Sean Michael Kerner

A non-profit security think tank called the Shmoo Group has announced the discovery of a flaw in Firefox and other recent browsers, including Mozilla, Safari, Opera and Camino, that leaves users open to a spoofing or phishing attack. Microsoft Internet Explorer is not affected. The Shmoo Group posted notice of the exploit on its site […]

Fibre Channel drives have long been known to be a critical yet relatively expensive piece of hardware. A new “plug and play” serial ATA (SATA) hard drive adapter from Sierra Logic announced Monday aims to change that. The Sierra Logic BR-2401 is a plug and play connector for SATA hard drives that allows them to […]

An unpublished study from code analysis firm Coverity indicates that open source database MySQL has relatively few defects in comparison to its commercial competition. Coverity analyzed MySQL 4.1.8 last month and found a total of 97 bugs among the open source database’s approximately 425,000 lines of code. The defects cross over nine different categories, including […]

UPDATED: Internet auction leader eBay has been on the hot seat lately, thanks in part to a lowered outlook for growth from its last earnings release and an unpopular fee increase for members. But Ebay’s North American president moved to cool things down in an open letter sent to members, in which he introduced a […]

Value added services are key to driving new revenues for broadband providers, according to a Jupiter Research report. Customers also show a willingness to pay for those services, the report added. Broadband use has been growing at a torrid pace for the past few years and is expected to continue so for at least five […]

Usually on the first Thursday of every month, they gather at up to 326 different points around the globe from Mumbai to Boston to discuss code and the programs that run on top of it. No, this isn’t a secret society you would read about in “The DaVinci Code.” It is actually a bunch of […]

Shipments of PDAs declined by 13 percent in 2004, according to IDC, the third successive year of negative growth for the PDA market. IDC’s “Worldwide Handheld QView” report showed that device shipments fell on a year-over-year basis by 18.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004. But on a sequential quarter-to-quarter basis between the third […]

As part of its strategy to expand its deployment in government, Red Hat today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Labs would be deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The move comes on the same day Red Hat announced that it was opening a new government business unit. The DoE deployment is a […]

Unisys is extending its embrace of Linux with Novell’s SUSE Linux division and open source advisory and support firm JBoss. Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 is now certified on the Unisys ES7000 server line and JBoss has signed a multi-year agreement for production level support. Unisys said the SLES 9 certification on the […]

Comment spam isn’t the only thing that bloggers need to worry about. Apparently a bug in a popular log file analysis program has been exploited by attackers, who were then able to deface a popular blog and other Web sites. Blogger Jeremy Zawodny reported on his blog late Tuesday that his primary server had been […]

For the fifth year in a row identity theft has topped the list of fraud-related complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency said Tuesday. The FTC’s report also said Internet auctions ranked as the top category for reported consumer fraud. In its annual report titled, “National and State Trends in Fraud and Identity […]

BVRP Software today announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire San Jose, Calif.-based V Communications (VCOM) in a deal that could be worth as much as $13.5 million. Under the terms of the deal, BVRP will pay VCOM $8.5 million in shares and cash, with an additional amount being contingent on targets […]