Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Securing Education‘ files: DNSSEC is the smart, educated way to secure DNS right? Ever since security researcher Dan Kaminsky big DNS security disclosure in 2008, the need for DNSSEC, which provides integrity security for DNS information has been obvious. Yet relatively few top level domains (TLDs) have actually signed their zones for DNSSEC. […]

Two big forces in the world of VoIP are coming together in a new solution called Skype for Asterisk (SfA). The SfA solution, which entered general availability this week, combines the open source Asterisk VoIP PBX with the Skype VoIP network, providing benefits to both Skype and Asterisk users. SfA comes at critical time for […]

From the ‘Private/Public Cloud Hybrid‘ files: Red Hat today officially launched an ambitious new effort called Deltacloud to help abstract away the differences between public and private cloud deployments. Oh and it’s all open source too. “Today each infrastructure-as-a-service cloud presents a unique API that developers and ISVs need to write to in order to […]

From the ‘Portals R Us‘ files: Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today officially launched the GateIN portal project on its JBoss.org project site. GateIN melds JBoss Portal technologies with the eXo portal to create a new portal framework. Red Hat originally announced the partnership with eXo in June and the today’s availability of GateIN is the first […]

What are the barriers to making virtualization pervasive in the enterprise? That’s a question that Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is aiming to address with today’s release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 5.4 — the first deliverable in the company’s new enterprise virtualization effort that revolves around the open source KVM hypervisor. […]

From the ‘Birthday’ files: It was one year ago today that Google Chrome was officially launched. In that time, Google has removed the Beta tag and moved from a version 0.x to a 4.x dev version. Google has been putting out releases on the dev side fairly regularly (nearly one a week) since the browser’s […]

From the ‘Everyone Makes Mistakes‘ files: Google Gmail users were hit with a 100 minutes outage yesterday due to an upgrade issue. Ben Treynor, VP Engineering for Google Gmail blogged that,Google took some of the Gmail servers offline on Tuesday AM for routine upgrades. It was those upgrades that led to the service disruption. That’s […]

From the ‘As Promised‘ files: Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today announced the release of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the first release of the systems management tool built from the Spacewalk open source project. Spacewalk is an effort that Red Hat started last year at its Red Hat Summit in Boston and has been working on […]

In the summer of 2008, the Internet was rocked by the revelation that the Domain Name System (DNS), one of the core infrastructures of the Internet, was vulnerable to attack. The ultimate solution to the DNS vulnerability is a technology that has been available since at least 2004, called DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) . How […]

CEO Darl McBrideSource: SCO SCO is back. Two years after losing a summary judgment against Novell over who owns Unix copyrights, a U.S Federal Appeals court judge has changed the score. The appeals judge struck down the 2007 ruling that awarded Unix copyrights to Novell, so now SCO is free to pursue a new trial […]

From the “How Long Does It Take Linux Vendors To Patch?’ files: On August 14th, I wrote about a Linux NULL security flaw affecting all Linux vendors. Linux founder Linus Torvalds had a patch for the kernel the same day, but how long did it take the big enterprise vendors? You might be surprised. I […]