Sean Michael Kerner

RHEL 7 is based on the Fedora 19 community Linux release and the Linux 3.10 kernel, both of which first debuted in July. Red Hat has been hardening the Fedora 19 base over the last several months to ensure enterprise-grade stability, Ron Pacheco, senior manager of Platform Product Management at Red Hat, told eWEEK. One […]

The Internet of Everything, sometime also simply referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) is the idea that every device whether it’s a toaster, consumer electronics or a computer is going to be connected to the Internet. The new AllSeen Alliance effort, which is a Collaboration Project operated by the Linux Foundation, is an […]

In the middle of the 1990s, Netscape completely dominated the Web browser landscape and was used by nearly every human on the planet that wanted to explore the Internet. But by the end of the 1990’s, Netscape was a mere shadow of what it was a few years earlier. Netscape grew explosively because it provided […]

With Firefox 26, Mozilla has now restricted the ability of Java plug-ins to auto-load and automatically run. Other competitive Web browsers, including Apple’s Safari 7, already enable the same type of functionality. One of the primary differences between Firefox 26’s click-to-play implementation and Safari 7’s is that Firefox currently does not block Flash media content […]

At the top of Microsoft’s patch list is a TIFF image flaw that was not fully patched in the November Patch Tuesday update, even though it was known and being exploited. The MS13-096 advisory in the December update explains that “a remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that affected Windows components and other […]

The Internet of Things could herald a bold new era of pervasive connectivity and it could also be the harbinger of a coming zombie toaster apocalypse. One of the ways the Internet of Things could be secured is by way of the new Linux Foundation AllSeen Alliance project, which was announced on Tuesday. In a […]

From a server architecture perspective, the ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktop includes the HP Moonshot 1500 chassis with HP ProLiant m700 server cartridges. Guida said that the solution includes the Moonshot switches and uplink modules, as well as a Moonshot chassis management module. The other two new systems are the ConvergedSystem 300 and 700 boxes, […]

ZeroAccess has been active since at least 2011. Richard Boscovich, assistant general counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, told eSecurity Planet that while Microsoft has been aware of this threat for many years, it began seriously investigating the malware about four months ago. “During that time, Microsoft studied the malware in order to find vulnerabilities so […]

Mirage is a “library operating system,” which means that it can run on any target for which a suitable bootloader and drivers exist, Anil Madhavapeddy, project lead for the Mirage OS subproject effort within the Xen Project, explained to eWEEK. Xen is an open-source hypervisor technology project that became a Linux Foundation Collaboration project earlier […]

In a video interview with eWEEK, Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat, discusses what the future holds for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its upcoming RHEL 7 release. “RHEL 7 is going to be awesome,” Stevens said. The technologies that will be included in RHEL 7 are what Stevens defined as enablers for the […]

In an open letter publicly posted on a new Web domain, titled “Reform Government Surveillance,” AOL, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Yahoo have joined together to ask for changes to current laws and practices around surveillance. The tech vendors have outlined five key principles that they want to see reformed. They include placing new limits […]

Some of the biggest declines during the quarter were felt in the Unix server space, which has now hit all-time lows. According to IDC, Unix server revenues for 3Q13 fell to $1.3 billion, for a 31.3 percent year-over-year decline. IDC also saw softness in Microsoft’s Windows Server, with revenue of $6.1 billion, down by 1.3 […]