Sean Michael Kerner

Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday update, delivers  fixes for 14 CVEs spread across nine security bulletins. Though Microsoft is patching a good number of flaws, it is not patching vulnerabilities that were publicly demonstrated at the Pwn2Own 2013 event in March. Though Microsoft is not patching for the Pwn2Own flaws, it is providing a critical patch […]

From the ‘Too Busy for Open Source’ files: Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs is leaving Mozilla. Kovacs became the CEO in October of 2010. I personally will not be among those that are sad to see him go. You see in his entire tenure, I never spoke with him. Not once. As opposed to other Mozilla […]

Browser and security vendors alike have been rushing to reduce the risks of web applications. One such vendor is Quarri Technologies with its Protect on Q solution. The basic idea behind Protect on Q is to provide web application owners with the ability to deliver secured, protected browser to end users. In an exclusive interview […]

HP has finally declared Moonshot to be commercially available and ready for production. The Moonshot system is a converged platform that includes HP ProLiant Moonshot servers in a Moonshot enclosure. While the initial Moonshot announcement in 2011 was all about ARM, today’s commercial availability highlighted the HP Moonshot 1500, powered by an Intel Atom S1200 […]

Nearly every major networking vendor has joined with the major operating system vendors under the auspices of the Linux Foundation to create a massive new SDN framework, an undertaking called the OpenDaylight Project. Nearly every major networking vendor has joined with the major operating system vendors today under the auspices of the Linux Foundation to […]

From the ‘open source browser’ files: A big change is coming for Mozilla Firefox 23 that will force a best practice on web users that is long overdue. Many websites have long mixed SSL content with non-SSL content on the same page. That’s bad. It’s bad because it effectively nullifies the benefit of having SSL […]

In October 2012, IBM advanced its PureSystems portfolio with new PureData servers. McGee said that the PureData Systems help clients more efficiently manage and quickly analyze petabytes of data in minutes and intelligently use those insights to support specific business goals across their organizations. “Most recently, new PureSystems models were launched to help remove the […]

The Oracle Virtual Networking portfolio includes Software Defined Networking (SDN), a Fabric Manager, Fabric Monitor and Fabric Interconnect components. The core of the portfolio is an evolution of technologies that Oracle gained from its 2012 acquisition of Xsigo. Among the updated components is the Oracle Fabric Manager 4.1 release that will provide a common fabric […]

From the ‘Opt-in by Default’ files: Firefox 21 is now in Beta and it introduces a number of new features that will become generally available inside of the next 6 weeks. At the top of the list is a new Health Reporting feature that Mozilla first publicly started talking about in September of 2012. With […]

“I’m like the US postal office – “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night”  will keep me from doing weekly -rc releases’    Linus Torvalds on the Linux 3.9 rc5 announcement (LKML) “OpenStack continues to be a center of innovation for a lot of technology companies”     Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of […]

From the ‘Dude, You Want this Dell’ files: Gamers are the people that push PC hardware forward. Now for the first time a major Gamer PC vendor is offering Linux and it’s loaded for max fragging. Dell’s Alienware division is now out with its X51 Ubuntu PC and it’s the sweetest Linux rig we’ve ever […]

From the ‘open source meetings’ files: There is alot of excitement in the open source community about the emerging WebRTC standard that will enable browsers to become full real-time communications tools. It’s important to remember though that there are other open source tools and efforts that are already somewhat mature to enable open source real […]