breaches Security services firm Trustwave released its 2017 Security Pressures Report on April 12, providing insight on a global study based on responses from 1,600 full-time IT professionals. As was the case in 2016 edition of the report, respondents reported that they felt increasing security pressures over […]

Container management software vendor Rancher Labs announced the general availability of its RancherOS 1.0 Linux distribution on April 12, providing organizations with a stable, supported operating system option for container deployment. Rancher Labs emerged from stealth back in September 2014 with the promise of building an enterprise-level platform for managing containers. The core management platform […]

Authentic8 updated its flagship Silo secure virtual web browser service on April 10, with the ability to integrate into Secure Web Gateway (SWG) technologies. SWG technologies include firewall, proxies and edge gateways that are used to filter and direct user traffic. Running a secure web browser isn’t just about running the latest version of an […]

Canonical Enhances Its Ubuntu Linux OS With ‘Zesty Zapus’ Release Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system, is set to issue the Ubuntu 17.04 “Zesty Zapus” release on April 13. This release follows the Ubuntu 16.10 milestone that debuted in October 2016. On the desktop side, Ubuntu 17.04 once again uses […]

On April 11, Adobe released its monthly Patch Tuesday update, providing patches for 59 vulnerabilities across its software application product portfolio, fixing multiple issues first revealed at the Pwn2Own 2017 hacking contest in March. The Adobe updates include seven security vulnerabilities in Flash Player (CVE-2017-3058, CVE-2017-3059, CVE-2017-3060, CVE-2017-3061, CVE-2017-3062, CVE-2017-3063, CVE-2017-3064), one in Adobe Campaign […]

The U.S Department of Justice announced on April 10 that it has taken several steps to dismantle the Kelihos botnet, that has been actively attacking users around the world. Among the actions taken by the DOJ is the arrest of the alleged individual that was helping to operate the Kelihos botnet. The DOJ complaint alleges […]

Microsoft Office users are under attack today from a zero-day vulnerability that is not set to be patched until April 11. Security firm McAfee first publicly posted about the new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word files on April 7, with security firm FireEye following with its own disclosure a day later on April 8. At […]

While New Malware Declines Overall, macOS Malware Spikes A common theme in security reports is that month after month, there are more new threats and attacks. But that was not the case with McAfee Labs’ latest threat report, which was released on April 6. The report, which provides visibility into security trends during the fourth […]

When the WikiLeaks disclosure of hacking tools known as Vault 7 was first released in February, it wasn’t immediately clear where and when the tools were used. Security firm Symantec is now providing new insight into the use of the Vault 7 hacking tools, connecting the tools to a string of attacks known as Longhorn […]

The Mirai internet of things (IoT) botnet, whose first attacks were largely just distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ones, has also been active installing Bitcoin mining code on some victims, according to new research from IBM Security. Mirai became publicly known in late 2016 thanks to a series of attacks that included one on DynDNS that slowed traffic […]

The open-source Xen hypervisor is widely used to help enable public cloud operations. Back in October 2014, a vulnerability in Xen led to a reboot of public cloud services at Amazon, Rackspace and IBM SoftLayer. This week a new vulnerability was disclosed in Xen, with the potential to enable a guest virtual machine to break […]