Sean Michael Kerner

Internetnews.com editors provide an early roadmap for tech’s direction in 2007. Linux users have much to look forward to in 2007, beginning with the end of the SCO saga, which has raged on since 2003. The year will also mark the birth of a new GPL and a new flagship enterprise Linux distribution from the […]

For many in the world, it’s the time of year for wrapping up the old and moving ahead with the new. That’s not necessarily the case for Linux, though. For the Linux kernel, what’s old is new again with the new releases of the 2.6.16.37 and 2.4.34 kernels. The current Linux kernel, version 2.6.19, was […]

At one point or another, every technology user has experienced an application crash. In many cases trying to determine the exact cause of the crash can be as frustrating as the crash itself. Identifying the causality for crashes is a critical aspect of fixing the crash condition and making sure it doesn’t re-occur. That’s where […]

Internetnews.com wades through the top stories and issues that rocked the industry in 2006 in this ongoing series. The popularity of network access control (NAC) surged in 2006, with every vendor, big and small, boasting about their respective NAC or NAC-like solutions. NAC is intended to perform some kind of endpoint admission and control by […]

It has been seven weeks since Novell and Microsoft announced their interoperability and patent protection deal. This week the companies revealed the first fruits of that pact and with them the first big-name staff defection. Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and AIG Technologies will be receiving SUSE Linux Enterprise subscription certificates from Microsoft. As part of […]

Network security requires more than just a firewall. This is a fact not lost on networking security vendor SonicWall and its President and CEO Matt Medeiros. Since its creation in 1991, SonicWall has moved beyond firewalls to address the modern needs of remote access with SSL-VPNs, secure backups and content. Traditionally the company has positioned […]

Internetnews.com wades through the top stories and issues that rocked the industry in 2006 in this ongoing series. Just as the year in open source was cruising to a finish in 2006 — all gussied up in a neat bow for the year, November arrived with a splash to re-draw the whole map. That’s when […]

With more than 200,000 downloads in just over a year, the Zend Framework for writing Web applications in PHP has emerged as an enterprise challenger to Java and .NET. The PHP community hopes that trend continues this week with Zend Framework 0.6, a new version of the platform that features a number of improvements over […]

Mozilla today updated Firefox 2.0 for the first time, but the upgrade lacks at least one fix for a well known and already disclosed flaw in the open source browsers. In late November, a Password Manager flaw was reported in Firefox, leaving users at risk for having their log-in information misappropriated by malicious sites. The […]

Unix  security is getting better. Hewlett-Packard  just added some security upgrades to its own flavor of the operating system, the HP-UX 11i. The updates to HP-UX 11i version 2 include new encrypted volume and file system support for “data-at-rest,” which describes an embedded trusted computing chip for HP’s Integrity servers. The new encryption features in […]

Cisco has been in the VPN market for more than a decade, at first focusing on IPsec -based VPNs and, in more recent years, advancing SSL-VPN . Though VPNs are considered a mature technology, there is still room for innovation. Innovations for both large-scale VPN deployments and remote access are in the works at Cisco. […]

Google AdWords advertisers can rest easy this weekend, secure in the knowledge that Google has acted quickly to fix a potential cross-site scripting security vulnerability. Adwords is Google’s  principal source of revenue, allowing advertisers to buy pay-per-click or impression-based advertising on Google and content sites affiliated with Google. The vulnerability was an HTTP Response Splitting […]