Sean Michael Kerner

The Internet Bug Bounty covers approximately a dozen open source projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet, including PHP, perl, Python, Ruby, OpenSSH and others. Such projects typically don’t have the resources to run their own bug bounty programs, Rice said. Security researchers participating in bug bounty programs are given a “bounty” […]

The first proof-of-concept exploit code for Stagefright is now publicly accessible. Stagefright is a vulnerability in the Android Stagefright media library, which is used to process content, including Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) content. The Stagefright media library is found in Android versions 2.2 and higher, and when Drake first discovered the flaw, hundreds of millions […]

Art Gilliland is well-known in the security industry, having spent time in leadership roles at Symantec and most recently as the senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Security at Hewlett-Packard. Today, security startup Skyport announced that Gilliland is the company’s new CEO, helping to push the company forward to the next level. Gilliland […]

Dell sponsored the July survey of 460 IT professionals and 301 full-time business users. One top-line result: A whopping 92 percent of business users feel that additional security measures negatively impact their ability to get work done. Bill Evans, senior director of Product Marketing at Dell Software, told eSecurity Planet that workers view requirements such […]

Verizon announced that it is offering Cisco’s IWAN Intelligent WAN solution as a managed SD-WAN service. Shawn Hakl, vice president, enterprise networking and innovation at Verizon, told Enterprise Networking Planet that Verizon has seen significant customer demand during the pre-launch positioning of the technology with key clients. Hakl anticipates that the new SD-WAN service will […]

When Jim Zemlin helped to start the Linux Foundation back in 2007, it was an organization with a singular purpose: to help grow and enable the Linux ecosystem. Now in 2015, the Linux Foundation is more than just Linux, and has helped to enable multiple open source foundations and efforts, including the Cloud Foundry Foundation, […]

The flaw that Check Point discovered is that an attacker could potentially send a WhatsApp Web user a vCard that includes malicious code. A vCard is an industry-standard format for business card information. According to Check Point, the unpatched WhatsApp Web interface enabled the malicious vCard to open on the user’s device as an executable, […]

In new firmware updates, Seagate is patching for three vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-2874, CVE-2015-2875 and CVE-2015-2876). Researchers from Tangible Security reported the vulnerabilities on March 28 to Seagate, which patched them on Sept. 1. According to Tangible Security, the flaws have been present in Seagate’s devices since October 2014. Among the flaws that Seagate is patching is […]

From the ‘stick a fork in it’ files: Sometimes, open-source code is forked and it never returns. Case in point is LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as well Jenkins and Hudson. In those cased the projects were forked because developers didn’t like the way thing were going and the forks have (arguably) gone on to become vastly […]

SEATTLE – Docker is often though off as a server technology, but don’t tell that to Jessie Frazelle. Frazelle works for Docker Inc helping to maintain the open-source Docker project and she uses Docker – everywhere she can. In a session at Linuxcon/ContainerCon here, Frazelle said simply she a person that likes to containerize fun […]

SEATTLE – As part of the kickoff for the Linuxcon Containercon conference here there was An Evening with Containers on August 16. Seven speakers in total each delivered 5 minute lightning talks about different topics related to containers. Not one of the seven speakers was from Docker Inc and not one talked specifically about the […]

From the ‘haven’t we heard this story before’ files: More than a decade ago, Microsoft settled a $750 million legal settlement with AOL Time Warner over browser choice. That was in 2003 and was about Netscape (remember them?) the issue then was about choice and now in 2015 Microsoft is up to the same tricks […]