Sean Michael Kerner

Once again, Microsoft is dealing with vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer (IE) browser this month. Fourteen different vulnerabilities in IE, spread across two separate bulletins are being fixed. “It’s just so messed up that it couldn’t be fixed in one bulletin,” said Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust. The MS13-009 bulletin is the first of the […]

New research dubbed Lucky13 reveals that SSL/TLS is at risk from a theoretical timing attack that could expose encrypted data. Why is an attack like Lucky13 theoretically possible today? It has a lot to do with increases in available computing and networking power. Though Lucky13 is a theoretically possible attack vector, hackers will likely not […]

From the ‘Database De-Integration’ files: At the core of the OpenStack cloud platform is the Nova compute project. Nova (which began it’s life at Nebula at NASA) is set for what I see as its biggest evolution yet in the upcoming Grizzly release. Since its creation, Nova has had its own direct database access, which […]

2012 was also particularly notable for Riverbed’s performance management business. The company debuted new Cascade appliances during the year and also made a major acquisition. Riverbed acquired OPNET for $1 Billion in October adding new application performance management capabilities. Jerry Kennelly, Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Riverbed said during his company’s […]

Ravello Systems emerged from stealth this week with a beta product release and funding of $26 million in venture capital. “The technology that we have developed allows us to completely encapsulate an application and its infrastructure so it can run on any cloud,” Navin Thadani, SVP of Products at Ravello told Datamation. Ravello calls its […]

“It’s a dog eat dog world. That’s what I got from the survey” Robert Hamilton, director of Product Marketing at Symantec, commenting on a new Symantec survey that found that many employees think it’s ok to take confidential company information (InternetNews)   “So we’ve tried to join the best of both worlds with the full […]

Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen is leaving the company after four and a half years in the top executive position. Verwaayen will remain CEO until his successor has been chosen by the Alcatel-Lucent board. “Alcatel-Lucent has been an enormous part of my life,” Verwaayen said in a statement. ” It was therefore a difficult decision to […]

On Feb. 6, U.S. Marshals joined by Microsoft entered data centers in Virginia and New Jersey to shut down the Bamital botnet and seize evidence. “Our research shows that the Bamital botnet was active worldwide, although the majority of activity affected the United States and Europe,” said Richard Boscovich, assistant general counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes […]

From the ‘Fork that Lives’ files: LibreOffice 4.0 is now generally available and in my mind, it truly marks the end of OpenOffice.org legacy. Though LibreOffice started out as a fork of OpenOffice is has evolved to become so much more. The new LibreOffice 4 feels faster, because it is. It has more features than […]

According to a new global survey sponsored by Symantec, 40 percent of employees will take confidential information with them when they leave a job. Robert Hamilton, director of Product Marketing at Symantec, explained to eSecurity Planet that confidential data takes a number of forms. “Types of sensitive data that employees are taking include contact and […]

IBM this week is introducing eight new Power systems, including a new-entry level system for Big Blue’s big computing platform. “Mid-sized companies have the same challenges as big companies when it comes to gaining insights from Big Data,” Zarina Stanford, Vice President of Power Systems at IBM, told ServerWatch. “Using a system like POWER that […]

Oracle released MySQL 5.6 this week, marking the first major release the open source database in just over two years. Among the key enhancements is the addition of NoSQL capabilities. “SQL is a very flexible language that allows you to do a lot of things that are not possible through a direct NoSQL type approach,” […]