Sean Michael Kerner

Uber at its core is not a taxi company, it’s a technology service and one of its primary assets is user information.  Uber recently closed a high impact flaw in its platform that could have potentially put that user information at risk. While the vulnerability itself is interesting, so too is the means and method […]

Members of the OpenStack Foundation have been voting on upcoming release names and the results are now in. The most recent OpenStack release was Mitaka, which debuted in April of this year and is set to be followed by Newton in October. The name for the first release of 2017 had previously been voted on […]

Dirk Hohndel has been a fixture for years at open-source conferences, always delivering wisdom. Since October 2001, Hohndel has been the Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel, prior to that he was the CTO of SUSE from 1995 until 2001. Now he’s headed to VMWare. VMware isn’t a company that is well known […]

I’ve seen a lot of strange things at technology conferences. I’ve seen all manner of flying objects, cars, sports stars and crazy contests – but i’ve never seen what I saw today at Red Hat Summit 2016 – a real wedding. At first, I thought it was a joke – a marketing ploy – but […]

SEATTLE – Docker announced a new beta effort for Docker container images at Dockercon today, called the Docker Store. Not to be confused with Docker Hub – or Registry – which already provide images of container apps, Store is something different, in that it’s all validated images and included both open-source and commercial tools. Docker […]

SEATTLE – Dockercon the primary conference for Docker container has a three year old tradition of appeasing the demo gods prior to any live demo – and Dockercon has lots of live demos. At Dockercon EU the gods were appeases with an offering of grapes – so any and all people doing demos ate a […]

Dockercon 16 kicks off with the opening of the show floor at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle today as those who love Docker, those who are curious about Docker, those looking to learn and those looking to profit from Docker assemble. This particular Dockercon will be a major event, larger than any other […]

I’ve had the good fortune to meet with Jeremiah Grossman, founder of WhiteHat Security many times over the last 15 or so years. More often than not those meetings occurred in the general vicinity of Caesar’s Palace around Black Hat, ahead of one talk or another, that Grossman was scheduled deliver on yet another innovative […]

Earlier this week, ownCloud Inc announced the formation of the ownCloud Foundation as an effort to keep the community together after the exit of founder Frank Karlitschek. At the time, I speculated that there was more to come as Karlitschek was not listed among the ownCloud Foundation’s supporters. The other shoe has now dropped and […]

The open-source ownCloud storage project has had a tumultuous 2016 so far, with the public exit of founder Frank Karlitschek from ownCloud Inc on April 27. Today in what really does feel like a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction, ownCloud Inc announced the formation of an ownCloud Foundation. Contrary to the common trend of bringing an open-source project […]

Though it seem like it was just yesterday that PHP 7 was first released (it was actually December 17, 2015), today the seventh incremental update is being released with PHP 7.0.7. As is the case with a .xy update, this is mostly a bug fix update, with at least 28 different issues being fixed in […]

The latest incremental update of the open-source Nginx web server is out today and once again, HTTP/2 related fixes/improvement are part of the mix. Looking through the release noted two HTTP/2 changes are noteworthy: *) Change: the “421 Misdirected Request” response now used when rejecting requests to a virtual server different from one negotiated during […]