Sean Michael Kerner

FireEye has announced multiple vendor partnerships for its TAP (Threat Analytics Platform) in recent weeks, including ones with Adallom and Viewfinity on Jan. 27 and a partnership with ForgeRock announced on Jan. 21. Additional partnerships for TAP will be announced in the coming weeks, said Grady Summers, senior vice president, cloud analytics at FireEye. “TAP […]

From the ‘Real Updates’ files: While some in the security community are chasing GHOSTs this week, there is another update that needs attention. The widely deployed Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is being updated to version 2.4.12 fixing at least four publicly identified CVEs. and for those of you keeping score at home, there was no […]

For the fourth quarter, Juniper reported revenue of $1.10 billion, a 14 percent year-over-year decline. For the full fiscal 2014 year, revenue came in at $4.63 billion for a one percent year-over-year decline. The big line item for Juniper, however, is the $850 million charge for Juniper’s security business. Robyn Denholm, Juniper’s CFO, noted during […]

VMware reported its full year fiscal 2014 and fourth quarter fiscal 2014 financial results on January 27, showing growth in multiple areas of the business. For the fourth quarter, revenue was reported at $1.70 billion, for a 15 percent year-over-year gain. For the full fiscal 2014 year revenue was reported at $6.04 billion,  for a […]

Solomon Hykes launched the open-source Docker project on March 20, 2013, and has sometimes been referred to as the benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of the project. Docker, however, is not a one-person or even one-company project, as it was in 2013. It now enjoys broader participation and support from developers and vendors, including Red […]

There isn’t all the much reason to be afraid of GHOST (gethostbyname) CVE-2015-0235 vulnerability in the open-source Linux GNU C LIbary (glibc) – is there? The GHOST vulnerability was publicly disclosed (http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9) by security vendor Qualys on an open-source security mailing list on January 27. While the vulnerability dis “During a code audit performed internally […]

Coinbase is a Bitcoin services firm that has raised $106 million to date in venture funding from a number of well-known investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, as well as the New York Stock Exchange. Coinbase’s most recent funding round was a $75 million Series C round announced on Jan. 20, led by […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is evolving its SureStart technology to provide more security capabilities to its users in the near future. SureStart is a technology that was first announced  by HP in September of 2013 and offers the promise of a self-healing PC BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that can protect users from attacks. Helping to drive SureStart […]

Hadoop is a big deal in the world of Big Data applications and analysis, but getting qualified staff to actually run Hadoop can be a big challenge. In a bid to help reduce the Big Data skills gap, Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies today announced a series of initiatives that will make up to $50 million […]

Both Facebook and Instagram were unavailable for approximately 40 minutes late on Jan. 26 due to an outage that was initially feared to be a hacker attack, thanks to public claims made by a hacker group. However, Facebook has denied that it was the victim of an attack. This was not the result of a […]

The Lastline platform provides a full-system emulation approach to detecting malware and potential breach risks. At the core of the platform, Lastline leverages the open-source QEMU (Quick EMUlator) emulator, which, according to Kirda, Lastline has heavily modified and extended. “Malware has become very evasive, so when you attempt to analyze it, the behavior can change,” […]

WordPress is a popular open-source content management and blogging system that is available in a hosted model on WordPress.com and as a self-hosted application that users can choose to host wherever they want. WordPress.com also offers the Jetpack plug-in for self-hosted WordPress users, which provides multiple services to help users manage and secure sites. WordPress […]