October 27th, 2008 at 02:00pm
Under Advocacy
I might be just a bit slow and missing the point, but a recent post on the W-Shadow.com blog on Less Popular Revolutions picked Trusted Computing as one of the candidates.
[Trusted Computing] could have a huge impact on our lives and provide us with many new and exciting benefits:
Better protection from viruses, malware and phishing. [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing damned with faint praise
Tags: wrong
By Ken Y-N
October 22nd, 2008 at 04:54pm
Under Virtualisation
Intel and Oracle have joined together to work on implementing standards for security and efficiency in cloud computing. In a nutshell, cloud computing allows you to run an application anywhere on a set of computers out there on the internet. When you add trusted computing, in particular trusted computing with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), [...]
Continue Reading Cloudy future for trusted virtualisation
Tags: cloud computing, efluxmedia, intel, oracle
By Ken Y-N
October 22nd, 2008 at 01:53pm
Under General
Most of the stories I post here are related to corporate applications for trusted computing, so it makes a nice change for me to be able to pass on a tip on how to use the TPM that may be in your own computer to encrypt your drive with Microsoft’s BitLocker on Windows Vista.
This article [...]
Continue Reading How to use your TPM with BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, vista
By Ken Y-N
October 21st, 2008 at 01:38pm
Under Advocacy
Once again I read an article, this time on TechNewsWorld by Jeremiah T. Gray of LinuxInsider on, well, I’m not really too sure, but it does feature gratuitous abuse regarding trusted computing, appearing in this paragraph:
In the past couple of decades, powerful multinational corporations and their legal teams have done some unorthodox modifications of their [...]
Continue Reading Is this worth refuting or debated?
Tags: technewsworld
By Ken Y-N
October 21st, 2008 at 10:29am
Under General
Government Contract News recently published an alphabet soup of abbreviations regarding some new hardware; read the full story here to try to make sense of the following:
Baltimore-based SafeNet Inc. has launched a Type 1 encryptor that runs at up to 10 Gbps over SONET, certified by the NSA. The KG-340 is the first COMSEC-developed system [...]
Continue Reading 10 Gbps encrypted optical networks
Tags: gcn, kg-340, safenet
By Ken Y-N
October 20th, 2008 at 02:01pm
Under TPM
As a happy home user of a mini Acer Aspire desktop, I was rather interested to see a recent press release on how Acer are adding Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips to their motherboards in their Veriton 670 business desktop computer, and bundling an OEM version of Wave System’s EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) for managing [...]
Continue Reading Acer adds TPM and Wave to their PCs
Tags: acer, itpm, wave
By Ken Y-N
October 20th, 2008 at 11:59am
Under General
I read an interesting article on IT Business Canada regarding security here about Stephen Toulouse from Microsoft’s X-box Live team, but it was marred by the final paragraph:
The Redmond-based company’s Trusted Computing Group was [Stephen Toulouse's] own work area before becoming a member of the Xbox Live team.
The Trusted Computing Group is most certainly not [...]
Continue Reading Sloppy reporting from IT Business
Tags: it business, stephen toulouse
By Ken Y-N
October 9th, 2008 at 02:22pm
Under TCG
At the upcoming RSA Europe Conference on the 27th or 29th of October 2008 at the London ExCel Centre, on Monday the 27th from 11:30 to 17:00 in the centre’s Platinum Room 5/6/7 on Level 2 there will be a chance to experience first-hand the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Platform Module, network security and [...]
Continue Reading TCG Hands-On Day at RSA Europe
Tags: rsa
By Ken Y-N
October 8th, 2008 at 04:46am
Under Virtualisation
Rob McCammon, the Vice President of Product Management for Open Kernel Labs, is due to speak - well, by the time you read this he’ll have already finished! - at the ARM Developer’ Conference in Santa Clara on the 7th of October 2008.
He will be explaining how virtualisation can address security challenges in the real [...]
Continue Reading Open Kernel Labs to speak at ARM Developers’ Conference
Tags: arm, open kernel labs, Virtualisation
By Ken Y-N
October 3rd, 2008 at 09:27am
Under MTM
TECOM, Trusted Embedded COMputing, is a project funded in part by Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA) looking at trusted computing in embedded systems, with a €1,516,639 budget.
Aonix have announced that they will provide the PERC Ultra Java Virtual Machine to be integrated with the TECOM middleware and the TECOM trusted operating system, itself built [...]
Continue Reading Aonix contributing PERC Ultra JVM to TECOM
Tags: aonix, java, perc ultra, tecom
By Ken Y-N
