dark reading
November 20th, 2008 at 01:01pm
Under General
As recently reported in a few online sources, two UC San Diego students have demonstrated how to abuse code that to the operating system (and to trusted computing components) is known to be good. The reports are a bit vague on what exactly “return-oriented programming” is, and I haven’t read the paper on it, but [...]
Continue Reading New attack to leverage good code for evil
Tags: dark reading, informationweek, return-oriented programming
By Ken Y-N
August 20th, 2008 at 12:14pm
Under Advocacy
On the Dark Reading site, rapidly becoming my favourite Trusted Computing-related site, Sara Peters recently posted a follow-up to a recent story I reported on regarding why Trusted Computing is not taking off. On their message board someone said this, prompting the blog post: Perhaps it’s because trusted computing resolves just a small part of [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing is not a silver bullet
Tags: dark reading, sara peters
By Ken Y-N
August 19th, 2008 at 03:23pm
Under Advocacy
I’ll directly steal the title from an article on the Dark Reading blog looking at why Trusted Computing is not taking off. The article points out that a Trusted Platform Module, as available on many enterprise PCs, can do lots of things like access control, encryption, etc in hardware, making it much harder for the [...]
Continue Reading Why Isn’t Trusted Computing taking off?
Tags: dark reading
By Ken Y-N