Sean Michael Kerner

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) had been tasked by the FBI to operate replacement DNS servers — and those DNS server were in fact taken down on July 9th. However, U.S.-based ISPs have stepped in to cushion the fall by re-routing users to ensure they don’t lose their Internet access. Among those ISPs continuing to […]

“If you haven’t heard the news, I’m thrilled to announce that Digg is now in the hands of Betaworks (makers of bitly, chartbeat, news.me, and other great products).” Kevin Rose, Founder of social media pioneer Digg announcing that his site has been sold, for the paltry sum of $500,000 after once being valued in the […]

Gartner pegged global PC shipments at 87.5 million units for a 0.1 percent year over year decline, a figure echoed by IDC. The biggest drag on global shipments from a geographical perspective was the U.S. According to Gartner, U.S PC shipments came in at 15.9 million units, for a 5.7 percent year over year decline. […]

On Wednesday night, a hacker group known as “D33Ds Company” publicly posted a password dump of 450,000 Yahoo users. According to D33Ds, the attack vector was a Union-based SQL Injection attack. In a statement sent to eSecurity Planet from Yahoo, the company stressed that they take security very seriously and invest heavily in protective measures […]

When the open source Zimbra project started out back in 2006 the focus was on improving email collaboration. It’s a focus that has remained in place as the product has evolved over the last six years to the new Zimbra 8.0 release out today. Zimbra is now the engine behind 85 million commercial mailboxes and […]

For 2012, the Black Hat USA event received more speaking proposal submissions than in any previous year. According to Ford, there were approximately 500 proposals this year, up by over 100 from last year. Talks have been selected by a Black Hat review board comprised of 21 people. According to Black Hat, General Manager Trey […]

Floodlight is an open source Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller, backed by networking startup Big Switch. The new 0.85 release will now integrate with the open source OpenStack cloud platform enabling SDN control across a cloud environment. “Floodlight offers a central management point for OpenFlow networks – it can manage devices like open vswitch transparently […]

The MS12-043 bulletin details the Microsoft XML Core Services vulnerability that was first revealed in the June Patch Tuesday update. That flaw has been exploited in the wild over the past month. While Microsoft is now issuing a patch, it doesn’t cover all possible vulnerable XML scenarios. The patch fixes Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0, […]

The whole point of using business intelligence applications is to get better insight out of data, a task made easier by better engaging end users. Given this, the ability to visualize and interact with data is a key focus for open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft in its latest 4.7 release out today. “What we’ve […]

AlienVault announced this week that it raised $22.4 million in a Series C funding round led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. To date, AlienVault has raised a total of $34 million in three rounds of funding. While AlienVault is a relatively new company, its leadership has plenty of experience in the security space. AlienVault […]

For 2012, Gartner is now forecasting worldwide IT spending to come in at $3.6 trillion. That’s only a 3 percent gain over 2011, when $3.5 trillion was spent. In 2011, IT spending grew at 7.9 percent. While the 3 percent growth rate for 2012 is less than half of 2011 growth rate, Gartner’s figure is […]

From the ‘Sourceforge and Google Code?’ files: Today for nearly anyone starting a new open source project, the default choice for code repository/dev is GitHub. Companies big and small, developers known (like Linus Torvalds) and even wannabe (like me) all use GitHub. It has eclipsed Google Code and Sourceforge and without any doubt in my […]