Sean Michael Kerner

To get seven copies of a particular piece of content distributed online, typically it has required a network to have seven physical copies of the data. But what if you could have seven copies available while having less than two copies’ worth of data on the network? That’s been the promise of open source storage […]

The name “SourceForge” has been synonymous with development for years. Yet despite that association, CollabNet, the commercial vendor that owns the SourceForge Enterprise product line, is eliminating the SourceForge name from its product line-up. Starting today, the product formerly known as SourceForge Enterprise Edition is being renamed TeamForge. The new TeamForge 5.2 release includes new […]

From the ‘don’t use the web version‘ files: Over the weekend, Twitter became the victim of a cross site scripting attack based worm that spread spam tweets. According to Twitter, nearly 200 accounts were compromised and some 10,000 messages in total were pegged as being worm spam generated. “Earlier today we were informed of a […]

From the ‘aren’t we done yet with Conficker?‘ files: Yesterday I wrote about the latest variant of Conficker . Additional details on the new variant have emerged that indicate that the worm is now using its infected hosts to send spam email. The new Conficker worm (also known as Kido) downloaded scareware – a fake […]

From the ‘it’s not just for servers‘ files: PC-BSD the desktop distro version of FreeBSD, is now out with its 7.1 ‘Galileo’ release. It’s one of the most exciting releases of PC-BSD since 2006 when I first started writing (and using) PC-BSD. The new release is built from FreeBSD 7.2 which just hit beta last […]

Web browsing is supposed to just be a point-and-click exercise, but there are times when a user has a question or encounters a problem with their browser and needs help. For the millions of users around the globe using Mozilla’s Firefox, that’s where SUpport Mozilla (SUMO) aims to come in, with a support forum and […]

Just like applications themselves are moving to the cloud, so too are the application security vendors. New versions of on-demand tools from Fortify Software and Cenzic debuted this week. The new solution enables enterprises to find vulnerable code before it is put into production as well as by way of penetration testing methods. The new […]