Sean Michael Kerner

“Pay up.” That’s the message that Novell is sending to SCO via the legal system in a recent legal filing. The company isn’t about to let SCO off the hook for the money it’s owed by the embattled Unix vendor. SCO filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors in mid September in an attempt to […]

Akamai is branching out from its Web-acceleration roots to accelerate any enterprise IP-based application delivered over the Internet, with its new IP Application Accelerator service. Willie Tejada, vice president of application performance solutions at Akamai, said content on the Internet has transcended from raw content, or brochure-ware, to application data. “Enterprises are under pressure to […]

Novell is continuing its push toward Linux with the release today of its Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2). OES 2 enables Novell’s NetWare users to run NetWare in a paravirtualized environment on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The OES 2 release is intended to help NetWare users migrate to Linux by providing them […]

Juniper Networks is updating its unified access control (UAC) technology in a new release that expands the capabilities and definition of what network access control is all about. Network access control (NAC) ensures network access is only granted to validated and properly secured endpoints. NAC as a security approach can do a lot more than […]

Microsoft yesterday removed the controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation requirement in the Internet Explorer 7 installation process, thus opening the experience to users of all versions of Windows — including pirated ones. “Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it […]

For almost two decades, security professionals have known a simple fact about operating systems and the applications that run on them. You can jam invalid data and string input into an application, and in some cases, that “garbage” will cause a system to crash, hang or enable a hacker to execute code. Today, that method […]

Novell today updated OpenSUSE to version 10.3, adding the latest and greatest the open source community has to offer. Perhaps just as importantly, it’s now also faster to get to all the latest and greatest, with what Novell claims is the shortest boot time yet for its community Linux distribution. The openSUSE 10.3 release includes […]

Apple’s latest QuickTime update aims to fix a flaw that’s persisted in the software for more than a year — despite efforts by the computer maker to address it throughout that time. The company now hopes to put that flaw to bed with its new QuickTime 7.2 update. The release repairs a command-injection issue in […]

At one point or another, every developer has looked at a piece of code and said aloud (or to themselves), “This is crap.” Until now, however, the definition of what actually constitutes bad code has not been an exact science with a proper formula or analytics. Thanks to the efforts of Alberto Savoia, founder and […]

The flow of money for open source and Linux-related vendors slowed up a bit in the third quarter compared to last year’s figures, according to The 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett. But the news isn’t all bad. Venture capital firms paid $77.8 million in the third quarter, which is 42 percent less than the $133 […]

Though on the verge of going private, communications technology giant 3Com this week continues working as usual, announcing three new products that round out its VoIP offerings for small and medium-sized businesses. The launch comes as 3Com wrangles with larger business moves. Last week, the company announced that it is going private in a deal […]

Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is all about making information technology more secure. Yet beyond just identifying security problems, CERT is also concerned with helping developers eliminate security problems before they occur — by encouraging them to code more securely. In a new joint effort with source code analysis vendor Fortify, CERT […]