Sean Michael Kerner

The Stuxnet worm was an exploit that was used against a nuclear facility in Iran back in 2010, in part by taking advantage of a vulnerability in Windows. The vulnerability that enabled Stuxnet was identified as CVE-2010-2568, which was thought to have been patched by Microsoft in October 2010. More than four years later, Hewlett-Packard’s […]

Apple on March 9 released Security Update 2015-002, fixing five vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system. The company also released iOS 8.2, which provides users with Apple Watch capabilities, as well as six security updates. The most notable of the updates is one for the so-called FREAK vulnerability (factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys) […]

IDC is reporting revenue for the global server market in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14) came in at $14.5 billion, representing 1.9 percent year-over-year growth. IDC noted that the fourth quarter was the third consecutive quarter for server revenue growth. Looking at all of 2014, IDC reported that global server revenues hit $50.9 billion […]

Rapid7’s Incident Response group is being led by Wade Woolwine, who joined Rapid7 in November of 2014 as Manager of Strategic Services. Previously Woolwine worked as a Senior Manager of Managed Defence at FireEye, which is one of the leading firms in the industry or incident response. “With the history of Rapid7 in Metapsloit and […]

Red Hat first announced its Project Atomic effort in April 2014 as part of a broad push into the Docker Linux container space. While Docker is supported on the main Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system edition, that OS is a general-purpose system and is not as tightly optimized for Docker as is Atomic […]

From the ‘Not all A records are alike’ files: Mozilla released Firefox 36.0.1 on March 5, fixing a number of bugs, none which are identified as having a direct security impact, or an associated CVE. That said that this one flaw that was fixed that is ANYthing but usual.Bug 1093983 is titled, “DNS resolver should […]

The FREAK vulnerability, also identified as CVE-2015-0204, is a cryptographic weakness that is triggered by use of what is known as export-grade cryptography. It was reported by the miTLS research effort, which is a joint project of INRIA and Microsoft Research. “This attack targets a class of deliberately weak export cipher suites,” the miTLS researchers […]

Docker Inc., the lead commercial sponsor behind the popular open-source Docker application container virtualization technology, announced this morning that it is acquiring privately held software-defined networking (SDN) vendor SocketPlane. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. David Messina, Docker vice president of marketing, told eWEEK that the deal is an “acquihire,” or […]

IBM has announced a new effort to bring OpenPower Power8 servers to the IBM SoftLayer cloud, though there are few details on what the server offerings which actually include at this point. An IBM spokesperson told ServerWatch that information on system specifications and any comparisons to x86 systems will not be publicly shared until later […]

The Linux Foundation, this week released its 2015 Linux Jobs report, produced by career Website Dice. “The year-over-year data really underscores the trends we’ve all been witnessing: Linux has become the world’s most ubiquitous operating system, and companies need more talent to support it,” Amanda McPherson, Linux Foundation chief marketing officer, told eWEEK. “As such, […]

The Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP) is an effort to help developers build more secure code by providing freely available tools to scan and audit code. SWAMP got its start in 2014 with support for C/C++ and Java and is now expanding to support Python code. SWAMP is funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

Mozilla is expanding its ecosystem of FirefoxOS powered smartphones with the help of partners KDDI, LG U+, Telefonica and Verizon, who are all working to build new classes of smartphones. Firefox OS is now set to power 17 different smartphones that are delivered in 40 different markets around the world. The effort to bring Firefox […]