Sean Michael Kerner

Setting up the policies that define compute, storage, and networking access and performance represents a key control point in any cloud or enterprise IT deployment. The Congress project, which is currently being incubated within the open-source OpenStack cloud community, might one day be the answer to delivering an open policy engine for all IT. In […]

Helion is the new brand name for HP’s OpenStack efforts and includes a full OpenStack distribution that will have both community and commercial editions. Additionally, HP is building its own platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology, dubbed the Helion Developer Platform, that is based on the open-source Cloud Foundry platform. Rounding out HP’s Helion initiatives are professional services […]

What makes nPulse an attractive addition to FireEye is technology that enables customers to analyze data rapidly, Dave Merkel, FireEye CTO, told eWEEK. Merkel noted that FireEye’s platform started with the Multi-Vector Virtual Execution (MVX) technology to help find and identify attacks. FireEye gained incident response technology with the acquisition of Mandiant earlier this year. […]

OpenSSL, of course, is the source of the now infamous Heartbleed vulnerability, first disclosed on April 7. While Heartbleed has had a wide-ranging impact that has left hundreds of millions of users vulnerable, the newly patched issues are not quite as dramatic. One of the issues is identified as CVE-2010-5298 and was first publicly reported […]

On April 30, financial services market information vendor Bloomberg announced that it will be including Bitcoin pricing on its Bloomberg Professional service, which has more than 320,000 global subscribers. “Clients are increasingly interested in Bitcoin and other digital currencies and are looking for tools to better monitor developments in these markets,” Bloomberg stated in a […]

Yahoo, one of the first implementers of Do Not Track (DNT) has backed out of using the technology and DNT settings are no longer enabled on Yahoo. “As the first major tech company to implement ‘do not track,’ we’ve been at the heart of conversations surrounding how to develop the most user-friendly standard,” Yahoo stated […]

On May 2, my inbox was bombarded with claims and comments about the “next Heartbleed,” a security flaw in the pervasive OAuth and OpenID authentication protocols, dubbed “covert redirect.” The claims stemmed from a report published by Jin Wang, a Ph.D. student at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. OAuth and OpenID are widely deployed technologies […]

U.S. retail giant Target announced on May 5 that CEO Gregg Steinhafel is leaving his post, effective immediately. Steinhafel has been working at Target for 35 years and had been serving as the company’s CEO since 2008. Under Steinhafel’s watch, Target was the victim of a data breach that was first disclosed on Dec. 19, […]

Solaris is Oracle’s Unix operating system that it picked up through the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010. Oracle has been positioning Solaris as a cloud operating system since the initial Solaris 11 release in November 2011, but it is with Solaris 11.2 that the vision is truly fulfilled, thanks to OpenStack. Instead of […]

A new study published on April 30 by the Pew Research Center reveals that less than half of the Internet users who were aware of the Heartbleed took steps to protect themselves. The Heartbleed security flaw was first revealed on April 7 by the open-source OpenSSL project. OpenSSL is an open-source cryptographic library that provides […]

Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update on May 1 for a zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-1776, that was first publicly disclosed on April 26. The Internet Explorer flaw impacts versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Web browser with a remote code execution vulnerability. CVE-2014-1776 is particularly noteworthy in that it is […]

Inktank is the lead commercial vendor behind the open-source Ceph distributed storage filesystem created by Sage Weil, who is also the company’s CEO. The open-source Ceph project officially got under way in 2006 and became part of the mainline Linux 2.6.34 kernel in May of 2010. Weil founded Inktank in May of 2012 as a […]