Sean Michael Kerner

Sometimes having only one box to handle both routing and security is better than two, or at least that’s the contention of Juniper Networks. Juniper Networks, which today is celebrating 10 years of existence, is adding a new member to its product family: an integrated secure services gateway appliance that combines enterprise-grade routing, WAN access, […]

In scientific terms, an eclipse is defined as an event that blocks the sun. For a number of years, the Eclipse IDE has in some respects “eclipsed” Sun Microsystems’ IDE, as well; that may no longer be the case. The Sun-supported NetBeans 5.0 is now publicly available, boasting a long list of new features and […]

Blackworm, KamaSutra, Grew, MyWife: call the slimy worm what you will. If you have it, you know it already as you’ve likely lost most of your content files. Security experts have been warning for over a week that the worm designated CME-24 and known by various other more colorful names was set to deliver its […]

The first new Mozilla Firefox point release of the year is now out addressing a number of bug and security issues. Overall, Danish security firm Secunia rates the aggregate of all the security issues “highly critical.” When you dig down into the actual security issues, though, there is only one that Mozilla, publicly at least, […]

Think the days of major virus outbreaks are a thing of the past? Think again. According to an analysis by Postini of 150 billion e-mail messages sent in 2005, e-mail-borne viruses represented 2.5 percent of all inbound e-mail messages. The reason for the increase is partially attributable to the Sober virus, which Postini reports was […]

Developers of all stripes can now leverage the infrastructure of Plaxo to add synchronized address book contacts to their sites and applications. As with most Web 2.0 approaches, Plaxo now has an open API. The new tools are intended to extend the footprint of Plaxo’s connected synchronized contact model. Plaxo is a service that enables […]

In the early days of the MP3 era, many users’ first player was Winamp. If you happen to be using Winamp today, you better upgrade now to prevent a hacker from stealing your tunes and possible a whole lot more. US-CERT has issued an advisory for Winamp related to a buffer overflow vulnerability that could […]

The days of ever cheaper domain names may well be numbered, thanks to a newly-revised agreement between ICANN and online security provider VeriSign . If ratified, the revised proposed agreement would end years of festering disagreement over domain names and related services between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign. If […]

For hundreds of millions of users worldwide, Microsoft’s little blue “e” is the Web. Today, after years of discussion and development, and in the face of its most notable challenge since its inception, a publicly available preview of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP is now available. IE 7 Beta 2 Preview includes a long […]

With all the media emphasis on Internet-related fraud and identity theft, one might think the Internet is a dangerous place for commerce. As it turns out, though the Internet certainly has its risks, incidents of fraud and identity theft from other more traditional means outnumber those online. If recent stats are to be trusted, incidents […]

IBM is set to announce tomorrow the addition of Rational Developer to its Rational software line. The new application provides code transformation and compliance for a critical Department of Defense framework, among other features. IBM Rational Systems Developer is an Eclipse-based product that is an integrated design and construction tool that enables software architects and […]

It happens all the time: employees transfer information outside of the enterprise that isn’t ever supposed to leave. Sometimes it’s e-mail, other times it’s via a blog and, on occasion, it’s just simply printed. How do you stop the data leaks? PortAuthority Technologies of Palo Alto, Calif., thinks it has the solution. The recently released […]