Sean Michael Kerner

Modern enterprises today face many security risks, and getting a grasp on the big picture isn’t always easy. Hewlett-Packard is now aiming to help make it easier for organizations to understand their security risks with the new HP Security Metrics Service. Richard Archdeacon, chief technologist, HP Enterprise Security Services, explained to eWEEK that HP has […]

The interface overhaul has been developed under the code name “Australis” and has been available in testing branches of Firefox since August of 2013. Firefox 29 with the Australis interface has been in beta development since March 20. The new user interface provides new customization options that enable users to more easily modify Firefox for […]

AOL admitted on April 28 that its network and systems were recently breached though it has not publicly disclosed a timeline on when the breach occurred or how long its systems were at risk. “AOL’s investigation is still under way; however, we have determined that there was unauthorized access to information regarding a significant number […]

Adobe came out with an emergency update for its Flash Player software on April 28, fixing a critical vulnerability that is already being exploited by attackers. The vulnerability is technically identified as CVE-2014-0515 and is a buffer overflow condition. “Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2014-0515 exists in the wild, and is […]

The impact of CVE-2014-1776 is widespread in that IE versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are all at risk from the remote code execution vulnerability. “The vulnerability exists in the way that Internet Explorer accesses an object in memory that has been deleted or has not been properly allocated,” Microsoft warns in its […]

Open-source Firefox browser vendor Mozilla is looking to improve security with a new certificate validation library set to debut in Firefox 31 later this year. Certificates are widely used on the Internet today for Secure Socket Layers (SSL) encryption as a way to secure data in motion. Since its inception, Firefox has used technology known […]

In late 2013, Douglas Murray joined the company as its new CEO and has been helping to set direction and accelerate commercial adoption ever since. In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Murray explained the current and future direction for Big Switch Networks and the evolving SDN landscape. Part of the direction involves an […]

“Sometimes it takes a crisis to do the right thing” -Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told (eWEEK). “ARIN may experience situations where it can no longer fulfill qualifying IPv4 requests due to a lack of inventory of the desired block size” -Leslie Nobile, director, Registration Services at ARIN (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet) “We are looking […]

Now in April of 2014, ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is announcing that it is down to the final /8 of available space in its own inventory. ARIN manages IP address space allocations for the U.S., Canada and Caribbean regions. ARIN is one of five global Regional Internet Registry (RIR) organizations that in turn […]

The Linux Foundation has assembled many of the world’s leading IT vendors together in a new effort to fund core infrastructure projects and help prevent another Heartbleed from ever happening again. Participants in the Core Infrastructure Initiative, led by the Linux Foundation, include VMware, Rackspace, NetApp, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Google, Fujitsu, Facebook, Dell, Amazon and […]

From the ‘Goodbye Brendan Eich’ files: For as long as I can remember, Brendan Eich was the CTO of Mozilla, then he got appointed CEO and well – things happened and now he’s left the building. In the meantime, there wasn’t (AFAIK) a CTO at Mozilla, but that changes today. Andreas Gal starts as Mozilla’s […]

To add further insult to injury for end users, FireEye found that apps that claim to scan for the Heartbleed flaw on Android, for the most part, don’t really work. Looking at 17 different apps that claim to scan for Heartbleed, FireEye found that 11 of them did not scan apps for the Heartbleed flaw. […]