Sean Michael Kerner

Yahoo was right; it was nation-state backed attackers from Russia who perpetrated a breach of 500 million Yahoo users in 2014. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on March 15 that a grand jury in the Northern District of California has formally indicted four defendants, including three Russian nationals and one resident of Canada. “The […]

Parrot Security OS 3.5 Improves Linux Security Tools Distribution There seems to be no shortage of Linux distributions specifically designed and built for security researchers. That list includes the Parrot Security OS Linux distribution, which was updated to version 3.5 on March 8. The Parrot Security OS platform is based on the Debian Linux distribution, […]

Kris Hagerman became the CEO of security vendor Sophos in 2012 and has helped push the company forward ever since. Now in 2017, Sophos faces multiple challenges, including a highly competitive marketplace as well as increasingly sophisticated attackers. In a video interview with eWEEK, Hagerman provides insight into how Sophos is growing and where its […]

The open-source Apache Struts project first disclosed a high impact critical remote code execution vulnerability on March 6 and now it has claimed its first public victim. The Government of Canada confirmed on March 13 that some of its servers were breached by attackers making use of the Apache Struts flaw, also identified as CVE-2017-5638. […]

Once again, the security risks associated with internet of things (IoT) connected devices are being scrutinized, as Rapid7 has publicly disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in Double Robotics devices. Double Robotics, a vendor of mobile telepresence robots that help to enable people to communicate in an innovative way, has already patched two out of the three security […]

Finding bad poetry typically isn’t associated with receiving a $100,000 prize, but that’s what password management vendor AgileBits is now offering. The ‘bad poetry’ is hidden inside of code that regular users should never be able to reach. The idea is that as part of an award contest, if a security researcher can find the […]

The open-source Apache Struts 2 technology is a widely used framework component in Java applications and it’s currently under attack. The attacks follow the March 6 disclosure by the Struts project for a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability identified as CVE-2017-5638. The CVE-2017-5638 issue was patched the same day as the Struts project made the […]

Seven Projects Now Hosted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation In July 2015 the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to advance cloud application management and interoperability. The CNCF initially hosted a single project, the Kubernetes container orchestration and management system. Today, the CNCF hosts seven different open-source projects. The […]

Keeping confidential information and data in the hands of authorized users is an increasingly difficult task in the modern world, when a simple email that might contain sensitive information, can be shared with the click of a button. GigaTrust is in the business for providing document and email encryption protection and is now extending those […]

Cloud-based networking services vendor Cradlepoint announced today that it has raised a new $89 million Series C round of funding, to help grow it efforts to secure organizations and enable managed wireless access. The new round of funding was led by TCV, and brings total funding to date for the company up to $142 million. […]

No one individual company or government entity alone will be able to secure the potential security threats that internet of things (IoT) connected devices represent, according to the Online Trust Alliance (OTA). Rather, the OTA suggests in a new report that IoT security is a collaborative and shared responsibility. The OTA report draws a comparison with global […]

Google is updating Android with its third security patch update for 2017, providing fixes for 105 vulnerabilities. The March 2017 patch count represents a dramatic increase over the 19 flaws that Google patched in its Android March 2016 update a year ago. To date in 2017, Google has provided its Android users with patches for […]