Sean Michael Kerner

Apple’s launch of its OS X 10.9 operating system, known as Mavericks, on Oct. 22 follows the company’s 10.8 Mountain Lion release in 2012 and is the first Apple Mac OS X version not named after a feline species. The Mavericks launch also breaks from its predecessors in that it is the first OS X […]

IBM is out with its second annual Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Assessment study this week, providing visibility into how enterprises are dealing with modern IT security challenges. David Jarvis, manager, IBM Center for Applied Insight and a co-author of the report, told eSecurity Planet that the need for strong strategy and policy in security, […]

VMware reported its third quarter fiscal 2013 results late Monday, with revenue coming in at $1.29 billion, representing growth of 14 percent year-over-year. Net Income was reported at $261 million, up from the $157 million reported for the third quarter of 2012. Looking forward, VMware provided fourth quarter fiscal 2013 guidance for fourth quarter revenue […]

The Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC) is now engaged in an education campaign to expand awareness of code signing. The CASC is an industry group that was launched in February 2013 and that includes the world’s leading Certificate Authorities (CAs). A CA is an organization that issues and manages security certificates that are used for […]

The new SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP applications is based on the SLES 11 Service Pack 3 update, which was released in July. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications is designed and built to run SAP applications, said Sabine Soellheim, senior solution marketing manager for SUSE. “Tight integration between the operating system […]

According to a new study sponsored by enterprise networking vendor Fortinet, younger employees exhibit a surprising disregard for corporate BYOD policies. The study surveyed 3,200 employees between the ages of 21 and 32: the so-called “Generation Y” demographic. More than half (51 percent) of the study’s respondents stated that they would bypass any BYOD policy […]

In an interesting interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes this past weekend, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that he was worried hackers could hack his heart. Cheney was implanted with a heart defibrillator device in 2007 to fix a number of ailments. Cheney’s Cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, ordered that the heart defibrillator’s wireless features […]

Mirantis is no stranger to the OpenStack market and has been a leading services vendor in the space since OpenStack first burst onto the cloud scene three years ago. As the line blurs between platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), the OpenStack services vendor is including Windows integration and Hadoop […]

A key new feature of the JBoss Portal 6.1 release is enhanced mobile capabilities. Now when users visit a portal site from a mobile device, they are automatically directed to the mobile version of the site. With JBoss Portal 6.1, Red Hat is adding a few key mobile configurations for administrators. There are now rules […]

A new study, sponsored by Raytheon and conducted by Zogby Analytics, shows surprisingly little interest from young adults in pursuing a career in cyber-security. Based on a survey in September of 1,000 adults in the U.S., from ages 18 to 26, the study found that only 24 percent of those polled expressed a desire to […]

Mark Baker, Ubuntu Server and Cloud Product Manager at Canonical, told ServerWatch that the Juju system gets a big boost in Ubuntu 13.10. Juju first debuted in 2010’s Ubuntu 11.10 release and is a server and cloud deployment orchestration technology. “Juju has ‘charms,’ which is where services are defined, and part of that definition details […]

Attack traffic now comes from every corner of the world, though some countries are responsible for more volume than others. According to Akamai’s second-quarter 2013 “State of the Internet” report, Indonesia is now the top origination source for attack traffic, based on IP address. Indonesia is responsible for 38 percent of attack traffic, followed in […]