Sean Michael Kerner

The bleeding edge of Red Hat’s Linux efforts hits a major milestone today with the release of Fedora Core 5, which sports the latest in Linux desktop, server and system applications. It has been just over 9 months since Fedora Core 4 was released, and a lot of change and innovation has occurred in the […]

The second new Linux kernel release of the year is out with a myriad of changes to mark its sweet 16. Among changes in the 16th major release in the 2.6 kernel branch include Oracle’s OCFS2 cluster filesystem, support for the Cell processor and numerous fixes discovered by Coverity code analysis. The previous kernel was […]

Managing both hardware and software on Dell servers is about to get a whole lot easier, thanks to a bit of Novell Zen. Dell today is announcing Novell ZENworks 7 Linux Management –- Dell Edition, which offers the promise of being a comprehensive Linux systems management solution for Dell’s PowerEdge servers. Novell’s ZENworks is certainly […]

Apple has released a minor update to its recent security update, which was an update to an update that wasn’t entirely patched. Apple Security Update 2006-002 v1.1 fixes an issue introduced in Security Update 2006-002 v1.0 released earlier this week. 2006-002 was an update from 2006-001 released at the beginning of March. Among the core […]

Zombies aren’t just for horror flicks. There are hundreds of thousands of zombies on the Internet today, coupled into “botnets” that are harnessed by their malevolent overlords to wreak havoc. The havoc typically involves Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) type attacks but can also be used to scan other computers and steal personal information. Killing […]

With hundreds of millions of Macromedia Flash installations, Flash player is one of the most successful and ubiquitous plug-ins of all time. Many millions of those users may be at risk today if they don’t upgrade to the latest version. An Adobe/Macromedia Flash vulnerability has been reported that could potentially allow an attacker to execute […]

Every tech conference put on today is swimming in Wi-Fi signals. Some are meant to provide public Internet access to attendees, and some are meant to be private for exhibitors connecting to corporate networks. According to research conducted by Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, most of those Wi-Fi signals are wide open. Kaspersky conducted its […]

Apache Tomcat is now proclaiming stability for the 16th release in its 5.5.x series. Version 5.5.16 further strengthens the maturity of the platform as the march to the next major version begins. Tomcat is a widely deployed open source Java server technology considered “the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for […]

If you’re the unlucky victim of a new Trojan making the rounds, it’ll cost you $300 to get your data back from the Trojan’s author. As of press time the Trojan did not yet have a common CME identifier. It is currently known as cryzip by LURHQ, Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro. Kaspersky calls it […]

You can buy “it” or sell “it” on eBay, but if “it” is pirated Microsoft software, you should probably get yourself a lawyer. Microsoft is currently pursuing at least eight separate lawsuits against alleged software pirates who sold counterfeit Microsoft software on eBay. The alleged pirates are located in Hawaii, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nebraska, […]

Coming as no surprise to those who follow Linux distribution leader Red Hat, virtualization is going to be an important new component in the upcoming Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL) release. What might be a surprise, though, is the degree to which Red Hat is going to be integrating virtualization […]

March hasn’t been a particularly good month for Apple from a security standpoint. Mac users are now being treated to their second patch update in fewer than two weeks, and according to one security research firm, there are still unresolved issues. Apple Security Update 2006-002 fixes a number of issues not fixed in update 2006-001 […]