Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘No Linux 4.0 isn’t out…yet’ files: The open-source VirtualBox virtualization project is out with its 4.3.24 update today providing a number of important updates and bug fixes. Among the most interesting for me is bug #13835, which is a fix to enable VirtualBox for the Linux 4.0 kernel. The bug is actually titled, […]

From a technical organizational perspective, the open-source MidoNet project is the upstream code. Johnson noted that Midokura will then occasionally pull down a MidoNet release and turn it into a Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) release. This week’s release is MEM 1.8, which is based off of MidoNet 2015.01. “MEM adds a couple different closed source […]

Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager of OpenShift at Red Hat told ServerWatch that the key idea behind OpenShift Commons is to enable open and transparent discussion. Red Hat’s OpenShift platform is already available in three deployment models including OpenShift Online, OpenShift Enterprise and the OpenShift Origin open-source project. Participants in the OpenShift Commons […]

Two years ago in February of 2013, the largest SSL Certificate Authorities (CAs) in the world came to together to create the Certificate Authority Security Counsel (CASC). Now in 2015, where does that organization stand and what have they been up to over the last two years? The CASC includes the participation of GoDaddy, Comodo, […]

The new platform is an extension of an existing partnership between Juniper Networks and Canonical. “Juniper has been selling a product called Contrail Cloud that is powered by Ubuntu from base server operating system point of view,” Ankur Singla, corporate vice president and general manager, cloud software at Juniper Networks, told Enterprise Networking Planet. “With […]

Emailage uses email addresses for user identity to help find potential fraud. The Emailage system is not an anti-spam platform, but rather it is an anti-fraud technology that can be leveraged by merchants and organizations to use email addresses to limit the risk of potentially fraudulent transactions. Rei Carvalho, CEO of Emailage, explained that the […]

For the first quarter of fiscal 2015, HP reported revenue of $26.8 billion for a five percent year-over-year decline. Looking at specific segments within HP, software revenue was down by five percent, business critical systems revenue declined by nine percent while industry standard server revenue grew by seven percent. HP’s Helion cloud business was also […]

Docker Machine is a technology that enables the Docker Engine—the application virtualization piece of Docker—to be quickly deployed on any server. Docker Swarm provides Docker container clustering capabilities, and Docker Compose enables multiple containers to be pulled together to run a single logical application. “These are the first versions that a broad set of users […]

Facebook reported the highlights of its bug-bounty program in a note posted on Feb. 25, revealing that $1.3 million awards were paid out to 321 researchers around the world in 2014. A Facebook spokesperson told eWEEK that the single largest payout in 2014 was $30,000, and the top earner collectively earned $86,000 in 2014. While […]

Luke Walling, general manager and vice president, SMB, told eSecurityPlanet that Avast for Business is different than Avast’s existing consumer offering, which is also freely available. “This is a true business-grade platform, and our cloud management console includes all of the alerting and reporting functionality that you’d expect to see in a paid offering,” Walling […]

The primary website for Lenovo was briefly redirected in the afternoon of Feb. 25, due to what appears to be a hack of the Domain Name Service (DNS) records for the lenovo.com website. DNS lookup of the lenovo.com domain by eWEEK at 5:20 PM EST showed that the hacked site title and description was still […]

Intel Security published a new report on February 24, shedding light on the continuing lack of proper transport layer security for mobile apps. In September of 2014, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie Mellon University publicly identified  a list of multiple mobile apps that had having SSL (Secure Socket Layer) security issues. In […]