Sean Michael Kerner

Our phish-catchers are better. That’s the word from the folks behind Mozilla’s Firefox 2 browser. They claim it is better at detecting phishing scam sites than the anti-phishing check in Microsoft’s latest Internet Explorer 7. They also clearly have an issue with a recent third party study by 3Sharp. It said security features in Microsoft’s […]

It has been nearly a year since AOL launched its next generation Triton AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) client. In that time, however, AOL never actually advertised to its AIM 5.9 users directly in their AIM client that an upgrade was available. Instead, users had to go to AOL.com to get Triton. That situation changes today […]

Cisco  is expanding its Metro Ethernet initiatives, acquiring privately-held Greenfield Networks for an undisclosed sum. Greenfield Networks makes Ethernet switches tailored for Metro Ethernet packet processing. Metro Ethernet employs Ethernet standardsfor Municipal Area Network (MAN) or Metro deployments. The Greenfield Networks technology and the Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s 60 employees will be tucked into Cisco’s Ethernet […]

Samba developers aren’t happy with Novell  about its deal with Microsoft on Linux, with good reason. Samba has long been the subject of dispute between the open source community and Microsoft, with Microsoft implying that Samba in some way infringes its intellectual property. Samba  is a critical component on most Linux distributions. It enables file […]

Juniper Networks believes that open standards are the key to network access control (NAC) adoption. To that end, the networking giant today is officially rolling out its Unified Access Control (UAC) 2.0 solution which was first previewed in September at Interop NYC. UAC 2.0 builds on Juniper’s UAC 1.x offering, which includes Juniper Infranet controllers, […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 web browser has been generally available for nearly three weeks now. Yet despite its availability and the fact that it was available in beta and release candidates for testing for an even longer period of time, IE 7 may well be presenting barrier to remote access via SSL-VPNs (Virtual Private Network). […]

Unauthorized applications running within the enterprise are spreading, and at an alarming rate. Security vendor Facetime calls them “Greynets.” According to its latest survey on the use of unsanctioned applications, over the past year the number of organizations that have eight or more greynets in active use by end-users has doubled, to 41 percent from […]

One of the hottest trends in networking this year is the full scale emergence of Network Access Control, more commonly referred to by its acronym NAC. Though Cisco originally coined the term NAC, nearly every networking vendor claims to have some type of NAC solution today. Microsoft is also working on a NAC solution called […]

When Novell shipped Mono 1.1.10 nearly a year ago, the release notes indicated that version 1.2 would ship in April of this year. Fast forward six months and Mono 1.2 is now finally available, offering the promise of increased compatibility with .NET 2.0 and its applications. Mono 1.2 is the first version of Mono to […]

This may sound like a counter-intuitive argument, since Microsoft is the current leader in the browser market (at least in terms of users). That said, in my view, the company is the underdog in this current browser war — just like it was once upon a time. In the first browser war back in the […]

Mozilla has updated its now legacy 1.5.x Firefox browser to version 1.5.0.8, with fixes for three critical security flaws. The flaws do not affect the recently released Firefox 2.0 version. The latest 1.5.0.8 release will also include an update that will make it easier for existing users to get major upgrades from Mozilla. Among the […]

Even IBM admits it didn’t expect its Eclipse open source project for building enterprise Java tools would grow as fast as it did. But five years after 10 curious developers downloaded projects from the Eclipse.org platform that IBM financed with $40 million worth of its own code, the integrated development environment  platform counts about 150 […]