Sean Michael Kerner

Bitcoin’s true value today can be found in what it says about the state of money and payment in the modern connected world, said David Furlonger, vice president and Fellow at research firm Gartner. “Bitcoin is a massively overhyped piece of noise in the marketplace in and of itself,” Furlonger told eWEEK. “That said, it […]

The basic idea behind any open-source project is that the code is open and available to all, with the opportunity for lots of people to contribute and collaborate. When it comes to actually getting input and contributions to a project, the voice of the user can sometimes be drowned out as vendors and code contributors […]

Last week, security startup Skyfence emerged from stealth with technology—its Cloud Application Gateway—that leverages user behavior as a key tool for cloud security. “What’s really unique about Skyfence are our threat prevention capabilities around cyber-intrusion,” said Ofer Hendler, CEO and co-founder of Skyfence, which to date has raised $3.2 million in funding and is currently […]

Software development vendor Sonatype is tacking this issue with its updated component lifecycle management (CLM) 1.8 release. The basic idea behind CLM is to make sure that the components used in application development and deployment are up to date, which helps limit the risk of exploitation from known and already-patched software defects. With its CLM […]

For the fourth quarter of 2013, Juniper reported revenue of $1.27 billion for a 12 percent year-over-year gain. For the full year, Juniper’s revenue came in at $4.67 billion, a 7 percent year-over-year improvement. Looking forward to the first quarter of 2014, Juniper provided guidance for revenues to range from $1.12 billion to $1.16 billion. […]

The open-source MariaDB database has emerged in recent years to be a real competitor to MySQL from which it was forked. Now at long last there is a generally available version of MariaDB Enterprise edition. Support firm SkySQL first started providing services and support for MySQL and MariaDB back in October of 2010. SkySQL expanded […]

The idea of an “air gap” security attack, in which the gap of air between a pair of devices can be used to transmit a sound that controls a device, sounds like something out of science fiction. Yet this past week consulting firm Include Security publicly demonstrated a potential air gap attack at the SchmooCon […]

The gist of the story is that “123456” is now the most commonly used weak password—surpassing the use of the word “password.” Although that story is good for a laugh or two, the password “123456” isn’t the problem at all, in my view. In fact, I can use that password as securely or as insecurely […]

Millions of open-source WordPress administrators around the world were greeted with emails last week, telling them that their WordPress installations were automatically updated. “Howdy! Your site at [http://sitename.com] has been updated automatically to WordPress 3.8.1.,” is the automated message sent from WordPress installations that many administrators received. “No further action is needed on your part.” […]

IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers portfolios are all being sold to Lenovo for the tidy sum of $2.3 Billion. Financial terms of the deal have Lenovo paying IBM approximately $2 billion in cash with the remaining $300 million in Lenovo stock. […]

Cisco first announced the Nexus data center switching portfolio back in 2008 and has grown it steadily in terms of new platforms and usage ever since. Shashi Kiran, senior director of data center, cloud and open networking at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet that Cisco now has over 55,000 NX-OS (Nexus Operating System) customers. Now Cisco […]

Shape Security first hinted at its efforts in January of 2013, when the company announced a $20 million round of funding. Company co-founder Sumit Agarwal, who was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Obama administration in 2010 and served for 14 years in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, told eWEEK that Shape Security’s […]