Sean Michael Kerner

The Pwnie Awards is a set of awards that are given out in different categories symbolizing the triumphs of security researchers and the failures of security product vendors or corporate IT security organizations. The actual award is the My Little Pony figure for children. This year, two categories were most interesting to me personally. The […]

LAS VEGAS—Every day millions of ads are displayed to tens of millions of users across the Web. According to a pair of WhiteHat Security researchers speaking at the Black Hat security conference here, those ads could be the gateway to enslaving your browser into a botnet army. There is little preventing an attacker from spending […]

Radio-frequency identification tags are widely deployed around the world and commonly used for building security system cards. As it turns out, those RFID security cards might not be all that secure. That is the conclusion of Francis Brown, managing partner at security firm Bishop Fox, who detailed his research on RFID hacking on July 31 […]

Juniper Networks this week announced its latest entrant into the ruggedized space: the LN2600 router. The LN2600 joins the existing LN1000 in Juniper’s ruggedized lineup. The LN2600 is a new platform for Juniper, but similar in some respect to an existing Juniper SRX appliance. “While the LN2600 leverages existing Juniper technologies and JUNOS, it is […]

IBM’s Power 750 server is getting a new Linux flavor. The PowerLinux 7R4 is a 4-socket, 32-core system that serves as the Linux version of the Power 750. he Power 750 servers are notable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that they are the system IBM’s Watson artificial […]

Mozilla is now advancing the state of its open source Minion security testing framework with a 0.3 release. “The idea of Minion is to provide highly accurate results in a single, easy to use tool so developers can make their applications more secure,”Michael Coates, Director of Security Assurance at Mozilla said. “Just as it is […]

One of the highlights for me in any given year that I’m at Black Hat, is seeing big name hackers do what they do best. This year, I’m going to miss seeing at least one of them. One of those big name hackers (for me) has been Charlie Miller, since at least 2007 when i […]

In the mythos of information security, this week is like no other. The Black Hat and DEF CON conferences again descend on Las Vegas, making us all more secure by exposing the insecurity of the world around us. As the general manager of Black Hat, Trey Ford sits at the summit of the epic event […]

At the core of Riverbed’s Steelhead WAN optimization platform sits the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS). The latest update to RiOS, version 8.5, provides new path selection capabilities and improved application visibility. Jess Leroy, VP of product management at Riverbed, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that the Path Selection feature enables an organization to optimize the […]

According to Sixth Annual State of the Network survey from Network Instruments, organizations are continuing their steady deployment of cloud. 38 percent of organizations have deployed private clouds, outpacing the public cloud’s 30 percent. More cloud growth appears imminent: 18 percent of the study’s respondents indicate plans to deploy private cloud in the next 12 […]

The home of the future is all about automation. Home owners will be able to automate thermostats, doors, alarms, cameras and other devices – and manage them all remotely. But what if home automation systems aren’t secure? It’s not a hypothetical situation. At the upcoming Black Hat security conference, researchers will discuss, in detail, multiple […]

Oracle is advancing the state of mobile Java with the new Java ME 3.3 release. The Java ME 3.3 release is part of Oracle’s evolution of its mobile Java platform that it re-ignited with the Java ME 3.2 release in late 2012. With Java ME 3.3, Oracle is now adding support for additional mobile architectures, […]