Sean Michael Kerner

As the Black Hat conference descends upon Las Vegas this week, internetnews.com presents a series of articles addressing security issues past and present. LAS VEGAS — Some vendors see network address control technologies as the magic elixir to guaranteeing and promoting a self-defending network. Ofir Arkin, CTO of security research firm Insightix, thinks that he’s […]

As the Black Hat conference descends upon Las Vegas this week, internetnews.com presents a series of articles addressing security issues past and present. LAS VEGAS — Think cyber criminals are unorganized? Think again. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICC) is at the nexus of the fight on Internet crime. It’s at the receiving […]

A year and a half ago, Pervasive Software proudly proclaimed its enterprise support effort for the open source PostgreSQL database. The honeymoon is long over and so is Pervasive’s support for PostgreSQL. In an open letter to the PostgreSQL community, Pervasive President John Farr eulogized his company’s exit from the PostgreSQL enterprise support market. “While […]

More than 270 years ago, Carolus Linnaeus in his book Systema Naturae, attempted to categorize all biology on the Earth into a series of kingdoms. Web application security vendor Fortify thinks that the same kingdom approach can be taken to classify Web vulnerabilities. The approach is one that Fortify is now donating to the non-profit […]

Wind River is taking a page from its competitor’s playbook. The company is incorporating real-time patches into its latest Wind River Linux releases a la MontaVista Linux. Today, Wind River is releasing its fourth Linux release since 2004, with new 1.3 versions of the Wind River General Purpose Platform, Platform for Consumer Devices and Platform […]

The people who discover and exploit computer insecurities are at the root of those insecurities. They call them “black hats.” Sometimes, black hats hide in the crevices and under the rocks of the Internet fabric, and sometimes they come out into the open. And what better place than the sin of all cities: Las Vegas? […]

Google has long been a supporter of open source development and technologies. It’s now going a step further by offering the open source community a new home to develop, manage and host projects. The site could prove to be the biggest challenge yet for the current goliath of the open source project hosting world: SourceForge.net. […]

The second draft of the GPL version 3 license is not even a day old and already one of the largest Linux vendors in the world is taking issue with its content. “HP had hoped that the second draft would clarify the patent provision such as to ease concern that mere distribution of a single […]

The second draft release of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3 is out, including a softening on its terms about DRM (Digital Rights Management) and patents. Let the comments and controversy resume over the proposed changes to widely-used open source license. The latest draft release softened its stance from the prior by noting […]

JavaScript is the source of great power within the Mozilla Firefox browser. Unfortunately it may well also be the trigger for many of its flaws. Firefox 1.5.0.5 out today is the latest release of the open source browser and patches no fewer than seven critical flaws, with some form of JavaScript issue being at the […]

With the 4.5 release of its open source CRM package, SugarCRM is capitalizing on its growing popularity in the space, with downloads doubling from 400,000 to 800,000 in six months and a Microsoft partnership highlighting its growth. Sugar 4.5 is the eighth release since the company launched in April 2004 and comes six months after […]

Three years after flying away from its FreeBSD roots, DragonFly BSD continues to evolve. Version 1.6, out this week, fixes bugs, improves wireless and expands package compatibility. DragonFly BSD project leader Matthew Dillon created the project in 2003 as a fork of FreeBSD 4.x-based code, because he and other DragonFly BSD developers disagreed with the […]