Sean Michael Kerner

In a brazen attack on August 27th against domain registrar Melbourne IT, host for NYtimes.com, Twitter, Huffington Post and other big names, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) was able to gain access to the DNS records for those sites. The SEA was then able to redirect traffic away from the legitimate sites to its own. […]

The prevailing wisdom is that longer, more complex passwords and passphrases are more difficult to crack and are more secure for users. While complex passwords and passphrases are still a better approach than simple words and short passwords, new technology out this week will now make it faster to crack longer, complex passwords. The oclHashcat-plus […]

Check Point Software Technologies is updating its Software Blade Architecture for network security services with the R77 release today. The R77 release provides new threat emulation capabilities that are intended to help limit the risk of zero-day exploits. The Software Blade Architecture is Check Point’s platform for delivering multiple “blades” of security capabilities, including firewall, […]

VMware and Linux vendor SUSE Linux have extended their partnership to the hybrid cloud. SUSE Linux announced Aug. 27 that its Linux distribution is available on the newly launched VMware vCloud Hybrid Service that just became generally available Aug. 26. “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server will be available in the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service catalog and […]

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told VMworld 2013 attendees that they are the champions of the new era of mobile cloud. In Gelsinger’s view, it is virtualization that is the technology that is positioned to build the right architecture for tomorrow and today. The VMware vision started with server virtualization, but it’s now a broader vision […]

VMware is introducing its NSX network virtualization solution, melding the best of VMware virtualization with Nicira capabilities. An open API enables broad support from networking industry partners for the new NSX platform “VMware had been working on technologies that were tied into vCenter for vSphere virtualization customers only and focused on Layer 4 through 7 […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit with a service interruption on Sunday, Aug. 25, that caused four hours of degraded service for customers of its US-EAST data center availability zone and knocked a number of virtual machine instances offline. The degraded service was the result of an issue with a single networking device that failed. […]

CloudForms is a technology that enables hybrid cloud management. Red Hat first began building the technology in May 2011, and it has evolved significantly since then. A key step in the evolution of CloudForms came earlier this year when Red Hat formally acquired management software vendor ManageIQ for $104 million, bolstering Red Hat’s cloud management […]

In our modern world, where we’re all hyper-sensitive to the relentless onslaught of cyber-attacks, any time a major site, service or piece of infrastructure stops working properly, the immediate speculation is that hackers are to blame. On the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 22, the NASDAQ exchange halted trading for nearly 4 hours. The exchange publicly […]

The new commercial Web server product bundles high availability and enterprise features on top of an open-source core. Nginx, the commercial vendor behind the open-source Nginx Web server, is growing its solution portfolio with the release of the Nnginx Plus Web server. Nginx Plus provides a bundled package that delivers additional enterprise capabilities to organizations, […]

Software Defined Networking (SDN) offers the promise of a more agile programmable networking infrastructure. According to a new study sponsored by Juniper Networks, however, while the U.S. Federal Government sees some potential benefits to SDN, few agencies have any plans whatsoever to adopt the technology. The study asked , “In approximately how many months, if […]

Leading provider of open-source support and tools is acquired by Rogue Wave Software. What does it means for enterprise software development and support? Privately held open-source services and support vendor OpenLogic is being acquired by software services development firm Rogue Wave Software. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, though OpenLogic CEO Steven […]