Sean Michael Kerner

A crowdfunding effort to raise $32 million in 30 days fell short, but that’s doesn’t mean it’s the end for the Ubuntu Linux phone dream. On July 22, I was on a phone call with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux, talking about his audacious plan to raise $32 million to build a […]

The open-source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service is embracing the open-source OpenStack platform to provide infrastructure-as-a-service for its users. In the cloud world, there are applications that can be enabled with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering and then there are the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers on which the PaaS itself can be run. Read the full story at eWeek: […]

How much does it cost to patch 25 flaws in an open-source Web browser? Google is updating the stable version of its Chrome browser to version 29.0.1547.57 across the Windows, Mac and Linux operating system platforms. The new update includes at least 25 security fixes as well as an improved Omnibox search capability and a […]

How does Verizon put together its annual Data Breach Investigations Report? Part of that answer lies in VERIS, or Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing. Sitting behind Verizon’s annual Data Breach and Investigations report is the Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing, or VERIS, a framework for understanding and recording security breaches. One […]

If someone doesn’t play by the rules and still wins, should s/he be rewarded? That’s a question that the information security industry is now grappling with. Earlier this month, a security researcher defaced the Facebook wall belonging to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an attempt to convince the social networking giant that there was a security […]

The stable Linux 3.10 kernel received not one, but two updates in the span of less than seven hours on Aug. 20, after a small development mishap. The new updates provide additional driver and stability support for Linux 3.10, which was recently designated as a long-term supported kernel, which will be maintained for at least […]

Relying on more than one OS helps ensure the online availability and reliability of the Internet’s global DNS infrastructure, according to VeriSign. The open-source FreeBSD operating system is often in the shadow of its open-source cousin, Linux. FreeBSD is, however, a mature and stable operating system that is now quite literally at the very core […]

Earlier this month, a pair of private email services shut down over fears that they could not guarantee user privacy in the wake of the recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s domestic online surveillance activities. Now, that fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) has claimed another victim—the popular Groklaw, a Linux and open-source legal site. […]

A guiding light for the current set of Firefox releases in development is an effort known as Australis. The Australis overhaul will include new user interface components. eWEEK examines Firefox’s route to Australis. Read the full story at eWeek: Firefox 24: The Road to Australis Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow […]

VIDEO: Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of CloudFlare, talks about defending against a 100G-bps attack and what it takes to build a modern, scalable cloud platform. In March of this year, cyber-attackers launched the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the Internet ever reported. At the heart of efforts to blunt that attack was the […]

The open-source PHP language is one of the most widely deployed technologies on the Web today, powering millions of Websites (including eWEEK). This past week, two important updates were issued for PHP, providing both security and bug fixes. Like many things in the open-source world (and technology in general), there isn’t just one version of […]

NEWS ANALYSIS: Two incidents late last week illustrate what Facebook is doing right and what it is doing wrong to secure its hundreds of millions of users. Facebook is one of the world’s most popular social networking destinations and a favorite target for hackers and security researchers alike. Two incidents this past week demonstrate the […]