Sean Michael Kerner

Typically, the Fedora project has had two releases in any given year: one in the early spring, the other early winter. For 2014, that likely won’t be the case. Fedora 20 was released on Dec. 17, 2013, and its successor won’t debut until August 2014. Another key change in the Fedora Linux world is the […]

Upscale retailer Neiman Marcus confirmed on Jan. 10 that it too was the victim of a data breach that saw customer credit card information stolen. Neiman Marcus has not disclosed how many customer credit cards were stolen or how the breach occurred. “The security of our customers’ information is always a priority, and we sincerely […]

Hedge fund manager Elliot Management is now bidding $19 a share to acquire Riverbed, valuing the company at approximately $3 billion. The key motivator for the Elliot bid is to increase shareholder value, which, in Elliott’s view, has been lagging. “Riverbed’s valuation has been impaired by slowing growth in its core WAN optimization market and […]

The Target data breach, which the U.S. retail giant first reported Dec. 9, is now significantly larger than first disclosed. In a public statement issued Jan. 10, Target revealed that the personal information of 70 million customers was stolen in the breach that occurred between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. Target had initially reported that […]

When gaming vendor Valve’s co-founder Gabe Newell told the Linuxcon USA conference audience last September that Linux is the future of gaming, he also hinted that his company’s future consoles would be Linux-powered. At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, Newell made good on his prediction with the formal unveiling of the first […]

Linux leader Red Hat is now partnering with the CentOS community Linux project. CentOS is a clone of Red Hat’s crown jewel, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform, and in some circles has been seen as a rival, providing a free alternative to Red Hat’s subscription pricing for RHEL. RHEL is an open-source platform, […]

John Chambers, the charismatic leader of the world’s largest networking vendor used his CES speaking slot last week to bring up multiple examples of how the the Internet of Things era will enable a very different world in the future. “It isn’t just about a connected car or a refrigerator,” Chambers said. “It’s the combination […]

The IEEE has now formally approved the 802.11ac -2013 update which boasts as much as 7 Gbps of data in the 5 GHz spectrum. The 802.11ac -2013 update is an addendum to the initial 802.11ac specification, which in 2013 began to emerge in both enterprise and consumer devices as the next generation of wireless, following […]

At the core of Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s keynote at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week was the announcement and demonstration of new silicon called Edison, which is based on Intel’s Quark effort that brings x86 computing down to the embedded computing form factor. The Edison is the size of a standard SD-flash […]

Security incident-response vendor Co3 Systems last week announced that security luminary Bruce Schneier is joining the firm as its new chief technology officer. Schneier had previously been working as the CTO of British Telecom (BT). Schneier is well-known and respected in security circles for his insight and knowledge of cryptography. In 2013, Schneier was among […]

In February 2011, Intel completed its $7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee. It’s a deal that brought the extensive technology assets as well as the trusted McAfee brand to Intel. Now nearly three years after the deal closed, Intel has decided that though the technology is strong, the McAfee brand itself should go away. […]

From the ‘No Security Fixes’ files: The open source PHP programming language is being updated this month with a pair of non-security updates. PHP 5.4.24 and PHP 5.5.8 are now both available of developers and server admins to fix a long list of bugs. For the PHP 5.4 first debuted in early 2012, marking a […]