Sean Michael Kerner

Security vendor CounterTack is expanding the capabilities of its next-generation endpoint detection and response platform with new data loss prevention functionality. CounterTack officially launched its Endpoint Threat Platform providing EDR capabilities in February 2017. Now new DLP features are being directly integrated into ETP, providing users with a single endpoint agent sensor to help detect and […]

ONS 2017 Tracks Progress in Open Source Networking Projects The Open Networking Summit (ONS) hosted by the Linux Foundation in Santa Clara, California, has emerged to become one of the leading networking events in the industry. At this year’s event, which is taking place April 3-7, there were multiple announcements about new open-source networking efforts, […]

The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) website was allegedly infiltrated by Chinese nation-state threat actors, according to a new report from Fidelis Cybersecurity. The attack against the NFTC site has been dubbed ‘Operation TradeSecret’ by Fidelis and is seen as an attempt to gain insight into individuals closely associated with U.S trade policy activities. Fidelis […]

Google is out with its April 2017 Android security update, patching 102 different vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system. Of the vulnerabilities patched by Google this month, only 15 are rated as having critical impact. Not surprisingly, the mediasever component is once again being patched by Google. The Android mediasever has been patched in every […]

The dream of a converged Ubuntu Linux desktop user interface environment is no more. For the last six years, Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has been pitching a convergence vision that included desktop, server, cloud and mobile footprints. The cornerstone of that convergence dream was the Unity desktop environment, which […]

Vivaldi Web Browser Gains Yet More New Features Vivaldi Technologies is continuing to add new features to its Vivaldi web browser as it aims to differentiate it from other web browsers. Since Vivaldi hit its 1.0 milestone in April 2016, the company has been steadily improving it with regular updates. The most recent update is […]

It’s that time of year again, when Americans rush to file income taxes with the U.S Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and hackers fill inboxes with tax-related spam and phishing email attacks. As the Tax Day 2017 filing deadline of Tuesday April 18 nears, IBM Security is warning of a spike in tax-related spam email and […]

Six years after Intel completed its $7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, McAfee today is now once again its own independent company. Intel had announced its intention to spin-out the McAfee business in September 2016, with Intel selling a 51 percent stake in the company to private-equity firm TPG for $3.1 billion in cash. […]

A cyber-attack that was first active in 1996 under the name Moonlight Maze, could well still be active today, 20 years after it first appeared, according to new research conducted by Kaspersky Lab and Kings College London researchers. The original Moonlight Maze attack impacted the Pentagon, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. The attack […]

Alexis Richardson is a big advocate of the emerging cloud native computing paradigm, serving as the chair of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). At his day job, he is the CEO and co-founder of Weaveworks, which is aiming to build a cloud native business, providing organizations with a […]

VMware customers now have patches for four different security vulnerabilities that were first demonstrated at the Pwn2Own hacking competition on March 17. Two separate groups of security research teams were able to successfully exploit VMware products at the Pwn2own event that awards security researchers for demonstrating zero-day vulnerabilities in software. Team 360 Security researchers from […]

Container Orchestration Moves Forward at Cloud Native Computing Event BERLIN—The CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 event held here March 29-30 brought together vendors, developers and users interested in the evolving space that defines itself as cloud native computing. The big news out of the event was the formal approval of Docker’s containerd runtime and CoreOS’ […]