Sean Michael Kerner

Hewlett-Packard’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has announced the rules and prize structure for its 2015 Pwn2Own browser hacking challenge that is set to occur March 18 and 19 during the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. In the 2014 Pwn2Own event, the largest single prize was $150,000 for the Exploit Unicorn. However, no researcher was […]

The Identity Finder platform enables enterprises to identify sensitive information in order to take the appropriate steps to prevent data loss or leakage. “With this release, we’re focused on more than just DLP [data loss prevention],” Todd Feinman, CEO of Identity Finder, told eWEEK. “We’re now focused on more of the entire life cycle of […]

Netatmo was storing user WiFi network passwords, then transmitting them in the clear, without any encryption, as part of a data debug dump. The debug information was sent to the Netatmo cloud service, which enables users to track and monitor weather remotely. Netatmo devices are widely deployed across the U.S., and the company has an […]

From the ‘Silver Lining in the Cloud’ files: The open-source OpenStack Foundation grew its’ revenue based by 52 percent in 2014 over 2013. OpenStack Foundation 2014 revenue came in at $17.5 million. That revenue helps to fund OpenStack’s ongoing activities and operations which have a few big milestones set for 2015. There are two major […]

From the ‘It’s not XSS or CSRF’ files: The Apache Software Foundation is out this week with patches for its Tomcat Java middleware server. What interested me most about the update was that it was for flaws first reported in 2014. What also interested me was the type of flaw, which I don’t see all […]

From the ‘Cloud Dev Never Stops’ files: Though the open-source OpenStack cloud platform only has two major releases in any given year, each release is preceded by a steady cadence of incremental milestone updates. For the OpenStack Kilo release which should be generally on April 30, the second milestone update was announced on February 5. […]

From the ‘Not Lollipop’ files: The open-source OpenStack cloud community is now choosing the name for what will be the second platform release later this year. The Kilo release is set to debut in May ahead of the OpenStack Vancouver Summit. The naming convention for OpenStack releases is to be somewhat related to the location […]

LightCyber, which was founded in 2011 and is a privately held security vendor with offices in Israel and the United States, positions itself as an active-breach-detection technology provider. The basic idea behind breach-detection technology is to enable an organization to have visibility into potential security incidents, where an attacker is already in the network. “We […]

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Ubuntu Linux operation system has published its latest Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey, showing the latest trends in server and cloud deployments. While Docker is a hot topic for many, the study found that it is not yet widely used for cloud deployments. Only 18.4 percent of […]

The Allseen Alliance, which is an Internet of Things (IoT) Linux Foundation Collaboration project, was launched in December of 2013. But it was missing one key element — a definitive patent policy. Now at long last in January 2015, the AllSeen Alliance has defined a patent policy for Intellectual Property (IP), which will come into […]

At the heart of the Cloud Managed Networking initiative is technology that Cisco gained through its $1.2 billion acquisition of cloud Wi-Fi vendor Meraki back in 2012. Since the acquisition, Cisco has steadily evolved the Meraki portfolio beyond just core wireless controller functionality, with new devices and security capabilities. “There is a whole bunch of […]

DDoS attacks have also grown in terms of the attack bandwidth volume in recent years. The Arbor report found that the largest DDoS attack in 2014 reached a peak of 400G bps. In contrast, the largest attack in 2004 was only 8G bps. Large-bandwidth attacks are also becoming more common, with Arbor Networks reporting that […]