Sean Michael Kerner

Fiscal 2011 was a challenging year for networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO). The company closed business units and laid off employees. Even in the midst of those challenges, Cisco continues to push forward and realign its business for future growth. Cisco reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 financial earnings late Wednesday. For the quarter, Net Sales […]

The Open Invention Network (OIN) got its start in 2005 as an organization tasked with creating a patent commons to help Linux. Over the years it has grown, and in the second quarter of 2011, the organization added 35 new member companies. That number is down from the 70 new members that the OIN added […]

From the ‘Say It Ain’t So‘ files: I’ve been hearing for years from multiple IDE and tools vendors that Windows is the platform that developers continue to use as their main development workstation. Personally I’ve always been skeptical of that so-called ‘fact.’ This week Evans Data put out a new study claiming that Apple Mac […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) sees opportunity in providing an integrated platform as a service (PaaS) offering for the cloud that enables Java developers. To that end, Red Hat today announced that its JBoss Application Server 7 is now integrated with the OpenShift PaaS, providing an easy on-ramp to the cloud for Java. “I feel like this […]

Adobe is a vendor that often plays catch-up with security exploits; issuing emergency patches issued to fix zero-day vulnerabilities. But Adobe, like Microsoft, also has a regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. This regularly scheduled update is a way to give users and enterprises a predictable and stable timetable for Adobe updates. For August’s Patch Tuesday, […]

For enterprises that outsource their web site and application hosting to the cloud or a content delivery network (CDN), performance is often one of the key drivers for why they moved in the first place. Both Cloud and CDN providers offer the promise of better performance with guaranteed uptimes and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Yesterday […]

There was a time when signature based antivirus was good enough to protect a PC. Those days are long gone, as increasing amounts of research point to the rise of unique and advanced persistent threats (APT) that are not detectable with signature based systems. Security vendor Sourcefire (NASDAQ:FIRE) is the latest to say they are […]

SSL certificates and encryption are supposed to protect websites and users, but there is a catch. For SSL (secure sockets layer) to work properly it needs to be properly configured. According to new research from security firm Qualys presented at the Black Hat security conference last week, the majority of SSL secured sites are not […]

How secure is SAP (NYSE: SAP)? That’s a question that security researcher Alexander Polyakov set out to answer during a session at the Black Hat security conference last week. Polyakov is the CTO of security firm ERPscan, with a specific area of security research into ERP systems. During his presentation, Polyakov identified the potential attack […]

With the rise in popularity of Apple iOS based mobile devices, security researchers are now turning their attention to Apple’s mobile device management (MDM) technology that enables companies to manage their deployments.   At the Black Hat security conference this week, David Schuetz, senior consultant at Intrepidus Group, provided a detailed overview of Apple’s MDM […]

“I’m here to tell you, the Stuxnet attack is the Rubicon of our future.” Ambassador Cofer Black talking at Black Hat warning of the lessons learned from 9/11 (Datamation)   “I didn’t succeed despite what you might have read in some blogs, but I did do some pretty cool stuff.” Security researcher Charlie Miller […]

LAS VEGAS. The general idea behind the new generation of credit cards with chips that require the use o PINs is that they are more secure than credit cards with just a magnetic strip. The problem with traditional magnetic strip credit card is that they can be skimmed. It’s a problem that chip and PIN […]