IRS patches 5000 servers and 125000 workstations
IRS Blasts Worm With Autonomic Software: Basically an ad for Tivoli Software Distribution, Remote Control, and Enterprise Console
Bear: An Open-Source Virtual Secure Coprocessor based on TCPA
MacDonald, Smith, Marchesini, Wild (Dartmouth):
Bear: An Open-Source Virtual Secure Coprocessor based on TCPA:
This paper reports on our ongoing project to use TCPA to transform a desktop Linux machine into a virtual secure coprocessor: more powerful but less secure than higher-end devices. We use TCPA hardware and modified boot loaders to protect fairly static components, such as a trusted kernel; we use an enforcer module—configured as Linux Security Module—to protected more dynamic system components; we use an encrypted loopback filesystem to protect highly dynamic components.
XKMS
Phil Wainewright:
XKMS is key
You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If…
Vernon Schryver: You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If…
ISIPP & False Positives & Vendor Liability in US spam law (proposal)
ISIPP’s Anne Mitchell mostly discusses the pain of false positives, and suggests vendor legal liability as one solution.
[via taint.org]
Is that a firewall on your perimeter or just some Swiss cheese?
David Berlind (ZDNET):
Is that a firewall on your perimeter or just some Swiss cheese?
Case Western Opens Its WiFi Network to Cleveland
Wi-Fi Networking News:
Case Western Opens Its Network to Cleveland:
It’s an ambitious project that allows the public to take advantage of an expensive, but bursty and abundant service. The university has over 1,200 access points, and unless it’s a unique case, there must be businesses, apartments, and houses sprawled all around and on top of it that can take advantage, as well as visitors to the campus. The project is labeled OneCleveland.
W3C Opens Public Discussion Forum on US Patent 5,838,906 and Eolas v. Microsoft.
Cover Pages: W3C Opens Public Discussion Forum on US Patent 5,838,906 and Eolas v. Microsoft:
- Eolas claims: ‘The patent covers Web browsers that support such currently popular technologies as ActiveX components, Java applets, and Navigator plug-ins. Eolas’ advanced browser technology makes possible rich interactive online experiences for over 500 million Web users, worldwide.’
- The article’s analysis: “People already of the opinion that US laws on software patents are hopelessly broken, that philosophical justification is fatally flawed, and that the patent review process is badly administered (patent application reviewers having no concept of what a “non-obvious” software solution might be) — will have no difficulty classifying this case as yet another in a long history of embarrassing episodes, giving the Europeans just cause for derisive laughter. People already of the opinion that software patents constitute a healthy mechanism for supporting innovation will applaud the entrepreneurial spirit of the University of California in (apparently) landing this big fish at the expense of a(nother) convicted monopolist. Open source software vendors are understandably worried about rulings such as this, as they have no adequate weapons with which to defend themselves against attack.”
