SE Linux in DebianSE Linux in Debian
I have now got a Debian Xen domU running the strict SE Linux policy that can boot in enforcing mode. I expect that tomorrow I will have it working with[...]
Category: Security
Tom’s Hardware falls victim to a trojanTom’s Hardware falls victim to a trojan
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[...]
Five ways SE Linux may surprise youFive ways SE Linux may surprise you
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[...]
LUG talks todayLUG talks today
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.[...]
booting from USB for securitybooting from USB for security
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[...]
Spooks and GConfSpooks and GConf
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[...]
presentations about SE Linuxpresentations about SE Linux
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[...]
Xen and SE Linux – EWeek review of RHEL5Xen and SE Linux – EWeek review of RHEL5
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[...]
SE Linux – not too difficult for new usersSE Linux – not too difficult for new users
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[...]
The Inevitability of FailureThe Inevitability of Failure
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[...]