Sean Michael Kerner

Nearly 30 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a new way to distribute information and knowledge. Now in 2018, Berners-Lee is concerned the web he helped to create has become increasingly centralized and puts user information at risk. On Sept. 28, Berners-Lee announced his new effort to help decentralize internet information […]

It wasn’t one but at least three different bugs that enabled a data breach impacting 90 million Facebook users that was first reported on Sept 28. Facebook has revealed additional technical details about its data breach that involved unknown attackers somehow obtaining access tokens for Facebook users. In an initial advisory on the issue, Facebook […]

This continues to be a challenging year for Facebook.  On Sept. 28, the company publicly admitted that it was the victim of a data breach that impacted approximately 50 million user accounts. Out of an abundance of caution, Facebook is resetting the access tokens for a total of 90 million user accounts. The breach was […]

There are many different ways that an attacker can compromise a system, one of them is getting users to ignore warnings about risk.  Cisco Talos along with partner ReversingLabs reported a new approach used by the Adwin Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that makes used of Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) to get past users’ anti-virus software. […]

It wasn’t that long ago when major releases of Java were years apart, but that has changed in 2018, with Oracle releasing not one, but two major releases so far this year. On Sept. 25, Oracle released Java 11, providing users of the widely deployed programming language with 17 new features, including performance, scalability and security […]

Some features take longer than others to get right. On Sept. 27, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the general availability of Kubernetes 1.12. Among the highlights of the update is the stable release of TLS Bootstrapping, a security capability that developers have been working on for the past two years, since the release of […]

Alphabet’s Chronicle security division announced the launch of VirusTotal Enterprise on Sept. 27, providing security professionals with new tools and capabilities to hunt malware. VirusTotal Enterprise is a new version of the popular VirusTotal online service, combining capabilities that had previously been known as premium features on the platform with new capabilities. Among the new […]

Cloudflare is celebrating its eighth birthday this week with a series of announcements that look to accelerate and secure the internet, as well as helping organizations to save some money. On Sept. 24, Cloudflare announced its support of the Encrypted Server Name Indication (ESNI) service in a bid to keep service providers from being able […]

For six years in a row, Verizon has reported a steady increase in compliance with the PCI-DSS security standard for payment security. Unfortunately, it’s a trend that has now changed course. On Sept. 25, Verizon released its 2018 Payment Security Report, revealing a drop in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliance. In the […]

Pivotal along with VMware announced the new Pivotal Container Service 1.2 update on Sept. 25, providing new capabilities for the Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform. The PKS update was announced at Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform developer conference, alongside the new Pivotal CloudFoundry (PCF) 2.3 and Pivotal Application Service (PAS) 2.3 releases. Among the new features that landed in […]