Sean Michael Kerner

COMMENTARY: I spent a few days this week at the SecTor conference in Toronto, an event that isn't quite the Black Hat of the North (though maybe we could

The latest Linux 2.6.27 kernel release is out with support for Webcams as well as a new file system for SSDs (solid state disks) (define) among its

Microsoft's .NET framework on Linux is getting a big boost with the official release Monday of Novell's Mono 2.0. The Mono 2.0 release is Novell's open

While there are some problems with IT security in the U.S., Americans in general have better security behavior to prevent data loss than other parts of

The .ORG, Public Interest Registry (PIR) gTLD (generic top level domain) is perhaps best known as the non-profit registry for millions of organizations.

For some Linux distribution projects, new releases come twice a year. That had been the plan for Gentoo Linux this year, until it canceled its current

NEW YORK -- According to Phillippe Winthrop, research director at Strategy Analytics, there are 172 million smart phones in use today, and that number

NEW YORK -- Datacenters. Every big enterprise has them, but how many actually have solid metrics to determine the value of their datacenter? In a session

The Web browser is the principal tool by which we all connect to the Internet to consume content. It's also one of the principal tools that attackers use

One of the cornerstones of the landmark interoperability deal between Novell and Microsoft was, and is, virtualization. Two years after they struck their

Though the U.S. still trails other parts of the world in deployment of high-speed broadband, all is not lost. According to the latest State of the

Linux vendor Red Hat is upping the ante in the virtualization market with the $107 million dollar cash acquisition Thursday of privately held