Sean Michael Kerner

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team announced on April 25 that it worked together with GoDaddy to take down 15,000 subdomains that were engaged in scam-related affiliate marketing activities. The impacted GoDaddy subdomains were not regular customers doing unauthorized things. Rather, the GoDaddy domains were customer accounts that had been breached and then […]

Flashpoint announced on April 24 that it is updating its Business Risk Intelligence (BRI) platform with new capabilities designed to help organizations get more actionable value from threat intelligence data. Flashpoint is in the business of providing threat intelligence to organizations about potential risks from different threats and attackers. In the new Flashpoint platform update, […]

VMware announced version 1.4 of Enterprise PKS on April 23, bringing new functionality to help organizations operationalize the cloud-native Kubernetes container orchestration platform. PKS, which is an acronym for the Pivotal Container Service, is a joint product effort from VMware and its partner Pivotal, integrating Kubernetes with components from Pivotal as well as VMware. The […]

The FBI’s Internet Crime Center (IC3) released its annual Internet Crime Report on April 22, revealing a dramatic spike in the amount of financial losses incurred in 2018 from internet-enabled theft fraud and exploitation. The 28-page report is based on 351,937 complaints received by IC3 in 2018, which is a nominal increase over the 301,580 […]

As demand and adoption of the cloud continue to grow, there is corresponding growth in organizations spending more on technologies to secure cloud workloads, according to analyst firm Forrester.  Forrester’s Cloud Security Solutions Forecast 2018 to 2023 report estimates that by 2023 the global market for cloud security technologies will reach $12.7 billion, up from […]

Cross Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is among the most pervasive flaws on the web today. With an XSS flaw, an attacker is potentially able to inject a script on a site from another domain without authorization. According to Google engineers Lukas Weichselbaum and Michele Spagnuolo, XSS is a big issue for Google, […]

Mozilla is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, but that’s far from the only thing the open-source organization is working on. On April 18, Mozilla relaunched its open-source internet of things (IoT) platform Project Things as WebThings as the effort moves beyond its experimental phase. The IoT landscape represents a particular set of […]

Sometimes the full impact of a data security incident isn’t known when it is first disclosed. That’s the case with Facebook, which on March 21 first publicly admitted that it had inadvertently left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed—it is now revising the impact upward. While hundreds of millions of user passwords is already […]

In a video interview with eWEEK, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth outlines the growing importance of snaps in the Ubuntu 19.04 update. Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at eWEEK and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

Oracle released its latest quarterly Critical Patch Update on April 17, fixing 297 vulnerabilities spread across its software portfolio. The vulnerabilities patched in the update vary in severity, with 53 of the flaws getting a Common Vulnerabilities Scoring System (CVSS) score of 9.0 or more, denoting the most critical issues. Not all of the vulnerabilities […]