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E-Week has an article about the popular computer hardware review site Tom’s Hardware (tomshardware.com) being hit by a trojan in a banner advert. From the article it’s not clear whether a criminal paid for a banner advert under a legitimate business name or compromised the advertising server run by an innocent third-party who paid for […] Frank Mayer of Tresys has written a great article on the techtarget.com site about SE Linux. It seems mostly aimed at managers and novice users and explains how SE Linux isn’t really that difficult to use but is however a foundation technology that is needed for secure systems. Check it out! Related posts: SE Linux on /. The book SE Linux by Example has been reviewed on… Today I gave three talks at my local LUG. The first was my latest SE Linux talk (I’ll put the notes online soon). The second was a talk about voting. I asked for a show of hands, who has already decided which party they will vote for at the next federal election (about 12 people […] Sune Vuorela asks about how to secure important data such as GPG keys on laptops. I believe that the ideal solution involves booting from a USB device with an encrypted root filesystem to make subversion of the machine more difficult (note that physically subverting the machine is still possible – EG through monitoring the keyboard […] Jeff Waugh wrote an amusing post about SE Linux and GConf support. It’s good to see SE Linux being promoted to the GNOME community. Related posts: music for children Adam Rosi-Kessel made an interesting post about They Might Be… I have just read the Presentation Zen blog post about PowerPoint. One of the interesting suggestions was that it’s not effective to present the same information twice, so you don’t have notes covering what you say. Having a diagram that gives the same information is effective though because it gives a different way of analyzing […] The online magazine EWeek has done a review of RHEL5. It’s quite a positive review which can be summarised as “good support for Xen as service (not an appliance), better value than previous versions with the licenses for multiple guests included, and SE Linux briefly got in the way but the Troubleshooting tool fixed it […] At http://tanso.net/selinux/ Jan-Frode Myklebust has documented his work in creating new SE Linux policy to run Googleearth on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. He discussed this with us on #selinux in irc.freenode.net (the main SE Linux IRC channel). One of his later IRC comments was: <janfrode> btw erich, the reason for creating this googleearth module […] The below document was reproduced from the NSA web site with permission. I have moved three footnotes to comments within the document (footnotes don’t work well in HTML) and also converted the HTTP references to links. The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments Peter A. Loscocco, Stephen D. […] |
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