Sean Michael Kerner

Twitter is now deploying a robust form of security, known as Forward Secrecy for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, in a bid to further secure its users. Forward Secrecy is not a new idea, though its widespread implementation has been lacking. SSL technology is the foundation for most Web security, providing encryption for data transport. […]

Jeff Forristal, also known by the alias Rain Forrest Puppy, was one of the first people to ever document SQL injection. Forristal, now the CTO of mobile security vendor Bluebox Security, wrote the first public discussion about it, back in 1998. In a video interview with eSecurity Planet, Forristal discusses how he chose his alias […]

Parth Shukla, information security analyst in the Operations Centre at the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCert), publicly discussed the previously unknown Internet Census findings this week at the Black Hat Regional Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In an interview with eWEEK, Shukla explained how he got hold of the details from the anonymous researcher […]

In a press briefing on Monday November 25th, Craig Williams, technical leader of Threat Research Analysis & Communications (TRAC) at Cisco, talked about three recent sets of attacks, all of which could have been prevented if the victims had properly followed a few simple Internet security best practices. One of the attacks, known as a […]

According to a new report from Pindrop Security, the volume of consumer complaints about phone fraud in the first six months of 2013 has already equaled the volume for all of 2012. According to the report, there were 2.3 million consumer complaints of phone fraud in the first half of 2013, which is the same […]

eWEEK 30: Unix remains a major server platform in enterprises and on the Internet three decades after PC Week started covering the computer industry. Back in 1984 during the early days of PC Week, Unix was not a new operating system, but it was an operating system that was just beginning to take root in […]

Last week, wireless networking vendor Xirrus announced its latest entrant into the space with the XR-2425H wireless array. The XR-2425H is an outdoor version of the company’s indoor XR-2425 wireless array and includes four 802.11n radios and eight integrated antennas. Inside the array is a Linux-based ArrayOS operating system which provides wireless features including security […]

Mozilla announced its 2012 earnings last week, reporting record revenue of $311 million. That figure is a far cry from where Mozilla started. In 1998, Netscape (remember them?) officially started the Mozilla open-source effort. By 2003, after AOL had acquired Netscape, Mozilla was spun out as its own entity, with some funding from AOL to […]

“Bold steps are needed now to protect our fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of opinion and association online.” – Sir Tim Berners Lee (Guardian) “This is a juicy target for criminals to go after”– Trustwave Managing Consultant Mike Park, talking about IOS point of sale terminals (eSecurity Planet) “We’re not focused on revenue. We’re focused […]

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, Red Hat is now beginning to provide limited support for the new Docker container technology. Containers are lightweight virtualization constructs that can be more efficient with memory and storage space than traditional virtualization hypervisor technologies. “Red Hat and Docker have jointly collaborated to ensure that Docker images can be […]

Networking vendor Riverbed is well known for its Steelhead WAN optimization solutions, but during the company’s analyst day event this week, executives stressed that Riverbed is much more. The company is now well positioned to tackle the emerging application performance infrastructure market. Riverbed CTO David Wu said during the event that WAN optimization technology has […]