Sean Michael Kerner

In a new effort led by Mirantis, OpenStack – Rounded Kubernetes is coming to OpenStack – sort of. The Mirantis support for Kubernetes is coming by way of the Murano project, which is not an official part of the current OpenStack integrated release cycle. Boris Renski, co-founder of Mirantis, explained to ServerWatch that Murano is […]

HTTP/2 is the next generation of the HTTP protocol that dominates and continues to define the modern web. On February 18, Mark Nottingham, chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, declared that HTTP/2 is done.  That doesn’t mean that HTTP/2 is a finalized standard, but rather that the elements that make up the specification have […]

At the recent Whitehouse Cyber Security Summit, Kevin Mandia, SVP and COO of FireEye and the former CEO of Mandiant,sat on a panel about international law enforcement cooperation, along with representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service. During the discussion, Mandia provided some specific guidance on how organizations should structure […]

There are a number of reasons why more data breaches are discovered and reported by third parties than by enterprises working on their own. “Over the last several years, organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] have gotten increasingly involved in notifying U.S businesses that they have been identified as being compromised,” Ryan Kazanciyan, […]

Social networking giant Facebook is no stranger to the world of open-source, after all, Mark Zuckerberg originally built Facebook on top of open-source infrastructure components. During a keynote at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit on February 18, James Pearce, Head of Open-Source at Facebook, detailed how Facebook’s open-source efforts have been re-invigorated in recent years […]

Brocade reported its first quarter fiscal 2015 financial results on February 19, with revenue coming in at $576 million for a 2 percent year-over-year gain. Revenue growth was not uniform across Brocade’s two key market segments. SAN revenue was reported at $353 million, which is flat year-over-year, while IP networking product revenue was reported at […]

Organizations around the world have deployed all manner of technology to help protect infrastructure and end-points from security risks. Technology however isn’t the only risk that needs to be secured. In a new report from Intel Security, titled ‘Hacking the Human Operating System’, researchers reveal the role of social engineering within cybersecurity The report defines […]

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, addressed the issue open-source code security, during last week’s Linux Collaboration Summit. Zemlin quoted the oft-repeated Linus’ law, which states that given enough eyes all bugs are shallow. That “law” essentially promises that many eyes provide a measure of quality and control and security to open source […]

From the ‘I Ain’t Afraid of No GHOST’ files The so-called GHOST (glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow) vulnerability that was first disclosed in January isn’t just about glibc apparently. On February 19, PHP developers released PHP 5.6.6 providing a mitigation for CVE-2015-0235 – aka – GHOST. In addition to the GHOST mitigation PHP 5.6.6 also includes […]

From the ‘I found it on Reddit’ files: Every so often, a bug shows up in an open-source application that just make me go ..huH? That’s the case with Mozilla firefox bug 949446 which has the ominous title of: “Source Code Disclosure of every possible project” For proprietary software, software source code disclosure is a […]

Apple first introduced two-step verification, in which users get the second password by way of an SMS sent to their smartphone, in March 2013. However, while the company’s two-step verification has been available for nearly two years, it has not been implemented evenly across all of Apple’s products and applications. In September 2014, Apple added […]

Details on which tools nation-state threat actors use are included in the 2014 CrowdStrike Global Threat Intel report that was released this week. Among its findings: The PlugX Remote Access Tool (RAT) is the most observed malware variant used in such attacks. “PlugX is pretty easy to use,” Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike, […]