Sean Michael Kerner

To protect enterprise networks and computing infrastructure, IT typically employs a range of security products to head off and respond to the growing number of security threats. Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) products are one form of security protection and IBM invested heavily in market with its 2006 purchase of Internet Security Services (ISS). Now, as […]

Novell’s openSUSE has a new version number as well as new features added in its latest update to version 11.3. ServerWatch takes a look at what makes the new release tick: Support for the 2.6.34 Linux kernel might be an obvious addition, but then there’s LXDE, the low-end X11 desktop. Let’s not forget

From the ‘Everyday Risks‘ files: One of the greatest features of the Mozilla Firefox open source web browser is its incredible extensibility by way of add-ons. Yet as events this week have shown — yet again – Mozilla’s add-on security model is far from secure. This week Mozilla pulled the Mozilla Sniffer from its add-ons […]

Big news for fans of the open source NoSQL database CouchDB: The project has begun offering its 1.0 release, capping a half-decade of development work that’s seen it add features and boost performance while upping its appeal to enterprises and Linux distributions like Ubuntu. But CouchDB can’t rest on its laurels just yet. Developer.com takes […]

Oracle has issued its third and largest Critical Patch Update of the year, offering 59 patches to address vulnerabilities in a number of its technologies, including a new round of fixes for the Sun technologies it acquired through the blockbuster acquisition. With the release, Oracle is releasing 21 patches to clean up Sun security issues, […]

SugarCRM is out with a major new release of its flagship customer-relationship management offering. Sugar 6 boasts added extensibility features to connect with partners and a new interface that aims to boost productivity. SugarCRM is an open source project at its core, but the release of Sugar 6 has some key differences between the commercial […]

Ensuring software quality can require a lot of tools because not all of them are looking for the same kinds of defects. As DevX reports, two software development tools providers are teaming up on a solution they say will improve the quality of code, performance and identify security issues. Scans from Coverity and Armorize engines […]

From the ‘Tab as Apps‘ files: Firefox 4 is set to get an amazing new tab feature that I think will change the way users think about tabs. It’s called the ‘App Tab’ and it’s currently in the Firefox 4 Beta 2 nightlies (so no, it’s not generally available, yet). The basic idea is that […]

Linux is already considered to be among the most secure operating systems. But when it comes to security, there is rarely such a thing as too much. DevX reports on the latest efforts by Intel’s Wind River embedded operating systems division to enhance the security of its Linux embedded offering. Whether there is sufficient demand […]

Google is looking to demystify the process of building mobile apps for the growing number of devices that run on its Android operating system. The success of smartphones, as Apple has ably proven with its iPhone, is in large measure determined by the strength of the third-party applications that run on them. In that spirit, […]

As new and growing security threats emerge, there’s been a surge of interest – and sales –of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). CIO Update reports that IPS is also a highly competitive field with big IT firms like Cisco, HP and IBM battling to win customers. But in addition to competition, IPS innovation and deployment is […]

Securing the enterprise network is big business, with Intrusion Prevention Solutions (IPS) alone estimated to rake in more than $1 billion by 2014. But there’s good reason that the market is growing: The dangers facing enterprise IT organizations are growing as well. Not surprisingly, CIOs are putting some pretty high demands on IPS vendors — […]