Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘click here, tweet there‘ files: Can you Clickjack Twitter? Apparently you can. This week thanks to, Microsoft’s IE 8, a followup story I did about it and a blog post yesterday I had on another clickjacking issue – this is a type of attack that is top of mind for me.  With clickjacking, […]

Juniper Networks has some hard news for investors on Thursday, indicating that the market for networking equipment — previously seen as somewhat resistant to the downturn in IT spending — is also feeling the effects of the recession. Yet there’s still a reason for optimism: In spite of the current economic slowdown, demands on networks […]

A core element of good network policy is the ability to understand who users are and where they are going. Yet in businesses and schools everywhere, some users try to circumvent identification by using techniques that can, in some cases, anonymize their traffic. To combat the issue, a new generation of filtering technology is being […]

From the ‘view source and all will be revealed‘ files: Security researcher Aditya Sood posted a new clickjacking advisory early this morning affecting the Firefox 3.0.5  and Google Chrome web browsers. Sood did us all a favor though and posted a very clear Proof of Concept page (PoC)that clearly shows what’s going on. Just to […]

Clickjacking is a relatively new Web exploit that has gained some additional attention in recent days thanks to Microsoft’s IE8 browser. One of the features in the IE 8 Release Candidate 1 includes technology that is supposed to help prevent Clickjacking. The claim has one of the principal discovers of Clickjacking raising some questions over […]

From the ‘it’s your responsibility‘ files: Today is Data Privacy Day  which is an event that is supposed to help raise awareness and promote discussion. So here’s my discussion. The first step to data privacy is to take it seriously yourself.  While it’s critical that big web sites like Google and others do the right […]

Is the Linux desktop ready for mainstream users? The developers behind the latest KDE Linux desktop release would probably say yes, that it lives up to the promise of the first KDE 4.0 release a year ago. KDE 4.2 is the second major point release for the KDE 4.x desktop. Its codename, “The Answer,” also […]

From the ‘it’s a small world‘ files: Juniper Networks has named Lauren Flaherty as its new executive vice-president and Chief Marketing Officer. According to Juniper’s release on the appointment, Flaherty most recently served as CMO of Nortel Networks from 2006-2008. Yes that Nortel. The same one that just recently filed for bankruptcy protection. Nortel aside, […]

From the ‘awwwwwwwwwww that’s too bad‘ files: There aren’t too many Easter Eggs in Google Chrome, but one of the most well known ones is being removed in the new Chrome 2.0.159.0 dev-channel release. The about:internets (try it out on a pre-2.0.159.0 Chrome release) which has a cool snafu animation of the ‘tubes’ that make […]

For Cisco, it’s all about power. The networking vendor may be upping the power of its offerings in one regard — showing off new Nexus switching equipment with enhanced capabilities — but it’s simultaneously working to cut down on its products’ power in another way: their energy consumption. Starting today, the company said its Catalyst […]

From the ‘proprietary video codecs make me cry‘ files: Mozilla is throwing down the gauntlet in the battle for open video on the web with a $100,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation in support of the development of Ogg Theora. As opposed to Windows Media, QuickTime and other popular video formats, Ogg is based entirely […]

The thin line between networking hardware and application servers is getting even more blurry, thanks to HP’s latest move. HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) network equipment division is launching a new initiative called the HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (HP ProCurve ONE), which enables applications to run inside of a network blade. HP ProCurve has signed up […]