Sean Michael Kerner

When networking giant Cisco looks at the Internet of Things, what it sees is an opportunity. This week, Cisco officially launched its Internet of Things business unit in a bid to consolidate its efforts and fully capitalize on the opportunity. Guido Jouret, general manager of the Internet of Things Group at Cisco, explained to Enterprise […]

This week, the Washington Post published details on the NSA’s MUSCULAR program, which is able to intercept data from Google and Yahoo data centers. Is anyone really surprised? After so many disclosures on the boundless initiatives of the NSA to get data (all in a noble bid to protect the U.S. against terrorist attacks), there […]

Midokura General Manager Adam Johnson explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that his company has spent the last several months working closely with a select number of customers to determine what the pain points of network virtualization. Midokura discovered that users’ challenges primarily revolve around operations and troubleshooting. “We’ve taken that feedback and piped it back […]

Linux is one of the world’s leading operating systems powering much of the Internet and rapidly becoming a core mobile and embedded technology, as well. Helping to lead Linux forward is the Linux Foundation and its charismatic leader Jim Zemlin. Jim Zemlin has been the executive director of the Linux Foundation since the organization was […]

The annual Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM) aims to help give enterprise a yardstick to measure security posture. The fifth iteration of the model is now out and adds just a single new practice to what last year’s BSIMM advocated. Jacob West, CTO for enterprise security products at Hewlett-Packard, is a co-author of the […]

The new Cumulus Linux 2.0 release shares a lot in common with the prior Cumulus Linux 1.5 release. Aurelie Fonteny, product manager at Cumulus Networks, explained that Cumulus Linux 2.0 is based on the same core version of Debian Linux as the prior version. “We’re using the same 3.2.46 Linux kernel version as for our […]

The new QFX5100 Top-of-Rack switch includes the recently released Broadcom Trident 2 chipset. Dasgupta said that Juniper is also running an Intel Sandy Bridge chip alongside the Trident, providing a hardware abstraction layer for the new switch. The QFX5100 can run multiple versions of the Juniper JUNOS network operating system at the same time, enabling […]

The new threat, called HTTP Request Hijacking (HRH), could be responsible for redirecting mobile users to malicious Websites. The HRH flaw is particularly dangerous because countless numbers of existing mobile applications are already vulnerable, Skycure Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Yair Amit explained to eWEEK. The flaw involves a persistent caching feature in code running […]

Firefox 25 provides new features including enhanced Web audio capabilities and delivers at least 10 security updates for the open-source browser. Mozilla rates as critical five of the security updates for Firefox 25. All five of the issues relate to various memory corruption risks that could potentially enable an attacker to use system memory to […]

Calxeda is now updating its ARM linueup with the new ECX-2000 System on a Chip (SoC).  Steve Croce, Product Marketing Manager at Calxeda, told ServerWatch that the ECX-2000 is the successor to Calxeda’s ECX-1000 chip. Read the full story at ServerWatch: Calxeda Powers ARM Forward with ECX-2000 Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at […]

At the upcoming Black Hat Brazil event in November, researchers from security firm SensePost will debut an updated version of their distributed mobile tracking and analysis project, dubbed Snoopy. Glenn Wilkinson, lead security analyst at SensePost, explained to eWEEK that Snoopy is a distributed tracking, data interception and profiling framework. SensePost researchers first built Snoopy […]

A new version of the open-source WordPress content management and blogging platform, Version 3.7, has been officially released, providing users with improved stability and security. The impact of the new WordPress platform on the Web as a whole is nontrivial, as WordPress currently is the technology behind some 72 million Websites.