Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco Talos is warning of a new attacker group it has dubbed “Sea Turtle” that is exploiting DNS information at scale across large government agencies. According to the report which was released on April 17, the Sea Turtle attack has already compromised at least 40 different organizations, spread across 13 different countries. While DNS attacks […]

BlackBerry is a very different company today than it was a decade ago, as the one-time mobile giant is now firmly positioning itself to be a global player in the cyber-security market. Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at eWEEK and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

Open source has evolved over the past two decades into a cornerstone of the modern IT landscape. At the core of the open-source revolution is the concept of enterprise open source, which is software that is backed and supported in a way that makes it easier for enterprises to consume and use in a stable, […]

Microsoft has admitted that it suffered a data breach involving its web-based email services including Outlook.com, MSN.com and Hotmail.com that lasted for three months before it was detected and remediated.  Microsoft has not fully publicly disclosed how many customer accounts were impacted, and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from […]

One of the most insightful indicators of developer sentiment and trends is the annual Stack Overflow developer survey.  The 2019 edition of the survey was released on April 10, based on responses from nearly 90,000 developers around the world. The modern world of development is often thought to be very fast moving, though the study […]

A new type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is abusing a common HTML5 attribute to overwhelm targeted victims. Security firm Imperva reported on April 11 that it has discovered a campaign where hackers abused the <a> tag ping HTML5 attribute in a DDoS attack that generated 70 million requests in four hours. The ping attribute […]

Defending against potential cyber-attacks isn’t just about prevention; it’s also about having the resilience to respond and recover. Unfortunately, the majority of organizations aren’t properly prepared for cyber-security incident response, according to the 2019 Study on the Cyber Resilient Organization, released on April 11 by IBM Security. The report was conducted by the Ponemon Institute […]

The way Google sees it, one of the primary ways to grow cloud adoption is by increasing trust and security in the cloud. At its Google Next event on April 10, Google announced new and enhanced services that look to improve security in the cloud as well as provide better security and transparency of the […]

Google is not the only vendor with cloud news this week as the open-source OpenStack cloud platform is set to announce its Stein release on April 10. OpenStack is comprised of a series of inter-related projects that can be put together in different combinations, to enable a complete cloud deployment. In the OpenStack Stein milestone, […]

Millions of homes across America have Verizon’s Fios Quantum Gateway router as their primary conduit to the internet, and many of them could be at risk, according to new research from security firm Tenable. On April 9, Tenable publicly disclosed that it was able to find multiple vulnerabilities in the Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway (G1000) […]