Sean Michael Kerner

Since my first OpenStack Summit back in San Diego in 2012, there has been one unique defining characteristic that made the event different than any other in the technology world – the event was where developers and users all gathered in the same place. The OpenStack Summit approach included the Design Summit, bringing in the […]

TORONTO — Containers offer many different security benefitA and can even be used to run hacking competitions, without being hacked itself. In a session at the LinuxCon ContainerCon conference in Toronto  Stéphane Graber LXD Technical Lead at Canonical Ltd detailed how the NorthSec capture the flag contest makes use of containers (specifically LXC) to enable […]

The big news out of Dockercon this year was the the Docker 1.12 update, providing an integrated swarm-mode container orchestration system directly into Docker. As a somewhat cautious person when it comes to running new stuff in production, I always wait for the .x.y update (in this case a .1) before running new stuff on […]

LAS VEGAS – Hacking Bluetooth to date has been about buying an Uberone and sniffer the air. A new tool and method was first publicly demonstrated today at DEFCON that creates a Man In The Middle Attack for Bluetooth Smart enabled devices. “Sniffing is so hard and it really sucks,” security researcher, Damien Cauquil said. […]

LAS VEGAS. The era of smartphone based payment systems is now here, but it might be a little insecure. In a presentation at DEFCON 24 here, researcher Salvador Mendoza detailed a litany of design and process flaws in how Samsung Pay work that could potentially enable an attacker to abuse the system. Being DEFCON, Mendoza […]

LAS VEGAS. Few people have ever found as many bugs in Adobe’s Flash as Google Project Zero security researcher Natalie Silvanovich. In a session at the Black Hat USA conference here Silvanovich detailed the year in Flash bugs and what a year it has been. In December of 2015 over 79 bugs were found and […]

LAS VEGAS. This year marks the 10th annual Pwnie Awards (i’ve been to 9 of them – first year I didn’t know about the event but quickly corrected my error), recognizing the best bugs, the most epic fails and the best researchers in the business. Looking at the more whimsical pwnies – the Pwnie for […]

A10 Networks today announced that it is acquiring privately-held technology vendor Appcito. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time. Appcito had raised $15.1 million in venture capital since the company was founded in 2013. “Everyone wants to be more agile and the adoption of cloud and microservices are steps […]

New research disclosed on July 26 by security vendor Rapid7 however reveals that it discovered numerous flaws in the OSRAM Lightify product lineup, that could have exposed users to risk. Most of the flaws have now been fixed in a patch update from OSRAM. In total, Rapid7 found nine different issues impacting the Home and […]

One common opportunity for attackers is the lack of patching by organizations and end users. Cisco looked at 103,121 Cisco devices connected to the internet and found that devices were running known vulnerabilities for an average of five years. Looking at software used across three million servers, Cisco found that the Apache webserver and OpenSSH […]

With a $150 million Series A round of funding, StackPatch is officially being launched today by the company’s CEO Lance Crosby as a new platform to help secure the Internet. Crosby is a well known name in technology circles having been the founder and CEO OF Softlayer Technologies from 2005 until 2013 when the company […]

Everyone is looking for Pokemon these days, thanks to the stellar popularity of Pokemon Go. Now networking vendor Extreme Networks is getting in on the game, albeit from a very different perspective. In a bid to help organizations, identify and potentially limit the risks of Pokemon Go on their networks, Extreme Networks on Monday announced […]