Sean Michael Kerner

The Internet of things will connect all manner of devices, including household appliances, to the Internet. One thing that few vendors have talked about though is security for the Internet of things. At the SecTor security conference in Toronto this week, Ross Barrett, senior manager for Security Engineering at Rapid7, said that from where he […]

TORONTO—Automated teller machines are a common sight in modern society, and they’re also obvious targets for attackers looking to steal money. Researchers from security firm Trustwave discussed security issues related to ATMs at the SecTor security conference here, outlining their discoveries of ATM insecurity made during penetration-testing engagements. The flaws are widespread implementation issues that […]

This week at the SecTor security conference in Toronto, I heard G. Mark Hardy, founder and president of National Security Corp., give a keynote on the state of cyber-security in 2013. Aside from the requisite statistics that I’ve seen many times before, Hardy also provided an interesting metaphor for understanding the modern information security game. […]

The new Asterisk 12asterisk release out today is what the project refers to as a standard support release. “That means bug fixes for 1 year. After that one year, it will receive security patches only for an additional 1 year,” Matt Jordan, project lead of Digium’s Asterisk development team, told Enterprise Networking Planet. Digium is […]

TORONTO—People around the world are being targeted for exploitation with malicious remote admin tools (RATs) that are taking advantage of old, already patched Microsoft vulnerabilities. That’s the finding of researchers from the Citizen Lab based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, speaking at the SecTor security conference here this […]

RHEL 6.5 will also be the first release from Red Hat to support the Precision Timing Protocol (PTP). Ron Pacheco, senior manager, Platform Product Management at Red Hat, explained to ServerWatch that Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is important to customers who require sub-microsecond time stamping of transactions. He noted that customers in the Financial Services […]

Online cyber-crime affects nearly every enterprise on the planet. Its costs continue to rise every year without abatement. The “2013 Cost of Cyber-Crime Study,” conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, once again shows that despite the best efforts of industry and security vendors, cyber-crime costs enterprises more in 2013 than ever. The […]

Microsoft released its monthly Patch Tuesday security update, including fixes for a pair of critical zero-day flaws in the Internet Explorer Web browser. IE, however, isn’t the only critical area that Microsoft users need to be concerned about this month. “There will be one thought on IT teams’ minds today: ‘Where did this second IE […]

According to the 2013 Cost of Cyber-Crime Study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the annual cost of cyber-crime in the U.S. now stands at $11.56 million per organization. The 2013 figure is an increase of 26 percent from the $8.9 million Ponemon reported in 2012. As to why costs are rising, […]

Networking vendor Fortinet is taking the wraps off its most robust data center firewall platform yet. The new FortiGate-3700D boasts up to 160 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput. Powered by the NP6 ASIC, a new piece of silicon developed by Fortinet, the device includes four 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) QSFP+ and 28 x 10 […]

Mirantis is an OpenStack training and services vendor that has raised $20 million in funding to date as it ramps up its services and its products to meet the growing needs of OpenStack. Mirantis is a company that has played a leading role in some very prominent OpenStack deployments, including ones at PayPal and at […]

John Pescatore, director of the SANS Institute, a research an education organization, has seen security threats come and go across his 30 year career in the IT security market, which includes time spent as a Gartner analyst. The simple reality of cyber-security in 2013 is that software continues to have lots vulnerabilities, and people continue […]