Sean Michael Kerner

SAN FRANCISCO – Sometimes, the promises that vendors make on a show stage turn out to be empty. That’s not the case with Dell. In an afternoon keynote session at LinuxWorld, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler demonstrated the virtualization that he touted 18 months ago at LinuxWorld Boston. During his presentation Kettler showed a slide of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Though IBM sells and supports both Novell and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Big Blue is getting closer with Novell, at least on the middleware side. IBM announced today that WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) will be shipped and supported in Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). As part of the […]

“Interoperability” is a buzzword that means a lot of different things. Sometimes it refers to interoperability in heterogeneous operating system environments. In the case of the Open Solutions Alliance, it refers to interoperability across different open source applications. The OSA officially launched in February at the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit as a consortium tasked with […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The first rule of Fight Club is to not speak about Fight Club. That is unless of course you’re an open source vendor that, by definition, aims to make everything open and available. Open source networking vendor Untangle wants to talk about its Fight Club, an event, scheduled for LinuxWorld here this […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Taking advantage of the power of multiple CPUs is a common task in modern computing environments. Taking advantage of multiple graphics processors is not. It’s a situation that HP is aiming to rectify with the open sourcing of its Parallel Compositing Library today. The technology could have wide-ranging implications for compute-intensive visualization […]

LinuxWorld San Francisco is the annual love fest for Linux aficionados. This year’s iteration will attempt to share the love with virtualization and energy usage, as the show is being co-located with the Next-Generation Data Center (NGDC) conference. Instead of having nothing but Linux, the keynote lineup will also have a few speakers who are […]

Reporter’s Notebook: LAS VEGAS — Sometimes you don’t need high tech to circumvent high tech. At this year’s Black Hat security conference here, the usual array of high-tech methods were discussed to attack systems. There was also discussion of what I would consider to be a lot of low-tech ways to attack systems and security. […]

LAS VEGAS — When it comes to security, a lot of what matters might not be based on technology but rather what happens in people’s heads. In a keynote presentation here at Black Hat, noted Security pundit Bruce Schneier exposed the reality that clouds most security-related judgments and actions. In Schneier’s opinion, security is very […]

LAS VEGAS — The big iPhone hack has now been publicly presented. Too bad for the bad guys that Apple already patched the bug. Or have they? Charlie Miller, a researcher with Independent Security Evaluators, took the stage at Black Hat Thursday and explained in line-by-line detail how he exploited the iPhone and why the […]

LAS VEGAS — Mozilla doesn’t want to just make a better browser; it wants to make the Web a safer place for everyone. That’s the message that Mozilla Chief Security Officer Window Snyder and Mozilla project co-founder Mike Shaver delivered here today to a Black Hat crowd. The Mozilla staffers provided an overview of how […]

LAS VEGAS — Web Services are growing as the solution for creating a more connected and extensible enterprise, but its W3C XML security specification isn’t so secure. ISecpartners researcher Brad Hill spent about an hour at the Black Hat show here making his case against the WS-Security stack and how it could be compromised by […]

LAS VEGAS — Once again security researcher Joanna Rutkowska took the stage at Black Hat, and once again she set out to prove in glorious detail how to exploit and attack Microsoft Windows Vista. Rutkowska blew the lid off last year’s Black Hat event with her landmark presentation ahead of the official Vista release where […]