Sean Michael Kerner

TORONTO — Banking Trojans are perhaps the most malicious form of malware today, with the express purpose of taking your money directly from your bank account. Regardless of how much damage they may have done in the past, a new generation of banking Trojans is beginning to appear, and they’re game for even more pilfering, […]

Novell was on its way. At the company’s Brainshare event two years ago, then CEO Jack Messman took the stage and triumphantly declared that “Novell is back.” Turns out Messman was wrong. Messman and his CFO Joseph S. Tibbetts Jr. were ousted this morning from their positions at Novell. President Ronald W. Hovsepian is the […]

TORONTO — Search engines have become indispensable tools for hundreds of millions of people. Including hackers who are use them to find vulnerable networks, machines and services with relative ease. In a packed seminar at the Infosecurity Canada conference here, Nish Bhalla, a man who has literally helped write the book on hacking applications and […]

*UPDATED: You could say the Linux kernel is on the cusp of adulthood — like a teenager about to reach voting age. But in actuality, the kernel, now at version 2.6.17, has been at the heart of a rapid growth for the Linux open source operating system, from its early days helping to run less-important […]

TORONTO — Microsoft is well known for its efforts in fighting software piracy. Yet countless millions of PCs worldwide run Microsoft software that isn’t genuine and is in fact pirated. Should those users get the same protections that genuine Microsoft users get, for the better good of the Internet ecosystem as a whole? If one […]

Linux is an important platform for Oracle. It represents a respectable chunk of its business and it’s also a critical part of its development infrastructure. Oracle’s lucrative Linux business spans its product line including database and middleware. Almost half of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 shipments were on Linux in the first three months […]

After a few delays, Sun Microsystems  is now fully supporting the open source PostgreSQL database on its Solaris 10 operating system. The new support follows the June 6th update to Solaris 10, including improvements to networking, AMD chip support and a new file system. Sun originally announced support for PostgreSQL last November. Since then, Sun has […]

Linux is adding support for yet another architecture in its latest release of the 2.6.17 kernel. Sun’s “Niagara” processors are now supported in the mainline Linux kernel, though the additional architecture support is far from the only addition in the third new kernel point release of 2006. Sun’s UltraSPARC “Niagara” chips were first released to […]

Microsoft Excel users beware. According to US-CERT, an unpatched vulnerability may well put you and your precious spreadsheet data at risk. The zero day vulnerability affects Microsoft Excel 2003, Microsoft Excel XP (2002) and Microsoft Excel for Mac products. Using a maliciously designed Excel file, an attacker could potentially gain control of a users PC. […]

AOL expanded its America Online Instant Messenger (AIM) arsenal this week, adding new Open AIM tools and a new beta of AIM Pro service, Professional Edition (AIM Pro). Launched earlier this year to help grow the AIM developer community, the Open AIM initiative now provides software development kits (SDK)   that allow developers to build […]

UPDATED: Though many in the U.S. couldn’t care less about the 2006 FIFA World Cup, it is nonetheless the world’s most popular sporting event. That’s a fact not lost on global search behemoth Google or the open source Mozilla people either, for that matter. Mozilla has officially released a new browser extension for the Mozilla […]

Security software maker Entrust   is expanding its government security presence with the acquisition of Orion Security Solutions. Entrust agreed to buy Orion Security Solutions for $8 million in cash, with a potential of $1 million more if certain targets are met, for a total of $9 million. Orion Security Solutions makes public key infrastructure […]