Sean Michael Kerner

Two years after it launched Extended Validation SSL (EV-SSL), more than 11,300 valid certificates have been sold, with around 8,000 of them sold by VeriSign, developer of the certificates. Of course, considering that VeriSign has over one million standard SSL certificates total, EV-SSL still has a ways to go until it is dominant. SSL (define) […]

Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community. It’s a message that Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) isn’t boasting about yet, but was willing to discuss with InternetNews.com. Cisco is the world’s largest networking vendor […]

Apple isn’t pulling any punches with its new Safari 4 Web browser, which has began a public beta. New user interface features, developer enhancements, performance improvements and new Web standards compliance are all key constituents of the Safari 4 release. The new release arrives amid a flurry of browser betas and improvements by all the […]

Juniper gave a few tantalizing details of advanced technology in its development pipeline at an analysts day Tuesday. The company’s founder and chief technology officer, Pradeep Sindhu, announced a new silicon initiative from Juniper that he claimed was a quantum jump over current solutions. Sindhu called it a network instruction set processor and it is […]

WASHINGTON — Is it time for the U.S. to develop “cyberweapons”? Paul Kurtz thinks so. A former cybersecurity and homeland security expert for the Clinton and Bush White Houses blasted the current state of U.S. network defenses during a keynote here at the Black Hat security conference, arguing that the country’s efforts are both poorly […]

Linux lovers rejoice — you’ll also be getting a present this Valentine’s Day in the form of the Debian Lenny release. Lenny, named after a character in the Disney/Pixar film “Toy Story,” marks the first major Debian release since Etch in April 2007. It’s an important milestone for the distro, which is the basis of […]

Apple has come out with its first major security advisory update of 2009, with fixes to Mac OS X as well as the Safari Web browser. But at least one security expert said the company took too long to respond to problems that had been flagged in Safari. On the OS X side, Security Update […]

Though times are tough throughout the economy, open source networking vendor GroundWork claims it’s doing just fine — and it’s counting on a new release of its flagship monitoring software to keep it that way. The company this week introduced its new Monitor 5.3 release, which it said increases its scalability and availability while adding […]

The head of the Mozilla Foundation, the open source group responsible for the Firefox browser, offered the organization’s help to the European Commission (EC) on Friday in its latest antitrust case against Microsoft. Reportedly, that outstretched hand has been accepted. If it seems like a familiar situation, it is. EC regulators informed Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) […]

There’s little disagreement that managing power consumption for energy-hungry enterprise devices are key issues in the networking world. There is, however, debate about how best to go about it. And at the moment, a good deal of that argument is centering around Cisco’s EnergyWise initiative, which promises to eventually be able to manage a wide […]