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August 31st, 2010 at 04:42pm
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David Lacey’s IT Security Blog examined the Intel buy-out of McAfee in detail, but he doesn’t see the sense in it. He paraphrases Intel’s statements on the buy-out with this: In fact the real motivation behind the deal is an initiative to embed more security in hardware. Intel confidently believes that McAfee’s security technology will [...]
Continue Reading Should Intel have bought Wave instead?
Tags: intel, mcafee, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 31st, 2010 at 04:28pm
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Kevin Townsend had a bit of a rant on his blog about McAfee being bought by Intel, a matter which has been covered both here and elsewhere, but I did enjoy the tie in with Cameron Diaz, so it was too good a headline to miss out on. He makes this point: Trusted computing is [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing even more dangerous than Cameron Diaz!
Tags: cameron diaz, intel, mcafee
By Ken Y-N
August 24th, 2010 at 04:16pm
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The big news in the Trusted Computing and security world last week was Intel buying McAfee for 7.68 billion dollars. Both companies are members of the Trusted Computing Group, with Intel being a promoter, and from the press release, one of the claimed benefits to Intel of the acquisition is this: Acquisition enables a combination [...]
Continue Reading Intel buying McAfee
Tags: intel, mcafee
By Ken Y-N
August 20th, 2010 at 03:07pm
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I’m sure I’ve mentioned this company before, but I can’t find the story again! Regardless, it’s an interesting development that deserves not just a first but also a second mention. Symbio Technologies have released a new version of their Symbiont Boot Stick, a USB memory stick containing a protected trusted environment that can access a [...]
Continue Reading Symbio’s Trusted Endpoint on a stick
Tags: symbio
By Ken Y-N
June 8th, 2010 at 03:47pm
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I see a posting from Marco Casassa Mont, an HP employee, on a vacancy at HP Labs Bristol (or Princeton). The desirable qualifications are: A PhD in a discipline relevant to information security. Experience of security management in large organisations. Deep knowledge of at least one area of significance to security management, e.g. network security, [...]
Continue Reading HP Labs looking for a security researcher
Tags: hp, job
By Ken Y-N
June 7th, 2010 at 02:36pm
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This recent press release is not directly TPM-related (although who knows what the future holds), but Intertrust is always a company I’m interested in. They have teamed up with the all too appropriately-initialled CCTV to develop a DRM protection system for high-definition video. The China DRM (Digital Rights Management) Forum is also in on the [...]
Continue Reading Intertrust partners with China broadcaster for DRM
Tags: cctv, china, drm, intertrust
By Ken Y-N
May 11th, 2010 at 02:44pm
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The website DefenseTech had an article summarising the latest attempts to build a Secure (and by implication Trusted) Operating System. China, Australia, the European Union and the USA’s best are described in outline; to me the one of most interest is selL4, Secure L4, as it is a real product and is closely related to [...]
Continue Reading State of the art in Secure Operating Systems
Tags: defensetech, sel4
By Ken Y-N
April 23rd, 2010 at 03:52pm
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An article from TMCnet.com (translated from the Chinese source, it seems) discussed the growth in the Chinese security market, describing a predicted growth of 21.5% on average over the next three years. The growth sectors were listed as: [M]obile Internet security, mobile cloud computing security, trusted computing, trusted network, security authentication, security management, data security, [...]
Continue Reading Information security market in China to grow by over 20% annually
Tags: china
By Ken Y-N
April 23rd, 2010 at 03:38pm
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A report from Vivek Kunda, the USA’s Chief Information Officer, regarding the release of new FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) guidance, was published on the Gov Monitor web site. Although the article says that this guidance was published on the same day as the column, there’s no link and Google doesn’t return anything useful. [...]
Continue Reading Guidance for FISMA compliance issues
Tags: fisma, gov monitor
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2010 at 04:49pm
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I picked up an interesting post about a new service from Beyond Oblivion Inc, which will offer social networking plus unlimited access to Digital Rights Managed music. There are two backers announced, providing a total of $10 million in funding; first is Allen & Co, an investment bank that specialises in the entertainment business, and [...]
Continue Reading Beyond Oblivion – another new DRM-protected music service
Tags: beyond oblivion, drm, intertrust
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