Sean Michael Kerner

It’s one thing to have a routing platform that can scale to high capacity — it’s quite another to actually have products that can actually deliver on the promise of that scale. Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) today is rolling out its highest-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) line card, sporting a total of sixteen 10 GbE ports […]

From the ‘It’s Not Over, Until It’s Over’ files: Bankrupt Unix vendor  SCO now has a new leg to stand on. A U.S Federal Appeals court judge has overturned part of a 2007 ruling which gave ownership of the Unix copyrights to Novell. The appeals judge upheld the monetary portion of the 2007 judgment which […]

From the ‘Whither Mozilla?‘ files: I’m calling this one early. WebKit is the winner of the mobile browsing war. WebKit the browsing engine behind Google Android (and Chrome), Apple Safari (and the iPhone) is soon to be the browsing engine behind RIM Blackberry devices. What’s left for Mozilla (and Windows)? Probably more than a few […]

From the ‘What’s All The Buzz About?‘ files: Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today officially launched a new open source messaging system called HornetQ.  The new effort has its roots in the JBoss Messaging platform, that has been around since at least 2006. In a blog post, Red Hat developer Tim Fox wrote that,” HornetQ is an […]

Source: Apple It’s not free, but Apple isn’t going to be charging its faithful all that much to upgrade to the new Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” release. Snow Leopard will officially go on sale this Friday with a cost of $9.95 for users who bought a Mac system in June or later. Other […]

From the ‘Eureka!‘ files: One of the things that always interests me about security disclosures is how the researcher actually found a particular vulnerability. Sometimes, security researchers are actively looking for flaws, other times the flaws are found by accident. In the recent case of a Facebook Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack the researcher wasn’t […]

Though the open source FreeBSD operating system has changed in many aspects over the last 16 years of its life, one item that has remained relatively static is its underlying network routing architecture. No more: It’s getting an overhaul with the upcoming FreeBSD 8.0 release. FreeBSD 8.0, due out next month, will include a new […]

From the ‘Busy Times For Adobe Security‘ files: Another day, another Adobe security update. US-CERT warned this morning that there is a security flaw in Adobe’s Flex 3.3 SDK and earlier versions. “This vulnerability may allow an attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting attack,” US-CERT warned. Adobe has a fix available now in the Flex […]

From the ‘32-bit Still Rules‘ files: A 64-bit version of the Google Chrome browser is now ready, but Windows users will still have some time to wait for their version. In a mailing list posting this week, Chrome developer Dean McNamee wrote that the Google v8 JavaScript team have working on a 64-bit port. There […]

As Facebook’s popularity continues to rise, it is becoming an increasingly attractive target for security researchers and vulnerability disclosures. Today, security researcher Ronen Zilberman publicly disclosed a new Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack vector that uses an HTML image tag to steal a Facebook user’s information. According to Zilberman’s disclosure, the user needs only to […]

From the ‘It’s About Time?!‘ files: Many Linux distributions offer their users a number of choices for their desktop GUI, with the default often being GNOME. For years, KDE has been the most selected choice by openSUSE users and now it’s going to be the default for the next release, openSUSE 11.2. This is fantastic […]