Sean Michael Kerner

Google is out with its first stable Chrome browser update of 2015, with security vulnerabilities fixes topping the list of improvements in the new release. In total, Google is patching 62 different security flaws in the update. In contrast, Microsoft has yet to provide a single security patch for its Internet Explorer browser in 2015, […]

Oracle’s new X5 Engineered Systems portfolio is a bid by the company to provide lower-cost two-socket converged infrastructure systems running Linux at very competitive price points. The plan with the X5 now is to have a lower price to more directly compete against Cisco UCS. “We have a new strategy; we’re going to compete for […]

Google’s Project Zero has a policy of automatically disclosing vulnerabilities 90 days after they have been reported to a vendor. Google reported the two new security issues to Microsoft on Oct. 17, 2014, putting the 90-day deadline date for disclosure at Jan. 15. The two new security vulnerabilities include Google Security Research issue #127, which […]

Malware is an issue that is costing enterprises approximately 395 hours a week chasing down alerts that aren’t always accurate, according to a new Ponemon Institute study, sponsored by Damballa. The study included responses from 630 surveys completed by IT and IT security professionals in the United States. The purpose of the study was to […]

Among the key enhancements in the new platform refresh is the fact that all CX70 series appliances now leverage an all-SSD datastore architecture. The new platform also includes up to two times more RAM than the previous generation of devices, in a bid to be able to support heavier-weight secure application protocols. s a company, […]

For the fourth quarter of 2014, Intel reported revenue of $14.7 billion, up by six percent year-over-year. For the full 2014 fiscal year, Intel’s revenue was $55.9 billion, also up by six percent year-over-year. Net Income for the fourth quarter was reported at $3.9 Billion for a 39 percent improvement over the fourth quarter of […]

Infonetics’ third quarter 2014 (3Q14) Enterprise Telepresence and Video Conferencing Equipment report shows flat year-over-year revenue growth for the market segment. Infonetics reported that global enterprise video conferencing and telepresence revenue came in at $838 million for the third quarter of 2014. While year-over-year growth was flat, the 3Q14 figure represents an 11 percent gain […]

Mozilla has provided nine security advisories as part of the Firefox 35 update, three of them rated as critical. Among the critical advisories is MSFA-2015-01, which details memory safety issues in Firefox. There is also a critical security advisory for a read-after-free vulnerability in WebRTC, which is the underlying technology that enables the Firefox Hello […]

This week, Rapid7 security researcher Todd Beardsley strongly criticized Google for not patching a security vulnerability that he disclosed to the search giant. The security flaw disclosed by Beardsley is in the WebView component that is part of the default Android Web browser in versions of Android prior to 4.4 KitKat. According to Beardsley, Google […]

The z13 system can support up to 10 TB of memory and as many as 8,000 virtual servers. “We spent over $1 billion on the platform and have over 500 patents that have been filed around the z13 platform,” John Birtles, Director System z Business Development and Technical Enablement at IBM, explained to ServerWatch. “There […]

The open-source Docker container virtualization technology has become increasingly popular for building, packaging and deploying applications. As Docker deployments grow, there is a need to make sure that proper enterprise security policy is applied, and the CloudPassage Halo system is aimed at addressing that challenge. While Docker containers reduce the attack surface relative to other […]

Microsoft on Jan. 13 rolled out its first Patch Tuesday update of the new year, which included eight security bulletins, with one rated as having critical severity. One technology that did not receive a patch on January’s Patch Tuesday was Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser. Throughout 2014, IE was the single most patched Microsoft technology, […]