Sean Michael Kerner

Hewlett-Packard is now ramping up a new effort to sell its software online. The Pronq portal currently offers HP’s Fortify on Demand security service, Agile Manager, Vertica, Performance Anywhere and Service Anywhere solutions. “Pronk” is an actual word that is defined as jumping up into the air or moving forward by leaps and bounds, Caroline […]

Much of the ZeroAccess botnet’s access was shut down or restricted last as a result of a coordinated effort from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Europols European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), with the support of tech vendors Microsoft and A10 Networks. The ZeroAccess botnet has been wreaking havoc throughout much of 2013 and had […]

“Losing your wallet.dat file is like losing your actual wallet stuffed with cash—if it’s gone, you likely won’t see that money ever again.” -Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, talking about Bitcoin security (eWEEK) “There is a practical point to security, which is how easy it is to fix things, and on that […]

Flaws in existing software are the leading cause of internal IT security threats, according to a new study from Kaspersky Lab, which surveyed 2,895 IT professionals around the world. The software vulnerabilities are leading to multiple forms of exploits including data breaches. Alexander Erofeev, chief marketing officer at Kaspersky Lab, defines internal incidents as those […]

An old flaw is being actively exploited and is now threatening the new Internet of things (IoT) world. Security researchers at Symantec reported on a Linux worm on Nov. 27, and this week security researchers at Cisco have found their own evidence on the flaw that is now placing the IoT at risk. The flaw […]

Today Intel formally announced the successor to Crystal Forest, Highland Forest. Steve Price, GM of Intel’s Communications Infrastructure Division, explained that Highland Forest is built with Intel’s Xeon E5-2600 Ivy Bridge CPU combined with the new Coleto Creek chipset. Highland Forest delivers 20 cores of 2.4 GHz Ivy Bridge chips as part of the platform. […]

Horacio Zambrano, senior director, Product Management and Strategy at Juniper Networks, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet how Junos AppConnect will usher in a new era of per-app VPN functionality. “We think that the transition from a device-level VPN to a Layer 7 application-specific VPN is pretty transformative in the industry,” Zambrano said. Read the full story […]

Docker, an open source technology built on top Linux Containers (LXC), utilizes a host operating system on which containers reside and provide isolated units for applications. Docker operates in stark contrast to the traditional hypervisor model, where the hypervisor also sits on top of a host operating system, but each virtual machine also needs its […]

The addition of Valve Software to the Linux Foundation is an effort that began “a long time ago,” according to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “The news is part of the company’s strategy around open gaming, which it has just begun to share broadly,” Zemlin told eWEEK. “With Steam OS and Steam […]

The Sheep Marketplace, which was a deep Web location where goods of a dubious legal nature were bought and sold, was robbed of all of its users’ BTC and shut down operations on Nov. 21. In the non-digital world, if a thief physically robbed a bank of its paper money, law enforcement could potentially track […]

Polycom on Tuesday announced the appointment of Peter Leav as its new president and CEO. Leav previously worked at NCR, where he was Executive Vice President and President of Industry and Field Operations. “Peter’s strong background in operations, general management and sales, spanning a successful 20+ year career in communications, technology and services and his […]

Google officially announced late Monday that its Compute Engine is now Generally Available and ready for mission critical workloads. The Google Compute Engine was first launched as public beta by Google in June 2012. When Google first announced the Compute Engine in 2012, the platform only supported the Debian and CentOS Linux distributions. Now that […]