Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco this week released its annual Visual Networking Index for mobile data, and in the period covering 2013 to 2018 the expectation is for an 11x increase in mobile traffic. The Combined Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for mobile traffic will grow by 61 percent between 2013 and 2018 – up to a staggering 190 Exabytes […]

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, Adobe issued an out-of-band security update to fix a zero-day flaw in its Adobe Flash player running on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Adobe warned in its advisory that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. According to the advisory, the vulnerability could potentially enable an attacker to take […]

During a panel session at the OpenDaylight Summit this week, Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), explained that his organization tries to standardize as little as possible. The ONF is the leading organization behind the OpenFlow protocol standard. Guru Paralukar, executive director at the Open Networking Research Center (ONRC) and one of […]

Neela Jacques, who became executive director of the OpenDaylight Project in November of 2013, officially announced the availability of the Hydrogen release in his opening keynote at the OpenDaylight summit this week. Jacques told Enterprise Networking Planet that the OpenDaylight Project has grown significantly since its start in April of 2013. The effort started off with […]

There are 13 security advisories attached to the Firefox 27 release, four of them ranked as being critical. As is common in nearly all Firefox release updates, one of the critical updates is for a group of vulnerabilities that Mozilla labels “Miscellaneous memory safety hazards.” There is also a critical fix for a use-after-free memory […]

The Mageia Linux distribution was updated to version 4.0 on Feb. 1 and provides users with improved performance and new features. From a historical perspective, Mageia is a Linux distribution that was born back in 2010 as a fork of the Mandriva Linux. Since then, the project has developed its own culture and its own […]

Firefox development occurs in multiple branches with the main release branch being the generally available release which is complemented with a beta and alpha (aurora) release branch. Leading edge development is relegated to the Nightly channel, which is where Australis has sat, until now. Mozilla is expected to uplift Australis into the Aurora channel for […]

HP’s research shows that 46 percent of mobile apps don’t use encryption properly, Jacob West, CTO of Enterprise Security Products at HP, said. “That’s a really shocking number because there is such attention being paid today on keeping mobile data safe,” West told eWEEK. Digging deeper into the problem makes the issue even more concerning. […]

The recent data breach at retailer Target—which left 70 million Americans and their personal information at risk—is receiving Congress’ attention this week in a number of hearings on data security. One of the participants in those hearings is Bob Russo, general manager of the Payment Council Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), which oversees the […]

Efforts to improve Bitcoin mining are now under way, working under the basic assumption that the cheaper you can mine Bitcoins, the more money you can make. Andreessen said that at his venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, he is seeing business pitches for Bitcoin-optimized data centers. The Bitcoin phenomenon is resulting in chip design innovation […]

The annual Pwn2own browser hacking competition has risen to mythical status over the years, with tall tales of security researchers exploiting browser technologies thought to be secure in minutes. For their efforts, research have been awarded cash and prized by the event’s sponsor, Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). HP has now released the rule […]

In a keynote at the Open Compute Summit last week, Ian Drew, CMO and Executive VP at ARM, detailed how ARM is now poised to invade the data center over the next five years. As part of ARM’s plan to be a real player in the data center, the group announced the new Server Base […]