August 5th, 2008 at 03:09pm Under TPM
On the official Trusted Computing Group (TCG) blog, Rob Enderle posted about how security software should take advantage of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) built into many enterprise computers these days. Along with the fact that less than 10% of TPMs are turned on these days, Dell, who ship their business offerings with TPMs, recently [...]
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August 1st, 2008 at 02:36pm Under TPM
On his blog, recluze (I assume he’s a he!) announced that he has joined the Java Community Process (JCP), specifically to take part in the definition of JSR321 (Java Specification Request) for Trusted Computing. This Trusted Computing Specification is described thus:
“The Trusted Computing Group developed a standard API for accessing Trusted Computing functionality from applications, [...]
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July 14th, 2008 at 02:13pm Under TPM
Since almost every blogger seems to be jumping onto the iPhone bandwagon, I thought I’d weigh in too with this rumour that the new 3G Apple iPhone has a TPM (Trusted Platform Module):
Word is going around that the iPhone 3G has a Trusted Computing chip to detect tampering and thus disabling jailbreaking and SIM unlocking.
Although [...]
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Tags: iphone, trustzone, wireless forums
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July 2nd, 2008 at 02:50pm Under TPM
The Windows For Devices web site published an article on a new COM (computer-on-module) image processing and automation-targeted COM Express format Intel Celeron M or Core Duo-equipped board. It comes with Windows Embedded, but also supports Linux. It is available now, but no price was listed.
To keep on topic, it also has a Trusted Platform [...]
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June 26th, 2008 at 06:13am Under TPM
A recent announcement/press release from Wave Systems discloses that they have entered into an agreement with Wells Fargo to allow their mortgage division to use Wave’s eSign Transaction Management Suite (eTMS) for electronic disclosure (or eDisclosure) of mortgate-related documents. The benefits to Wells Fargo and their mortgage division is described as follows:
Correspondents using these applications [...]
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June 11th, 2008 at 08:23am Under TPM
Although up to now the TPM has been available almost exclusively on a PC-based platform, with this latest announcement from Atmel the spread to embedded systems can progress.
The trademarked CryptoController, Atmel’s own implementation of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) as specified by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), is now ready for integration into embedded designs.
What [...]
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June 3rd, 2008 at 01:39pm Under TPM
Jagan Nathan Vaman looked at security issues surrounding laptops for the Hindu Business Line. According to a study (by whom is not mentioned) up to 80% of a company’s business data is on laptops, which is quite a scary figure, assuming it is correct. Therefore, protecting this data against loss is important.
The article looks at [...]
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May 27th, 2008 at 01:21pm Under TPM
VMKnoppix is a specialist KNOPPIX Live CD, which in itself is based on Debian. This distribution contains a number of Virtual Machin software packages such as Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, QEMU, KQEMU (QEMU with accelerator) and UserMode Linux. The latest release, based on KNOPPIX 5.3.1, version number 20080519, also includes a secure virtual machine monitor BitVisor [...]
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April 28th, 2008 at 02:20pm Under TPM
AMD have just announced their new Business Class of desktop and notebook solutions designed for business customers, built around the Phenom and Athlon processors. The full spec can be found in this PRWeb article, but the bit of interest to this blog is:
AMD Business Class platforms offer future-ready solutions with the features and interoperability businesses [...]
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April 23rd, 2008 at 01:54pm Under TPM
Aruba Networks have recently announce a new range of 802.11a/b/g access points that are ready for upgrade to the dual-radio 802.11n standard as required.
As this 802.11n is still new, clients that support this are thin on the ground, so this new access point is ready and waiting for when organisations are prepared to make the [...]
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