Sean Michael Kerner

Released June 10, Firefox 30 improves on the Firefox 29 browser, which debuted April 29 with the biggest user interface update for the open-source browser in years. On the user interface side, the Firefox 30.0 release notes indicate that the sidebars button in the browser now enables faster access to social, bookmark and history sidebars. […]

From the “It’s about time’ files: I’ve been following the Designate project, which provide DNS-as-a-Service for OpenStack for some time. It’s a project that seems painfully obvious to me, enabling DNS features within an OpenStack cloud deployment. DNS is a critical network service and without it, I really don’t understand how OpenStack service providers could […]

According to Tripwire’s data for Patch Tuesday, the June IE update has the highest number of identified Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) for IE in a monthly patch since 2009, when Tripwire first started recording patch trend data. Among the 59 IE security fixes is a patch for a zero-day issue revealed by Hewlett-Packard’s Zero […]

The Putter Panda campaign, referred to by other security firms as MSUpdater, has been ongoing since at least 2012. The CrowdStrike disclosure on the Putter Panda campaign identifies hacking efforts that are likely directly tied to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) 3rd Department, 12th Bureau, Unit 61486. The efforts of Unit 61486 are likely […]

RHEL 7 is the first major milestone update release for Red Hat since RHEL 6 was officially launched in November 2010. A lot has happened in the Linux development community and the broader technology landscape over the last four years, and RHEL 7 is an effort to reflect that change. Denise Dumas, senior director of […]

HP has been talking about SDN for several years at this point, and the Virtual Application Network (VAN) controller has been a cornerstone of the vendor’s overall strategy since February of 2013. Now VAN is being expanded with the new Virtual Cloud Networking (VCN) application, which links HP’s software defined networking efforts with its Helion […]

At the top of the new HPC server portfolio is the Apollo 8000, a liquid-cooled server solution. Density is a key attribute for the Apollo servers, and with the Apollo 8000 up to 144 servers can be combined in a single rack. From a management perspective, the HP Apollo 8000 System Manager provides management functionality […]

According the the new IBM X-Force second quarter 2014 Threat Intelligence Report, the problem of spam has not gone away, but has actually increased. Michael Hamelin, lead X-Force security architect for IBM Security Systems, told eSecurity Planet that when IBM was putting together the Q2 report, the biggest surprise was the massive uptick in spam. […]

Though the term ‘cloud’ is often used, the definition of what actually constitutes a private cloud is debatable for some. Server virtualization, from VMware and other vendors, is technology that has been around for a decade, but simply running a virtualized server infrastructure doesn’t equate to having a private cloud deployment. In a video interview, […]

The third major milestone release this year of the open-source Linux kernel is now available, providing users with new and improved features. The Linux 3.15 kernel follows Linux 3.14, which was formally released on March 30. Among the enhanced capabilities in the Linux 3.15 kernel is improved suspend and resume performance. The new suspend and […]

The open-source Docker container technology has been one of the most hyped and talked about virtualization technologies of the past year. On Monday June 9, Docker finally reached the 1.0 milestone, marking the first stable release and the debut of commercial enterprise support. Ben Golub, CEO of Docker, told eWEEK that Docker 1.0 is a […]

The lessons of Heartbleed have been learned well. The open-source OpenSSL Project disclosed and patched seven security updates on June 5, and the process was markedly different from the activity that led up to the disclosure of the Heartbleed flaw in April. One thing that has changed for OpenSSL since Heartbleed surfaced is that there […]