Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat this week announced Matthew Miller as the new leader of its Fedora community Linux project. Miller takes over for Robyn Bergeron, who announced on May 19 that she was stepping down as Fedora Project Leader. Miller is well-known and respected in the Fedora Linux community for a number of reasons. His first involvement […]

There is a new outbreak of activity from a hacking effort FireEye has dubbed “Molerats,” the security firm is reporting. FireEye has been seeing Molerats activity since October 2012 and saw a specific uptick in activity between April 29 and May 27 of this year, with attacks targeting a U.S. financial institution as well as […]

In a video interview with ServerWatch, Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the OpenStack Foundation, respectively, detail some of the innovations in the pipeline for the OpenStack Juno release. Bryce noted that work is underway for object storage policies that will enable different storage back-ends. The policy could enable […]

In a major coup for Linux vendor Red Hat, the company today announced a significant expansion of support for SAP applications. Applications that can now run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) include SAP Adaptive Server, Enterprise (SAP ASE), SAP IQ software, the SAP SQL Anywhere suite and, surprisingly, the SAP HANA platform. HANA is […]

Security firm Codenomicon has found a new Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) flaw in the GnuTLS open-source cryptographic library. Codenomicon rose to notoriety in April as the security firm that found and branded the Heartbleed flaw in the open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library. GnuTLS is not as widely deployed as OpenSSL, but it is part of many […]

Software Defined Networking (SDN) offers the promise of a more agile and responsive networking infrastructure. But this promise isn’t necessarily directly translating into revenues, as service providers around the world are now hesitating on buying decisions, according to Infonetics Research. “Last quarter, we identified the ‘SDN hesitation,’ where we believe the enormity of the coming […]

Cloud hosting vendor Firehost last week announced that retired U.S. Army Col. Jeff Schilling is now the company’s new chief security officer (CSO). Schilling is well-known in military circles as the former director of the U.S. Army’s Global Network Operations and Security Center, which falls under the U.S. Army’s Cyber Command. “I was the guy […]

The TrueCrypt project is hosted on the SourceForge open-source code repository, which posted an ominous warning May 28:”Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.” The project is now recommending that users migrate away from TrueCrypt to other disk-encryption technologies. Frankly, I’m not too surprised. TrueCrypt was recently audited in a […]

To date, ExtraHop has raised a total of $61.6 million in funding to fuel its growth as a real-time wire data analytics vendor. In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein explains what his company’s technology is all about and why it’s different than simply running an open-source packet sniffer on […]

Dubbed “Newscaster” by iSight Partners, a global provider of cyber-threat intelligence, the social media campaign involves multiple layers of deception, as attackers are creating fake identities with careers in the defense industry, journalism and government. While iSight Partners is officially ringing the warning bell on the Newscaster threat now, it is not an unknown threat […]

The Linux Foundation is making good on its promise to help prevent the next Heartbleed before it happens. On April 24, the Linux Foundation announced its Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) to fund open-source projects, and it is now providing details on which projects it will initially help to secure. The Heartbleed security flaw, disclosed April […]

From the ‘time to patch’ files: The open-source PHP programming language project has released the PHP 5.5.13 and 5.4.29 updates, each providing numerous bug fixes and both providing fixes for a pair of security vulnerabilities. The two security vulnerabilities are identified as: Bug #67327 (fileinfo: CDF infinite loop in nelements DoS). (CVE-2014-0238) Bug #67328 (fileinfo: […]