Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Hope You’re Not on PHP 4.x‘ files: If you’re running PHP on your webserver — and you probably are – you really need to update, NOW. A critical DoS flaw in PHP that was first reported on December 30, 2010 has now been publicly fixed for all PHP users in the open source […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. Cloud computing was one of the big buzz words of 2010 and IT interest in the technology is likely to grow even further in 2011 as enterprises look to reduce the cost and space traditional IT infrastructure requires. Where will the […]

Maybe IPS isn’t enough to keep the barbarians out of the gate. Sourcefire seems to think so, as it looks to expand its security technology with the $21 million acquisition of Immunet in an all-cash deal. In Immunet, Sourcefire acquires a cloud-based anti-malware technology that is designed to work alongside conventional security applications. The deal […]

From the ‘Tending the Farmville Flock‘ files: Social gaming vendor Zynga, best known for Farmville and other Facebook games is acquiring privately-held browser vendor Flock. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. “Flock’s dedication to its products and users allowed us to achieve over 10 million users around the world with two […]

A new year, a new Linux kernel. So begins 2011, as Linux has released the 2.6.37 kernel, its first kernel update since October, promising greater security and performance. The new Linux kernel offers a host of improvements, including memory management, which could yield improvements in multi-threaded programs. On the security front, the new kernel contains […]

There was a time when a phone was just used to make calls, and a computer sat on a desk and lived inside the office. Each tapped into separate networks to communicate with similar devices. How long ago that seems today. In response to the accelerating convergence of mobile and traditional computing devices, Qualcomm has […]

From the ‘First Browser Release of 2011‘ files: The new year has barely started and Google is now out with the first browser milestone release of 2011. Chrome 9 Beta (officially build 9.0.597.42 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame) is now available to Beta-channel users of Google’s browser. This is the second public Beta […]

Few companies are closer to the center of the shift in IT to the cloud than Cisco, and the networking heavyweight is coming to rely increasingly on open source technology as it develops new equipment to facilitate and support cloud-computing deployments. In particular, Cisco is taking an active interest in OpenStack, an open source cloud […]

From the ‘It’s About Time‘ files: I remember well, back in 1996 when Netscape’s browser share was in the 80 percent plus range. Back then IE 3 (and then later versions) were the underdog. We all know what happened next. But flash forward 14 years and it looks like for the first time, Netscape’s successor […]

Price: $140 Pros: IPv6 Remote VPN Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) and QoS Cons: 2.4 GhZ (not dual) Only 100 Mbps on the LAN switch ports (not Gigabit) Until recently, Cisco typically only marketed small business routers under its Linksys brand name. At the beginning of 2010, Cisco started to change its entry level focus with a […]

Novell’s fate seemed to be sealed when it announced its agreement to sell to privately held Attachmate for $2.2 billion, but a condition of that transaction could hold up the sale. That’s because the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a prominent licensing body, doesn’t like a third-party agreement included as a condition of the sale, which […]

From the ‘U.S. CERT’ files: U.S. CERT is out with a note this morning advising users of the open source WordPress cms to update to the new 3.0.4 release. This new release follows the recent 3.0.3 update in early December — itself a quick update to the 3.0.2 update of late November. “WordPress.org has released […]