Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat announced the latest iteration of its Ansible Tower DevOps platform on Feb. 28, providing new workflow and scalability options for enterprises. The Ansible Tower 3.1 release adds multi-playbook workflows as well as additional search and scale-out clustering features. Red Hat acquired Ansible in October 2015 and has been steadily improving the DevOps IT automation technology […]

On Feb. 27, Mozilla announced its first ever acquisition, announcing that it has acquired Read It Later Inc, which is best known for its Pocket technology that enables users to save, share and discover online links. “We can’t disclose details of this deal due to confidentiality reasons,” Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Chief Business and Legal Officer at […]

It should come as a surprise to no one that unpatched and end-of-life (EOL) software is a security risk. What is a surprise, however, is how many organizations in the U.S. continue to run unpatched software. According to Flexera Software’s Q4 2016 Country Reports, 7.5 percent of users in the U.S. had unpatched Microsoft Windows operating […]

The Internet of Evil Things Being Fueled by Mirai Botnet The Mirai botnet has helped to increase awareness of the risk of unmanaged and unmonitored IoT devices. That’s just one of the highlights of the Pwnie Express 2017 Internet of Evil Things report. Organizations Are on the Lookout for Mirai More than half of the […]

Connecting the the dots across disparate pieces of seemingly unconnected bits of data, is often a core element of a successful threat hunting investigation. Security firm Polarity is taking an interesting approach to helping security researchers, with a type of technology the company calls ‘human memory-augmentation’ that aims to bring context and collaboration to security […]

Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy reported critical flaws on the Cloudflare cloud security service, that could have potentially enabled the leakage of user passwords and data. The flaws were initially reported by Ormandy on Feb. 18, though public disclosure of the issue was only made on Feb. 23. “It was clearly a serious […]

The open-source MirageOS unikernel project reached a major milestone on Feb. 23, with the launch of MirageOS 3.0. The basic idea behind a unikernel is that it is a highly-optimized and purpose-built, operating system that can help to enable efficient operation and delivery of applications. The MirageOS 1.0 release debuted back in December 2013 as […]

Crowdsourcing, that is sourcing resources from many different individuals, is a popular concept for fundraising and for code development. Storj Labs is now bringing the idea of crowdsourcing to storage, enabling individuals to share their storage capacity in a secure encrypted way that makes use of Bitcoin’s blockchain technology. Storj Labs announced on Feb. 23 […]

13 New Security Products That Made a Splash at RSA Conference 2017 Many new products and services were announced at the 2017 RSA Conference, which took place in San Francisco Feb. 13-17. RSA, now part of Dell Technologies, used its namesake conference to make a series of announcements around its new Business Driven Security strategy. […]

Cisco is expanding its network security portfolio with new hardware announced on Feb. 22 that provides next-generation firewall protection and management capabilities. The new hardware includes the Cisco Firepower 2100 Series NGFW, which initially will have four different models. The Firepower NGFW technology originally came to Cisco in 2013 as part of the $2.7 billion […]

The OpenStack Foundation announced on Feb. 22 its 15th release of the OpenStack cloud platform with the debut of Ocata. The latest open-source cloud infrastructure platform release had only four months of development time, rather than the typical six months, though it’s still packed with new features and usability improvements. The OpenStack Ocata release follows […]

RSA Conference 2017: From Cryptography to Mysteries of the Universe This year’s RSA Conference, held Feb. 13-17 in San Francisco, saw more than 43,000 attendees show up to learn about the latest security trends, products and services. Among the annual traditions at the RSA Conference is the Cryptographers Panel, which includes Ron Rivest (the “R” […]