Sean Michael Kerner

Over the course of the past year, what started as a single disclosure about NSA surveillance activities has exploded into a plethora of information about how the U.S. government has been listening in on the activities of Americans and others around the world. The result has been nothing short of a global conversation about privacy […]

“For me obviously he’s a traitor. If you look up in the encyclopedia ‘traitor’ there’s a picture of Ed Snowden.” -Marc Andreessen (CNBC) http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893 “They [Kodak] had this notion that, ‘You press the button and we do the rest,’” Buytaert said. “It encapsulates how they simplified photography.” – -Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal (eWEEK) “We […]

The Kali Linux distribution comes into play as an optimized Linux distribution built for security researchers. The Kali Linux 1.0.7 distribution was officially released on May 27, providing users with a number of new features. Kali Linux was originally known as Backtrack Linux, before being renamed and rebuilt in March 2013. One of the primary […]

The Internet Storm Center (ISC SANS) ranks two of the newly patched flaws as critical. One, identified as CVE-2014-0224, is an SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) vulnerability that could have a widespread, critical impact. In an MITM attack, the attacker is able to intercept encrypted messages sent between secured endpoints and decrypt the message. “An attacker using […]

Extreme Networks, Flextronics and Oracle officially announced this week that they are joining OpenDaylight, bringing the total number of members in the effort up to 39. The initial group of members that launched OpenDaylight in 2013 included: Arista Networks, Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, NEC, […]

Networking vendors Juniper and Aruba are partnering on wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies under a deal announced this week. A big question that needs to asked about the Juniper/Aruba partnership is where it leaves Juniper’s Trapeze WLAN business. Juniper acquired Wi-Fi vendor Trapeze Networks for $152 million in 2010 in a bid to improve its WLAN […]

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for the first quarter of 2014, overall revenue came in at $10.9 billion, for a 2.2 percent year-over-year decline. In contrast, Gartner reported that it saw a 4.1 percent year-over-year decline on quarterly revenue of $11.4 billion. From a server shipment perspective, IDC reported that 2.1 million units […]

It took more than 100 years of evolution for the modern photography industry to reach its current state, and there are lessons from that century that apply to the modern world of cloud and Web development too. That’s the message delivered by Dries Buytaert, founder of the open-source Drupal content management system (CMS), during his […]

Oracle this week is updating its Oracle Enterprise Manager platform with a new update that builds on existing application management capabilities. The Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c release 4 update, provides improved lifecycle and IT operations management features. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c debuted in October of 2011, providing users with private cloud lifecycle management capabilities. In […]

Cavium is aiming be a force of nature in the ARM chips market with its new ThunderX lineup of system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs announced this week. At the top end of the new ThunderX lineup is a 2.5 GHz 48-core 64-bit ARMv8 SoC. The ThunderX is based on a 28nm process and is being built under […]

Enterprise WLAN revenues grew by 10.3 percent on a year-over-year basis, according to IDC. Consumer WLAN is also growing, albeit at a slower pace of only 3.8 percent year-over-year. From a vendor perspective, Cisco still leads the pack for enterprise WLAN with a 47.9 percent market share, which is down from 52.8 percent in the […]

The most basic form of spam—a high volume of unsolicited bulk email that is sent from a single IP address—is easily detected and blocked by anti-spam technology today. Snowshoe spam is a new variation on this theme. Think of a real snowshoe, which distributes a person’s weight over a broader area than just a person’s […]