Sean Michael Kerner

The YGN Ethical Hacker Group has publicly disclosed that Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) McAfee security division may have multiple security problems with its website. The group claims that McAfee.com is at risk from Cross Site Scripting (XSS) as well as Information Disclosure issues. The YGN Ethical Hacker Group also claims that they alerted McAfee to the issues […]

AT&T’s (NYSE:T) bid to acquire T-Mobile USA is facing opposition from rival telecom vendor Sprint (NYSE:S). AT&T announced its bid for T-Mobile USA last week in a deal valued at $39 billion. The transaction is not expected to close for another 12 months, pending regulatory approvals. Sprint is hoping that the regulators will block the […]

The next major version of Java is gearing up. The Executive Committee of the Java Community Process has approved the request that will create Java EE 7. Among the key things that Java EE 7 will provide are new capabilities that are geared for cloud deployments. “Java EE is the most pervasive programming model in […]

From the ‘Not Just AWS‘ files: Amazon is a name that was once all about the online book trade. It is now a name that is synonymous with Cloud. Amazon EC2 and S3, Amazon’s best known cloud services though have been mostly targeted at enterprise developers, but that is now changing with the new Cloud […]

From the ‘Ex-Sun Employee‘ files: Google’s Java credibility is about to get a major boost. James Gosling, the creator of Java is now a Google employee. Gosling was among the many former Sun employees that were not happy with the new Oracle ownership. Gosling left Oracle in April of 2010 and has been looking for […]

From the ‘Open Source Compiler‘ files: GCC is one of the most important open source applications in use today, enabling developers to compile their programs. With each incremental GCC release, there always seems to be more speed and stability fixes and that looks to be the case with GCC 4.6 as well. There are a […]

A storage startup called Tintri, led by the former head of VMware’s research and development is now pushing a new approach to virtualization storage. Rather than take traditional storage volumes and map them to virtual machines, Tintri starts with the virtual machine as the starting point. The Tintri storage appliance includes more than 1 TB […]

Open Source software and patents aren’t exactly the best of friends. That fact has not stopped enterprise Linux leader Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) from assembling one of the strongest patent portfolios in the IT business. According to a recent study from The Patent Board, Red Hat’s patent portfolio is now ranked 50th in the Information Technology […]

From the ‘Full Disclosure‘ files: When Mozilla issued Firefox 4 RC 2 last week, the only update was a non-specific SSL cert revocation issue. At the time, I wrote that I thought it was a big deal, though to be honest, I had no insider information. As it turns out, it was a big deal […]

From the ‘Firefox 4? IE 9 ? Our Browser is a 12!’ files: True to form, Google is upping the version number for its browser – with a new dev-channel release for Chrome 12 (technically 12.0.712.0). This is the first Chrome 12 in the dev-channel, though the number of changes are few — that are […]