Sean Michael Kerner

The MS13-027 bulletin describes one of the most interesting sets of flaws that Microsoft is fixing this month. The bulletin titled “Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation Of Privilege” encompasses three separate vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-1285, CVE-2013-1286 and CVE-2013-1287), all of which are labeled as “Windows USB Descriptor Vulnerability.” “An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when […]

The ISR G2 hardware was first announced in October 2009, extending the ISR platform that Cisco initially introduced in September 2004. Lasser-Raab stressed that the ISR-AX bundling is more application aware than the ISR-G2 is out of the box. The ISR-AX includes additional hardware and software modules to enable a full application optimization and visibility […]

This week Canonical announced that Ubuntu 12.04 has now been certified across the latest generation of Dell 12G servers powered by the Intel Xeon E5. The Ubuntu 12.04 release debuted in April of 2012 as a Long Term Support (LTS) Linux distribution. A core focus for Ubuntu 12.04 is the cloud and in particular the […]

Akamai uses a number of different Big Data type back-ends to help deliver security analytics. One of them was built by Akamai on its own, as a real-time telemetry monitoring system that leverages the company’s home-grown Query database. “It’s a distributed write, centralized read database,” Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer at Akamai explained. “What it […]

Flyscript is an umbrella effort across the Riverbed portfolio, initially providing REST-based APIs as well as a Python SDK to enable developers to extend and integrate with specific Riverbed technologies. Christopher White, senior director, Riverbed Technology Council, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that Flyscript builds on an existing effort at Riverbed. For the past 10 […]

From the ‘Linux Everywhere’ files: It should come as no surprise that Akamai, the world’s largest Content Delivery Network uses Linux as a core underpinning for its’ 120,000 server network. What might not be as well known is that Akamai builds its own flavor of Linux to support its network. Akamai’s Linux is based on […]

In a video interview with eSecurity Planet Symantec Chief Technology Officer Steve Trilling detailed his company’s efforts in the Big Data space and the role of automation. Trilling noted that now attacks are so complex and coming from so many different places, that the challenge is about finding the needle in the massive haystack of […]

Red Hat is now moving to further enable an open source collaborative development model for OpenShift, making it easier for non-Red Hat people to contribute and participate in the platform’s evolution. To that end, Red Hat is now moving to a new model for contribution, using a public continuous integration (CI) environment and hosting a […]

At the end of 2011, Chris Young joined Cisco as the leader of the company’s new security and government group, tasked with overseeing a massive portfolio of security products and initiatives. In a video interview with InternetNews.com at the RSA conference, Young detailed his role and his challenges at the world’s largest networking vendor and […]

“A well kept secret across Cisco for years has been that there is a tremendous amount of security being done in various places in the company.” Christopher Young, SVP security at Cisco (Enterprise Networking Planet)   “Creating a successful open source community isn’t a quick or easy effort, but it’s one that takes time, investment […]

Tilera was demoing its 72-core TILE-Gx this past week at the RSA conference where ServerWatch was able to see the hardware up close. Bob Doud, director of processor strategy for Tilera, explained that big hardware vendors will often take Tilera processors and then design them into products. Tilera also has a 1U developer server to […]

At the 2013 Pwn2own browser security challenge, operated by HP TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), during which Chrome, Firefox and IE were all hacked and demonstrably shown to be at risk from previously unknown vulnerabilities. “We wanted to demonstrate as many bugs as we could,” said Brian Gorenc, manager of vulnerability research, Zero Day Initiative, […]