Sean Michael Kerner

Software engineering analytics platform provider Semmle announced its global launch on Aug. 21, alongside new funding to help the company grow its technology. Semmle announced it has raised $21 million in a Series B round of funding, led by Accel Partners with participation from Work-Bench. Total funding to date for Semmle stands at $31 million. The […]

Aqua Security has made its new Kube-hunter open-source tool generally available, enabling organizations to conduct penetration tests against Kubernetes container orchestration deployments. Aqua released Kube-hunter on Aug.17, and project code is freely available on GitHub. Rather than looking for vulnerabilities inside of container images, Kube-hunter looks for exploitable vulnerabilities in the configuration and deployment of […]

SafeBreach announced on Aug. 20 that it is expanding its breach and attack simulation platform with enhanced attack simulations and new board-level risk metrics. The SafeBreach Q3 summer release provides new email and ransomware attack simulations that can help organizations test cyber-resilience. Among the enhancements in the ransomware feature is the ability to simulate the […]

Network firewalls are still an important part of enterprise security, according to the results of FireMon’s State of the Firewall report. In fact, 94 percent of respondents to the report said firewalls remain a critical part of IT infrastructure and will remain so for at least the next five years. FireMon is in the business of […]

IT security company ESET announced on Aug. 16 the general availability of new cyber-security products that provide expanded capabilities for enterprise deployments. Among the new products is the ESET Enterprise Inspector, which is an endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology that benefits from ESET’s endpoint security platform. Also launched were the company’s on-demand Threat Hunting […]

A year ago, Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos (pictured) pledged that the social media giant would issue $1 million in grants to help fund and support internet defense efforts and research. Facebook is, in fact, living up to its pledge, announcing this month the recipients of $1 million in prizes and grants that aim to […]

TrueVault announced on Aug. 16 that it is expanding its namesake platform to help organizations keep personally identifiable information safe and in compliance with multiple regulations, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act. The TrueVault platform provides an API by which PII can be hidden from plain […]

RSA released its second-quarter 2018 fraud report on Aug. 14, finding that once again phishing attacks are the primary attack vector for fraud. The 15-page report covers the period from April 1 to June 30 and is based on data collected by the RSA Fraud and Risk Intelligence team. Among the top trends identified in […]

Security researchers have revealed yet another side-channel vulnerability that impacts Intel CPUs. The L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) vulnerability has been dubbed “Foreshadow” by researchers who publicly disclosed the issue on Aug. 14. The Foreshadow vulnerability could have potentially enabled an attacker to extract privileged information from both vulnerable CPUs as well as hypervisors and even […]

Millions of users around the world regularly install tracker apps on their Android devices to help them keep track of friends and loved ones. Some of those tracker apps, however, contain vulnerabilities that could potentially enable an attacker to track the users of the apps. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology detailed […]