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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 it [...]
Continue Reading New attack to leverage good code for evil
Tags: dark reading, informationweek, return-oriented programming
By Ken Y-N
September 25th, 2008 at 11:26am
Under TNC
Mike Fratto of InformationWeek attended the recent NAC Day at Interop, moderating a panel made up of employees of the sponsors. The key message seems to be standardisation, as NAC, Network Access Control, is not a single-product single-vendor solution.
The three competing solutions seem to be Cisco’s Network Access Control, Microsoft’s Network Access Protection, and the [...]
Continue Reading NAC needs to be vendor-neutral
Tags: informationweek, interop, mike fratto, nac
By Ken Y-N
September 17th, 2008 at 02:23pm
Under TNC
This is the rather corny, if not downright dreadful, title for a panel that was presented at NAC (Network Access Control) Day 2008 yesterday Tuesday 16th. Sorry for being behind the times, but the title was too terrible to pass over the story!
Mike Fratto sat in on a panel with the above NAC, NAC title, [...]
Continue Reading NAC, NAC - What’s There?
Tags: informationweek, interop, nac
By Ken Y-N
June 9th, 2008 at 03:20pm
Under TNC
InformationWeek has published an overview of the IF-MAP (Interface for Metadata Access Point) from the TCG’s (Trusted Computing Group) TNC (Trusted Network Connect) workgroup, focusing on how this new protocol can be used to integrate disparate devices for stronger NAC (Network Access Control).
Perhaps the first question many people have is what exactly is IF-MAP and [...]
Continue Reading Technical roadmap for IF-MAP
Tags: if-map, informationweek
By Ken Y-N
