Sean Michael Kerner

IBM has made some big acquisitions over the years, but none have been larger than the $34 billion deal to acquire Linux and cloud technology vendor Red Hat. IBM and Red Hat announced the acquisition on Oct. 28 and held an investor call on Oct. 29 to discuss the deal. The acquisition is an all-cash deal […]

Hadoop administrators beware: There is a botnet that is actively looking for unsecured Hadoop systems. Security firm Radware first disclosed the DemonBot botnet in a report on Oct. 25, revealing that the botnet is taking specific aim at Hadoop systems. According to Radware’s analysis, there are more than 70 active exploit servers that are spreading DemonBot. […]

In recent years there has been an increasing need and trend for organizations to engage in an activity known as threat hunting. One key challenge, however, is that there is some confusion about what threat hunting actually is and why it’s important. According to the Fidelis 2018 State of Threat Detection Report, 63 percent of organizations do […]

The concept of edge computing has been steadily evolving in recent years as a way to bring cloud computing type approaches to the edge of network deployments. On Oct. 25, Mirantis announced its entry into the edge computing market with Mirantis Cloud Platform Edge (MCP Edge). While Mirantis has strong ties as a founding member […]

The state of software security in 2018 is marginally better than what it was in 2017, but there is still lots of room to improve, according to the 2018 State of Software Security report from CA’s Veracode division. Among the high-level findings in the SOSS report is that 69 percent of discovered flaws were remediated […]

While it might seem counterintuitive, the U.S. Department of Defense has been actively encouraging hackers to hack the Pentagon since 2016, in an effort to identify software vulnerabilities. On Oct. 24, the DoD announced an expansion of its bug bounty efforts, awarding contracts to three managed bug bounty vendors: HackerOne, Synack and Bugcrowd.  HackerOne and […]

All over the web there are sites, services and advertisers that are actively tracking users. It’s a situation that Mozilla wants to improve for users with better control and visibility over tracking. On Oct. 24, Mozilla announced the release of its open-source Firefox 63 web browser, providing users with an Enhanced Tracking Protection feature. Firefox […]

Netscout Systems announced its Arbor Edge Defense security system on Oct. 23, providing organizations with automated inbound and outbound protection against threats. The AED technology, which Netscout is positioning as a stateless technology that blocks cyber-threats, is deployed at the perimeter of an enterprise network. AED also provides distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection for attacks of […]

At OpenWorld 2018 on Oct. 23, Oracle announced a series of new cloud security technologies, providing organizations with enhanced capabilities to defend against attacks. Among the new security capabilities is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to help protect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers from web application attacks. Oracle is also adding distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection to […]

As enterprise developers increasingly adopt cloud-native architectures, there is a need for a new generation of tools that help developers manage infrastructure the same way they manage code. That’s an area where startup Pulumi is looking to help, providing an open-source infrastructure-as-code platform that first became available in June. On Oct. 22 the company announced […]