February 16th, 2010 at 03:44pm
Under TNC
I picked up an interesting article on The Register today about Juniper’s new mobile client security software named Junos Pulse, which seems to implement the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect on a smartphone, with Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian OS listed as partners, and I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if RIM’s BlackBerry [...]
Continue Reading Juniper feels the mobile pulse
Tags: juniper, junos pulse
By Ken Y-N
February 15th, 2010 at 02:32pm
Under Advocacy
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
I am disappointed that there doesn’t seem to be an official comment from Infineon on their web site regarding this attack.
Continue Reading As Oscar Wilde once said
Tags: infineon, oscar widle
By Ken Y-N
February 13th, 2010 at 04:02pm
Under Storage
Softex recently posted a press release about an upgrade to their software to handle self-encrypting drives and Intel’s new vPro technology. The self-encrypting drive standard supported is the Trusted Computing Group’s OPAL standard, and the Intel vPro stuff supports secure remote management of PCs, their self-encrypting drives, the Trusted Platform Module configuration, and many other [...]
Continue Reading Softex announces new software for managing self-encrypting drives and Intel’s vPro
Tags: intel, softex, vpro
By Ken Y-N
February 12th, 2010 at 04:21pm
Under Uncategorized
I’ve just added a Blog of Trust account on Twitter, which for the time being will be merely echoing posts from here.
Don’t forget also to sign up to TrustedComputin too, which is quite active with all the latest Trusted Computing headlines.
Continue Reading Blog of Trust goes all aTwitter
Tags: twitter
By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2010 at 03:41pm
Under General
Wave Systems recently released a press release describing how they have upgraded their EMBASSY suite of software to handle Intel’s vPro technology. Intel vPro has hardware-embedded secure remote management technology, which Wave exploit to allow the IT department to securely access a PC at any time, updating TPM states and managing Opel-compliant self-encrypting drives, in [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems add support for Intel’s vPro
Tags: intel, wave
By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2010 at 03:31pm
Under Virtualisation
According to a recent press release, General Dynamics have had their Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE) added to the list of approved products for use by the US Department of Defense and intelligence communities. The product is all software and runs on standard off-the-shelf PCs, and, although not stated in the article, it uses a Trusted [...]
Continue Reading General Dynamics get their Trusted Virtual Environment approved
Tags: general dynamics, tve
By Ken Y-N
February 5th, 2010 at 03:12pm
Under TPM
The big news of the last week in the Trusted Computing world has been an announcement of an attack on a TPM. The full article is very interesting to see how the attack took place.
The Trusted Computing Group has also published their opinion on the attack, which highlights that nothing is ever 100% secure, but [...]
Continue Reading Hardware attack on Trusted Platform Module
Tags: black hat
By Ken Y-N
February 4th, 2010 at 03:25pm
Under Advocacy
With the announcement of Apple’s iPad, the outpouring of hate has been quite something to behold, with, unfortunately, trusted computing taking a lot of collateral damage from the flames. Here is a summary of some of the posts that I have come across:
genomicon: Against The White Cliffs of NeoPalladium: Apple are even worse than Microsoft [...]
Continue Reading Apple’s iPad is the work of the devil!
Tags: apple, ipad
By Ken Y-N
February 4th, 2010 at 02:46pm
Under Virtualisation
L4 and its variants is a popular microkernel that can be found in many places, including even right at the bottom of Google’s Android system. So, I was interested to read about a formal proof for seL4, after five years of work by Open Kernel Labs and NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre [...]
Continue Reading Open Kernel Labs’ kernel proved correct
Tags: open kernel labs, sel4
By Ken Y-N
February 3rd, 2010 at 03:25pm
Under General
The Trusted Computer Group will be hosting a seminar at the RSA Conference 2010 in the Moscone Centre in San Francisco on Monday the 1st of March. It is entitled "Come Participate in the Industry’s First International Security Playground!", and you get to meet all the usual suspects from TCG member companies.
Furthermore, on the next [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing Group at RSA Conference 2010
Tags: rsa conference
By Ken Y-N
