Sean Michael Kerner

Security research should not be a thankless task; it should be a task that is celebrated, rewarded and, more importantly, acted on with all the necessary expediency that a given piece of research might deserve. Read the full story at eWeek: Do You Want a Shirt With Your Vuln Report? Sean Michael Kerner is a […]

dobe is warning users about a massive breach of its systems that exposed both source code and user account information. Adobe Chief Security Officer Brad Arkin reported in an Adobe blog post that his company was breached with attackers gaining access to Adobe customer IDs. “We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain […]

The Vormetric-sponsored study was conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group and surveyed 700 IT security decision makers. Fifty-four percent of the survey respondents also indicated that it is now more difficult to protect against an insider threat than it was two years ago. There are several reasons for this, according to Kessler, among them being the […]

According to new revelations from data pilfered by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency has for years been going after users of Tor. The Tor onion router project is used by countless numbers of users around the world in a bid to protect their privacy and provide a degree of anonymity. According to new […]

“Realistically, people should avoid using IE if possible until the patch for this fix is released” Ken Pickering, director of engineering at CORE Security on IE 0day flaw (eWEEK) “At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems.”
 Adobe Chief Security Officer Brad Arkin (eSecurityPlanet) […]

In the security market, penetration testing is a time-honored practice that typically requires a lot of time to organize, schedule and manage. Security vendor Trustwave is now aiming to change the delivery model for penetration testing with a managed security testing service that is provisioned from the cloud, but still includes the use of human […]

The Silk Road site was hidden in the bowels of the Internet under the cloak of anonymity provided by the Tor onion router project, the shutdown spearheaded by the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not involve a technology breach of Tor. According to the FBI’s criminal complaint, Silk Road operated from January 2011 […]

A10 Networks announced this week that it has secured an $80 million equity investment from equity firm Summit Partners. A10 also secured a $35 million revolving credit facility by way of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets. Greg Straughn, A10’s CFO, told Enterprise Networking Planet that his company had previously […]

Two weeks ago, Microsoft first warned its users that it was investigating public reports about a zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. It’s a vulnerability that still has not been patched in a full update and is now actively being exploited by attackers. – Darien Kindlund, manager of threat intelligence for FireEye, […]

The building of programmable networks lies in the domain of Software Defined Networking, commonly referred to as SDN. In a keynote at the Interop NY conference Stephen Alexander, SVP and CTO at networking vendor Ciena said that he sees SDN as a tremendous tool in building the networks of the future. Ciena offers its own […]

The Chrome 30.0.1599.66 release, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, provides 50 security fixes. Google is paying security researchers a total of $19,000 in bug bounties for responsible disclosures about flaws that have been fixed in the new Chrome stable release. The biggest award is a $4,000 bounty to Atte Kettunen of the Oulu University […]

Cisco CEO John Chambers delivered a keynote address at the Interop NY conference this week, providing both a look back at networking’s history and a look forward to what’s to come. It’s about everything being connected to the Internet and everything being IP-enabled,” Chambers said. Going a step further, the future of networking isn’t just […]