Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Soon…Very…Soon’ files: The next major release of the widely deployed open source WordPress blogging and content management system software is continuing to mature. The WordPress 3.9 beta 2 is now available, providing a long list of changes. The WordPress 3.8 release debuted back in December of 2013. Among the many new capabilities in […]

From the ‘Savanah/Sahara/It’s All Hadoop’ files: We’re now at the feature freeze point for the upcoming OpenStack Icehouse cloud release, but plans are now also starting to form for OpenStack Juno which is set for an October 2014 release. Running Big Data, and more specifically, a Hadoop cluster on top of OpenStack is something that […]

Late Friday, March 14, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held a press conference announcing that the U.S government is looking to give up oversight of the organization’s control of Web domains and the Domain Name System (DNS). While ICANN’s announcement is interesting, it’s actually not a new direction for either ICANN […]

Firefox 28 patches all four zero-day vulnerabilities that were disclosed during the Hewlett-Packard Pwn2Own event last week. HP awarded security researchers $50,000 each, for a total of $200,000, for the four zero-days that are now patched in Firefox 28. Johnathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox at Mozilla, told eWEEK that Mozilla implemented all of the […]

In a video interview with eWEEK, Akamai Chief Security Officer Andy Ellis, explains how the Prolexic technology is now enhancing the DDoS mitigation capabilities at Akamai. Ellis also provides insight into the current generation of DDoS attacks, which surprisingly are not all that different from the DDoS attacks of 20 years ago. Ellis explained that […]

Security vendor Trustwave is acquiring application security testing firm Cenzic in a deal announced today. Financial terms of the purchase are not being publicly disclosed, and existing Cenzic staff will become Trustwave employees. Cenzic’s technology includes application security and testing capabilities for the cloud as well as desktop and mobile testing technologies. Read the full […]

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, Software Development Manager at Oracle, and a Xen Project advisory board member, told ServerWatch that in the new Xen 4.4 release ARM support is no longer experimental and has matured significantly with major usability and performance improvements. “The hypercall ABI is stable and will be maintained for backward compatibility,” Wilk said. “This […]

At the RSA security conference at the end of February, I sat in on the annual IDC analyst security breakfast meeting. Since it was a security event, I figured it would be a great time to ask about SDN, given the intersection of SDN and security that many vendors like to talk about. The answer […]

The XR-620 is a two-radio 802.11ac access point that extends Xirrus’s existing 802.11ac portfolio, which includes the XR-630 first announced in October of 2013. “We sell both APs (two-radio fixed hardware) and Arrays (2-16 radio modular hardware), and the new XR-620 extends the AP solutions with a new low-cost 11ac option,” Bruce Miller, vice president […]

Cisco is one of the leading contributors and members of the OpenDaylight initiative, which is run as a Linux Foundation collaborative project. In fact, Cisco’s contribution to OpenDaylight ranks as the company’s largest open-source contribution ever. “OpenDaylight is the way that we participate with the industry in an open standards-based consortium to insure that together […]

According to Trustwave security researchers, that risk has now jumped to mobile devices with the risk that touchlogging software can log user actions on mobile devices. Neal Hindocha, Senior Security Consultant at Trustwave explained to eSecurityPlanet that on mobile devices the entire touchscreen replaces the traditional keyboard and mouse. As such the touch screen is […]

What I had suspected in January is that the Target breach was a failure of process and not a failure of technology or any new previously unknown risk. It’s a conclusion that Bloomberg Businessweek came to, as well. You see, the reality is that all modern IT payment infrastructure needs to comply with the Payment […]