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Bruce Schneier summarised a series of articles about banking security [1]. He mentioned the fact that banks don’t seem to care about small losses and would rather just deal with the problem (presumably by increasing their fees to account for losses). There are some other interesting bits in the article, for example banks are planning […] deb http://www.coker.com.au etch selinux The above sources.list line has all the i386 packages needed for running SE Linux with strict policy on Etch as well as a couple of packages that are not strictly needed but which are really convenient (to solve the executable stack issue). gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key F5C75256 gpg -a --export F5C75256 […] Danny Angus writes about the potential threat posed by small storage devices with large capacity [1]. His post was prompted by a BBC article about Hitachi’s plans for new hard drives [2], they are aiming for 4TB of data on a single drive by 2011 and a 1TB laptop drive. One thing I noticed about […] Today was the final day of the AUUG 2007 conference [1]. Yesterday I gave a talk about SE Linux for about an hour (not sure exactly as I forgot to make an MP3). AUUG is well known for having conferences with very technical delegates and I wasn’t expecting an easy audience. At the start of […] Eddy writes about problems getting the game oolite to run under SE Linux [1]. Strangely after I fixed the shared object issue with libffcall1 (as described in my previous post [2]) it appeared to work for me. Eddy asked how to allow one application to create write and executable memory regions without allowing such access […] Debian has a program called Lintian that is used to search for common bugs in Debian packages. When it encounters a package with a shared object that requests an executable stack (as described in my previous post about executable stacks and shared objects [1]) it gives a warning such as the following: W: liblzo1: shlib-with-executable-stack […] |
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