Sean Michael Kerner

Sun Microsystems is going Ivy. The systems vendor is working with Dartmouth College’s Department of Computer Science to improve security in OpenSolaris. The Ivy League school is also developing an OpenSolaris based course as part of its computer science curriculum. Sun and Dartmouth College techies and teachers are expected to focus on Public Key Infrastructure […]

Hackers had a new target in their sights during 2005. According to the SANS 2005 Top 20 list of the most critical Internet security vulnerabilities, application programs are the thing of hackers’ dreams. In particular, the SANS report noted that backup applications are being increasingly targeted and now hold the No. 1 spot on the […]

Proof of Concept (PoC) code has now been publicly released for a flaw, which Secunia rated “extremely critical.” It is potentially leaving untold millions of Microsoft Internet Explorer users at risk. The Microsoft Internet Explorer JavaScript window() DoS vulnerability was originally reported at the end of May. The flaw could potentially allow a malicious remote […]

Since the dawn of the Internet era, e-mail has been the killer app. E-mail is still the most used Internet app, but search engine usage is rapidly gaining, according to new data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and comScore Media Metrix. According to Pew Internet & American Life data, 41 percent of […]

The latest version of the Asterisk open source IP-PBX, version 1.2, is now available. It has been just over a year since the release of Asterisk 1.0, and in that time a tremendous amount of work has gone into development by the open community that builds Asterisk. Digium Inc., the original creator and lead sponsor […]

The Mono project, an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, is now making it easier then ever for users to actually deploy code. The latest Mono, version 1.1.10, is out with a long list of new features and improvements including the new auto-hosting feature. “In the past if you deployed an ASP.net application you […]

Sure, it looks better, but does it improve how it facilitates open source projects? So far, the answer is yes from users and some members of the open source community about the revamped SourceForge.net open source project site. The home to over 100,000 listed projects has freshened up its look and improved usability as part […]

Sun is improving its Solaris OS with new support for the open source PostgreSQL database, Xen virtualization, GRUB boot loader and the Solaris ZettaByte File System (ZFS). The new features come as Sun is claiming that Solaris 10 has hit 3.3 million licenses and as a new update is expected to be released in December. […]

A storage startup hopes to make a name for itself by basing its solutions almost entirely on open source technologies. The company even chose a not-so-subtle name to get the point across: Open Source Storage, complete with the domain name opensourcestorage.com. Linux and other open source technologies are found in a broad range of enterprise […]

IBM is acquiring privately held application mapping software startup Collation. Financial terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed. Big Blue expects the buy to strengthen its IT service management portfolio by helping companies better manage their enterprise infrastructures. It will integrate Collation’s flagship product, Confignia, with Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database. Confignia 4.0 […]

The importance of Linux in the world of supercomputers is difficult to understate. Linux is the installed operating system on 72 percent of the supercomputers listed in the latest Top 500 (www.top500.org) tally of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Linux Networx, a manufacturer of (surprise surprise) Linux supercomputers is capitalizing on the trend with record sales […]

Once upon a time, developers who needed to access eBay’s application programming interfaces in order to connect to the auction giant’s selling platform had to pay. No more. As of today, Ebay will no longer charge for their use. “The reason we’re doing this is [because] we’ve been very successful in terms of acquiring developers […]