Sean Michael Kerner

In the modern connected world with nation-states attacking each other electronically, the next world war could well be World War C (Cyber). In fact, according to a former Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agent, the war could have already begun. Kenneth Geers is a senior global threat analyst at FireEye and had previously worked for […]

On Oct. 24, Google began to flag PHP.net as being a site hosting malware, i.e., potentially a watering hole. PHP.net is the community home for the open-source PHP programming language that powers hundreds of millions of Websites around the world (including this one). Initially, PHP.net administrators claimed that Google was wrong and that it was […]

Verisign reported its third quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Thursday, with revenue coming in at $244 million for a 9 percent year-over-year gain. Net income hit $81 million, up from the $78 million Verisign reported in the third quarter of 2012. Looking forward, Verisign provided full year fiscal 2013 guidance for revenue to range from […]

Most of the security components in the Mavericks release are not currently available in the most recent OS X 10.8 update, which provides a good reason for users of older OS X versions to update as soon as possible. The last OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion release prior to this week’s 10.9 Mavericks update is […]

“Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.”Linus Torvalds (linux.com) “You don’t raise $40 million unless you have a good valuation.” Gaurav Banga CEO Bromium (eWEEK)  “Security leaders have a real challenge meeting different expectations when they are communicating with the C-suite” David Jarvis, manager, IBM Center for Applied Insight and a co-author […]

For the fourth quarter, F5 reported $395.3 million in revenue, a 9 percent year-over-year gain. The vendor reported full year revenue at $1.48 billion, up 8 percent from fiscal 2012. F5’s $76.2 million in net income for the fourth quarter is an improvement over the company’s $68.2 million in 2012. The company reported $277.3 million […]

A new market sizing report from analyst firm 451 Research pegs the OpenStack market as being on track to generate $600 million in revenue in 2013, with more than $1 billion in revenue forecast by 2015. Service providers are a key group that can benefit from OpenStack. According to the 451 Research report, service providers […]

Polycom reported $336.5 million in revenue for the third quarter, up marginally from the $335.4 million reported in 2012. The vendor also reported a net loss of $24 million for the quarter, a sharp increase from the $14.8 million reported for the third quarter of 2012. Looking forward, Polycom provided guidance for fourth quarter 2013 […]

DB Networks was founded in 2009 and has raised $7 million in funding to date, Steve Hunt, president and chief operating officer of DB Networks, told eWEEK. This week, the company is officially launching its new core intrusion detection system (IDS), the IDS-6300 hardware appliance. The IDS-6300 is a continuous monitoring device for SQL injection […]

For the quarter, Juniper reported $1.186 billion in revenue, a 6 percent year-over-year gain, with $99 million in net income, $0.19 per share. Router product revenue totaled $609 million, an 18 percent year-over-year gain. Total switching product revenue came in at $148 million, up 1 percent year-over-year. Looking forward, Juniper provided fourth quarter guidance for […]

The UEK kernel is a way for Oracle to provide an updated set of capabilities in Linux beyond what Red Hat packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Oracle Linux is based on RHEL, but that doesn’t mean that it needs to be limited by it either. Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization […]

In a vote of confidence, investors are pumping $40 million in new funding into security startup Bromium. The company, which former Citrix XenSource executives founded, is all about leveraging virtualization technology to enable more secure operating system environments. Since its founding in 2011, Bromium has raised a total of $75 million. In 2012, when the […]