Sean Michael Kerner

The Google-Mozilla partnership was last renewed in 2011 and was set to renew again by the end of this year. While considering the Google deal renewal, Mozilla also considered other strategic options, including a deal with Yahoo. Full details on the new Yahoo deal are not being publicly revealed. What is known is that Yahoo […]

Menlo Security has raised $10.5 million in a funding round that was led by General Catalyst Partners and also involved the participation of Osage University Partners. Steve Herrod, managing director at General Catalyst Partners, will now join the Menlo Security board of directors. Herrod is well-known in the IT industry for the years he spent […]

The Chrome 39.0.2171.65 stable release includes 12 security fixes that Google is rewarding researchers for reporting. In total, Google is paying researchers $41,500 for reporting security vulnerabilities that were fixed in the Chrome 39 release cycle. Google has been paying researchers for finding bugs in Chrome since 2010, and has paid out more than $1.25 […]

In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Awais Nemat, co-founder and CEO of PLUMgrid, explained what’s new in his company’s technology platform and where it’s headed in the future. “We use a Linux container-based deployment model for our software,” Nemat said. “It makes it very easy for our customers to install, deploy and use.” […]

Paul Cormier, EVP and President, Product and Technologies at Red Hat is not what anyone would call a CloudFoundry fan. In a video interview with Datamation, Cormier detailed his views on the PaaS competition. “CloudFoundry has the potential to be Unix all over again,” Cormier said. In the Unix market, fragmentation has been an issue […]

From the ‘Is Google Evil? What About Marissa?’ files: Mozilla has just announced that it is breaking off with its primary sugar-daddy Google as the primary/default search provider in Firefox. Yahoo will now be the default as the result of a new five-year partnership that has just been officially revealed. To say this is an […]

A group of organizations—including Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust and researchers at the University of Michigan—joined with the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to announce the Let’s Encrypt initiative. The goal behind Let’s Encrypt is to make it easier to get a proper Secure Sockets Layer/Transfer Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificate that can be […]

The new SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching technology is derived from the open-source kGraft project, that SUSE has been leading in the upstream Linux community. The kGraft project is about enabling patching of a live running kernel without the need to shutdown and entire system. There are multiple efforts in the Linux ecosystem for live […]

MS14-068, is now out in an emergency out-of-band patch update for a critical vulnerability in the Windows Kerberos authentication mechanism. The vulnerability has been identified as CVE-2014-6324, and, according to Microsoft’s advisory, an attacker could potentially exploit the Kerberos vulnerability to elevate unprivileged domain user account privileges to those of the domain administrator account. “An […]

Three issues fixed by the OS X 10.10.1 update are rated as being important by Apple, and all three represent potential information leakage risks. CVE-2014-4460 is a vulnerability that could impact Apple Safari users employing the Private Browsing mode in the browser. With Private Browsing, the promise is that history and cookie information is deleted […]

From the ‘Don’t advertise in my open-source browser’ files: The recent Mozilla Firefox 33.1 browser release introduces what many in the open-source and Linux communities consider to be a very distasteful feature – namely it includes an  advertising feature by default. That advertising comes on the new tab page, and is on by default. How […]

From the ‘Crushing Dreams’ files: It was on November 9 2004 that Mozilla officially released Firefox 1.0. It was a joyous occasion and Mozilla even took out a full page ad in the New York Times to celebrate the event. I remember that day well and was among the many that wrote about the Firefox […]