Sean Michael Kerner

Nebula’s founder and former NASA CTO Chris Kemp said that enterprises primarily want a private cloud that will integrate with existing networks. “What some of these SDN technologies do is way more than most customers actually need,” Kemp said. Nebula CEO Gordon Stit is also not particularly enthusiastic about SDN for private cloud deployments. Stit […]

AT&T has dealt with leaked customer information before. Back in 2010, 114,000 email addresses of AT&T’s Apple iPad 3G customers were leaked. In that incident, Goatse Security and security researcher Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer claimed that they were able to exploit a flaw on the AT&T Website. Auernheimer was arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of […]

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV 3.4) platform, released today, provides new features that make hypervisor-based virtualization easier to deploy and manage. The new RHEV release comes at a pivotal time for the virtualization industry as Docker container-based virtualization is now beginning to pick up momentum. Red Hat is a big supporter of Docker and […]

U.S. retailer Target suffered technical difficulties with its checkout payment systems on Sunday, June 15. Reports from around the country, including Target locations in New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, indicate that the systems trouble led to long lines at the cash registers. The company, however, is not blaming hackers for the incident. Target […]

Chinese restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s confirmed June 12 that it was the victim of a security compromise affecting its credit card payment terminals. The breach draws renewed attention to the vulnerability of point-of-sale systems and the impact of that on restaurateurs and other retailers as well as their customers. Full details on the security compromise […]

The AllSeen Alliance is a Linux Foundation Collaboration Project that got its start in December of 2013. Joe Speed, director of IoT for the AllSeen Alliance, told Enterprise Networking Planet that there has been a lot of interest in the AllSeen Alliance since it was established in December. Speed noted that the group has not […]

Oracle has been talking about adding in-memory capabilities to its database since OracleWorld in September 2013. At an event this week, the company once again was talking about the impact that in-memory will provide to its database and more importantly, to the applications that run on top of it. Tim Shetler, Oracle vice president of […]

A new report from security firm Imperva, lays bare how comment spam is constructed and executed. In contrast to a regular comment, the purpose of comment spam is to embed a link or an unsolicited advertisement. One of the primary purposes of comment spam isn’t to directly exploit a user, but rather to help improve […]

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around since the dawn of the Internet era and are still a pestilence that infests the modern Web. This week, DDoS attacks were leveraged against online services Feedly and Evernote, once again demonstrating the vulnerability in Internet infrastructure. In a typical DDoS attack, a large flood of data from […]

For 2018, Cisco is now forecasting that bandwidth consumption will reach 1.6 zettabytes. In its 2013 VNI forecast, Cisco had predicted that bandwidth consumption in 2017 would reach 1.4 zettabytes. A zettabyte is equal to 1000 exabytes, which is one sextillion bytes. Even though the VNI forecast is a five-year projection for traffic, it isn’t […]

The HP Atalla Cloud Encryption technology does not allow an attacker that takes a snapshot of a user session to be able to capture the user’s encryption key, he said. Managing data encryption as it moves across an enterprise and throughout the lifecycle is also a challenge that HP is aiming to tackle. The new […]

The first signs of trouble with TweetDeck appeared around 11 a.m. ET with warnings of a possible cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. In an XSS attack, code from one location is able to influence another site without authorization. In my own personal usage, I first began seeing Twitter messages with embedded XSS code shortly after 11 […]