Sean Michael Kerner

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) issued an alert stating that Veritas Backup Exec Software is being actively exploited. The Technical Cyber Security Alert comes a week after the first public disclosure of the Veritas vulnerability. The active exploitation of Veritas’ Backup Exec software is the result of a buffer […]

The world of open source cross-platform programming got a little bigger this week with the release of Qt 4, a popular application framework. The latest release has gone a step further into cross platform with the release of an open source version of its toolkit for Windows, which includes integration with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET. […]

SCO has officially launched OpenServer 6, its newest flagship Unix server formerly known as “Legend.” The new server comes as SCO’s legal battles with Novell, IBM and others in the Linux world continue unabated. At the heart of OpenServer 6, which was designed to bridge the gap between Unixware and Open Server, is the SCO-owned […]

Just days after the much-anticipated Linux 2.6.12 kernel was officially released, an update has been issued to fix two security vulnerabilities. Linux kernel developer Chris Wright announced the 2.6.12.1 security fix release late Wednesday. One of the issues carries the CVE designation CAN-2005-1761 and was titled, “ia64 ptrace + sigrestore_context” in the Changelog for 2.6.12.1. […]

Microsoft Internet Explorer isn’t the only browser hit by a spoofing flaw that could be exploited by phishers. But it also won’t be releasing a patch for it anytime soon. According to Secunia Research, IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Apple Safari have a similar “flaw” related to their use of JavaScript dialog boxes. “The problem […]

Seventeen years ago this month, David Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy Katz published their landmark research paper, A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), which helped establish the modern RAID industry. Nearly two decades later, RAID technology remains as vibrant as ever, and in fact, its best days may be yet to come. In […]

Remote teleworkers, the need for mobility, and expected cost savings are the key driving forces for the adoption of VoIP according to a new study from the UK. The study was conducted during April and May 2005 by analyst firm Ovum in conjunction with Imago Communications and its VoIP for Business conference. Telecommuting/ Teleworking was […]

The world of high-speed networking welcomed a new entrant this week in the form of an Ethernet-based technology called EtherFabric. The technology offers the promise of fast server interconnect speeds coupled with reduced CPU overhead. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Level 5 Networks claims that its EtherFabric technology will help reduce the cost of high-speed interconnect while improving […]

Sleepycat Software launched a new version of Berkeley DB Java Edition and is offering the catnip of performance and usability improvements with this release. The release comes ahead of the JavaOne conference slated to kick off next week. The new 2.0 version of Berkeley DB Java Edition boasts support for a number of J2EE standards, […]

E-commerce grew at a rapid clip during the first quarter, but so did security threats, according to new figures from VeriSign . The number of e-commerce transactions grew 31 percent over the same period last year, with the average transaction value increasing 4 percent from $144 to $150. VeriSign’s payment services, which it claims represent […]

UPDATED: The upcoming 2.6.12 release of the Linux kernel is expected to sport native support for virtualization and SELinux among its enhancements. It would also follow a public spat in the open source community over the use of a “non-free” development tool. For now, the latest incremental release, announced Sunday, stands at version 2.6.11.12. Kernel […]

Red Hat has just announced the new version of Fedora Core, a week after the company said it was creating the Fedora Foundation to run the project. Fedora Core 4 (FC4) promises the latest and greatest of the free and open source world, including GNOME 2.10 and KDE 3.4. In addition to a prerelease version […]