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August 31st, 2010 at 04:42pm
Under General
David Lacey’s IT Security Blog examined the Intel buy-out of McAfee in detail, but he doesn’t see the sense in it. He paraphrases Intel’s statements on the buy-out with this: In fact the real motivation behind the deal is an initiative to embed more security in hardware. Intel confidently believes that McAfee’s security technology will [...]
Continue Reading Should Intel have bought Wave instead?
Tags: intel, mcafee, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 31st, 2010 at 04:28pm
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Kevin Townsend had a bit of a rant on his blog about McAfee being bought by Intel, a matter which has been covered both here and elsewhere, but I did enjoy the tie in with Cameron Diaz, so it was too good a headline to miss out on. He makes this point: Trusted computing is [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing even more dangerous than Cameron Diaz!
Tags: cameron diaz, intel, mcafee
By Ken Y-N
August 24th, 2010 at 04:16pm
Under General
The big news in the Trusted Computing and security world last week was Intel buying McAfee for 7.68 billion dollars. Both companies are members of the Trusted Computing Group, with Intel being a promoter, and from the press release, one of the claimed benefits to Intel of the acquisition is this: Acquisition enables a combination [...]
Continue Reading Intel buying McAfee
Tags: intel, mcafee
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 9th, 2010 at 03:41pm
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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
September 26th, 2009 at 01:59pm
Under Storage
According to this press release, Wave Systems will be demonstrating in conjunction with Dell and Lenovo at the Intel Developers Forum the use of Wave’s EMBASSY administration suite to remotely control self-encrypting drives on vPro-equipped hardware. Some of the things the EMBASSY Remote Administration Server can do are: network unlock of drives; tie particular PCs [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems, Intel vPro, and self encrypting drive backup
Tags: embassy, intel, vpro, wave
By Ken Y-N
May 20th, 2009 at 03:21pm
Under Uncategorized
LWN.net recently published an article regarding the Linux kernel patches that enable Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and verification of the integrity of the kernel before execution, in an article entitled Enabling DRM in the kernel?. The basic problem, from some Linux kernel developers’ points of view at least, is that TXT can be used [...]
Continue Reading TXT, DRM and Linux
Tags: intel, linux, lwn.net, txt
By Ken Y-N
April 20th, 2009 at 02:31pm
Under General
Ravi Sahita of Intel recently reported on P-MAPS, a hardware-rooted Trusted Computing Base. The idea is the P-MAPS implements a small Trusted Computing Base that runs at a very low level, and in an OS-agnostic form. This P-MAPS system also works with a TPM to provide additional security. It’s a bit too technical an article [...]
Continue Reading P-MAPS for a smaller Trusted Computing Base
Tags: intel, p-maps
By Ken Y-N
March 20th, 2009 at 02:43pm
Under TPM
I reported before on an exploit affecting TXT, Trusted Execution Technology, but a report from ArsTechnica suggests that it may just be a storm in a teacup. The summary is that there is an attack, but it’s not easy, and it’s not generalisable. However, as ArsTechnica conclude: The complexity of computer security is such that [...]
Continue Reading Attack on Intel’s TXT not really critical?
Tags: arstechnica, intel, txt
By Ken Y-N
January 6th, 2009 at 02:04pm
Under TPM
SecurityFocus reported on the presence of a flaw in Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology. The researchers Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska of Invisible Things Lab, said that they had: found flaws in specific Intel system software (corrected) and a design issue that, together, would allow an attacker to “compromise the integrity” of any software loaded by [...]
Continue Reading Flaw in Trusted Execution Technology
Tags: intel, securityfocus, txt
By Ken Y-N