Articles by Sean Michael Kerner

General to U.S. Officials: 'Quit Whining, Act Like a Man, Defend Yourself'

At Black Hat Thursday, retired General Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA, compared cyberspace to other military domains, such as air, land, and sea, and likened it to the North German Plain during the Cold War.

Millions of Home Routers at Risk

New tool demoed at the Black Hat security conference shows how easy it is to attack routers--and how to defend against those attacks.

SSL Study Shows Most Sites Incorrectly Configured

Black Hat research takes a deep look at SSL security and finds it lacking due to a number of common configuration issues.

Microsoft Brings Security Outreach Message to Black Hat

Microsoft expands security disclosure program as it tries to work closer with researchers and other software vendors, including Adobe.

Whitelisting Advances with New Bouncer App

The latest whitelisting release from CoreTrace adds application intelligence capabilities and more permissive options for new application installation.

Sourcefire Launches Razorback Open Source Security Framework

New open source project set to correlate security information from multiple types of technologies with a defense security router.

Black Hat USA 2010 Preview

At Black Hat USA 2010 Las Vegas, mobile apps, Internet infrastructure enterprise networking, and more go under the microscope starting Wednesday, as security researchers probe all manner of Internet connectivity and security issues.

Mozilla Rushes Out Another Firefox Security Update

With the release of Firefox 3.6.8, Mozilla is fixing only one security flaw omitted from last week's release, while work progresses on Firefox 4.

Cisco: U.S. Leads in Spam; IT Policies Not Being Followed

Cisco's midyear security report paints a bleak picture of non-compliance by IT users for enterprise policies.

Mozilla Patches Firefox for 14 Vulnerabilities

Ahead of Black Hat, Firefox 3.6.7 addresses a slew of flaws -- one of which had been fixed weeks ago by Google Chrome.

Dell Kace Debuts Secure Firefox Browser

The Dell Kace Secure Browser takes a different approach to isolating and managing browser instances to improve enterprise security.

DNSSEC Now Deployed in Root DNS

A major historical milestone will see the Net's core infrastructure get a new security feature. A look at why it matters and what else the Internet's operators are doing to keep the Net safe.

Oracle Patches 59 Vulnerabilities in Sun, Database and Middleware Tech

The July Oracle CPU is the company's largest security vulnerability update so far this year.

Google Updates Chrome for 10 Security Flaws

Another week, another big security fix for Chrome as Google moves to tackle newly discovered vulnerabilities.