Sean Michael Kerner

While the new OpenStack Foundation provides a model for participating vendor organizations to contribute, it also includes a model for user participation. Among the users that now has representation in the new OpenStack Foundation is CERN. “CERN’s business is fundamental physics, finding out what the universe is made of and how it works,” Tim Bell, […]

Bromium vSentry is a microkernel virtualization-based solution that aims to provide secure systems by minimizing, and in some cases eliminating, the risk and attack surface from modern IT security threats. “The grand problem that we think we’re tackling is the trustworthiness of infrastructure,”  Bromium CTO and co-founder, Simon Crosby, told InternetNews. Prior to Bromium, Crosby […]

The Pwn2Own hacking competition has earned a legendary reputation in recent years as the place where the best security professionals in the business prove their skills. the most recent Pwn2own challenges have focused primarily on the Web browser, but that’s about to change. This week,  HP hosted its first mobile Pwn2Own hacking competition at the […]

There was a time when x86 was the only major chip architecture Linux vendor Red Hat cared about. That time has now come to an end as the Linux giant is now taking a serious look at ARM. “ARM is looking increasingly promising,” Tim Burke, VP of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, told ServerWatch in […]

Red Hat is using its open source expertise to its advantage in a new legal battle over alleged storage patent infringement with the Gluster filesystem. Red Hat acquired Gluster in 2011 for $136 million. The Gluster technology is now the cornerstone of Red Hat’s Storage technology, which recently hit its 2.0 release. Backup storage vendor […]

Many CEOs regard IT security as a cost of doing business. Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)2, wants to change that perception and is making it his mission to shift ISC(2)’s focus from the usual security executives to higher-level executives on the business side. “For so long we have been preaching to the converted,” Tipton […]

“It’s not a joke, it’s a real serious effort that we have on our part to make sure that Fedora is well prepared for ARM.” Tim Burke, VP of Linux Engineering at Red Hat (ServerWatch) “For so long we have been preaching to the converted” Hord Tipton Executive Director of ISC(2) commenting on his desire […]

From the ‘What Does Linus Know?’ files: At the LinuxCon USA event, Linus Torvalds told the audience that there are enough Linux kernel developers out there already. As it turns out, that might not necessarily be the case. With the rapid rate of innovation in Linux, there likely still is a need in many companies […]

One of the key elements of the 451 Group’s report new Networking Reference Report is the Heat Rank index that ranks various networking related technologies by interest and adoption rates. Daniel Kennedy, Research Director, Information Security & Networking at 451 Research explained that the heat score is a weighted index that takes into account the […]

While fanboys were buzzing about the merits of the new phone, Apple’s security personnel quietly unloaded one of the biggest Apple software patch updates in the company’s history. Apple’s iTunes 10.7 update for Windows provides patches for no less than 163 security vulnerabilities. All of the flaws are related to the open source WebKit rendering […]

From the “Don’t Panic!’ files: In the spirit of full-disclosure, let me first tell you that I love VirtualBox. I use it every day and it is a core component of my workflow and my digital life. The new VirtualBox 4.2 release out today is now going to make my life, a bit easier. The […]

Cisco is now updating its ASA software to version 9.0 as part of a new security rollout that also includes a virtual ASA appliance and an update IPS hardware appliance. The ASA 9.0 software improves both scalability as well as the inspection capabilities of the Cisco Firewall platform. “We took our Firewall identity capabilities that […]