Sean Michael Kerner

The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is officially gaining a new supporter today, with the announcement that GoDaddy is now supporting the OpenStack Foundation. GoDaddy, one of the largest Web hosting providers in the world, offers shared hosting as well as virtual private server and domain registration services. In supporting the OpenStack Foundation, GoDaddy joins an […]

Once again, security researchers are pointing an accusing finger at small office/home office (SOHO) routers as being vulnerable to exploitation. This time the research group is Team Cymru, and the report claims that more than 300,000 devices have been infected. The infected devices are mostly in Europe and Asia and involve overwritten DNS settings. DNS […]

Databases are among the most often attacked pieces of enterprise computing technology as they are the places where the information that attackers want tends to be kept. It’s a situation that Josh Shaul, director of product management at Trustwave, is well aware of, which is why he spoke at length in a session at last […]

In a session titled “Buy Candy, Lose Your Credit Card—Investigating POS RAM Scraping Malware” late last month at the RSA Conference, Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos, detailed the current risk landscape for retail malware. In an interview with eWEEK, Wisniewski noted that when he submitted his topic to the RSA Conference in June […]

Hidden deep within the RSA conference, and in a timeslot that pitted it against vendor keynotes on the main stage, was a single session that for me, defined my RSA Conference experience this year. The session was a panel event titled “Watching the Watchers,” and it included a who’s who of government privacy leaders. Ari […]

While the spectacular collapse of Mt. Gox is an epic failure that will have a long-lasting impact on the Bitcoin marketplace, it doesn’t necessarily spell the end of Bitcoin itself. Remember Napster? Napster helped start the whole era of digital music downloads, though the initial model wasn’t right. Napster was illegal, letting users essentially steal […]

Microsoft is fixing 23 different vulnerabilities in the March Patch Tuesday update, spread across five security advisories. Of the 23 vulnerabilities, 18 of them are directly attributable to IE. One of the IE vulnerabilities fixed this month, was first publicly reported Feb. 13 and is formally known as CVE-2014-0322. That flaw has been exploited in […]

Art Gilliland, Hewlett-Packard’s senior vice president and general manager for enterprise security, is very knowledgeable about the world of security but knows he’s not immune from being a target, too. In an exclusive video interview with eWEEK at the RSA Conference here, Gilliland discussed HP’s security strategy and why there is no silver-bullet single-product approach […]

At IDC’s annual analyst breakfast meeting at the RSA conference last week, analysts discussed the mindset of IT executives toward security, which one analyst described as “My Eyes Glaze Over.” (Knowing how IT types love their acronyms, he referred to it as MEGO.) Chris Christiansen, program vice president for IDC‘s Security Products and Services group, […]

Michelle Dennedy, vice president, chief privacy officer at Intel Security, has a specific view on privacy and transparency. “Privacy is not synonymous with secrecy,” she said. In a technology context, she defined privacy as the fair and honest process of personal data. “You are not giving up your privacy when you choose to communicate with […]

In an interview with eWEEK at the RSA conference last week, Schneier detailed his views on the NSA’s surveillance activities. When it comes to domestic surveillance and metadata collection, Schneier firmly believes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the right agency to handle that data. He noted that the FBI already has domestic security […]

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey came to the RSA Conference here with a message: The FBI wants to work with the tech industry to make everyone safer. Cyber-security threats are at the top of the list of risks that face the United States, and the FBI is taking them very seriously, Comey said […]