Sean Michael Kerner

According to Morgan Stanley, a limited amount of information was stolen and doesn’t include Social Security numbers or account passwords. Morgan Stanley publicly admitted on Jan. 5 that it was the victim of an insider data breach. The breach included data on approximately 350,000 Morgan Stanley wealth management clients. – Read the full story at […]

The promise of True Key is that it will enable consumers to securely log on to multiple Websites and online services. Rather than just using a simple password that the user inputs for each specific Website, True Key uses a unique customer attribute to authenticate access. That unique attribute could include what Intel Security refers […]

Point-of-sale (PoS) malware is not the leading cause of retail security incidents, according to IBM. While the U.S. Secret Service believes more than 1,000 retailers have been infected by PoS malware such as Backoff malware, IBM found that command injection vulnerabilities were the leading root cause of retail security incidents in 2014. Retailers reported approximately […]

While much of the networking hype in the last several years has been about Software Defined Networking (SDN) and more recently Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), there are deeper underlying trends that will manifest in 2015. Fundamentally, the promise of SDN that various vendors have evangelized is that of network agility. More often than not, though, […]

Mark McLoughlin is a well-known figure in the OpenStack world, having been identified as the leading code committer to the project in 2013. McLouglin has recently shifted his in-job responsibility away from just code to product development. In a video interview with ServerWatch, McLoughlin details his role at Red Hat and how OpenStack is shaping […]

The debate over disclosure deadlines is not likely to subside any time soon. When zero-day bug information is released publicly, end users are, no doubt, left at risk. The question, though, is whether they are at more or less risk as a result of a bug that is made public before a patch has been […]

Chick-fil-A released a public statement on Jan. 2, confirming that it is investigating a possible data breach at its restaurants. While Chick-fil-A’s statement was issued on Jan. 2, the company admitted that it received a report about a potential breach on Dec. 19. After the report was received, Chick-fil-A indicated that it launched an investigation […]

The top path to exploitation in many cases is out-of-date and unpatched software that enable hackers to take advantage of known vulnerabilities. The WordPress blogging and Content Management System (CMS) is no stranger to the issue of unpatched software and has now taken a large step forward to help reduce the risk, by providing automatic […]

On January 6 of 2014, one Bitcoin (BTC) was valued at approximately $951 U.S, according to Coindesk – a height that the cryrtocurrency never again achieved over the course of the year. On December 29, BTC was valued at approximately $312 USD, down by $639 or 67 percent from its January 6 high. Yet despite […]

Looking into the crystal ball to see what’s in store for IT security in 2015, there are some clear trends that emerged in 2014 that serve as harbingers of security trends in 2015. In 2015, expect to see user credential attacks persist and grow in volume as exploit kits provide increasingly sophisticated tools to enable […]

Prior to 2014, Docker was not well-known, but that all changed over the course of the year. The open-source Docker container virtualization project got its start in March 2013, and in 2014 hit its full stride, achieving its 1.0 release milestone and the embrace of many of the world’s leading IT vendors. To understand why […]

From the ‘It’s Not Firefox Home’ files: It looks like the effort to bring Mozilla Firefox to Apple IOS iPhone/iPad devices is getting real. Some very preliminary code for the effort is now available on Github. At first when I heard that Mozilla was considering bringing Firefox to IOS I had thought – ah it’s […]