Inside Job? TJX cost of breach estimated at $1.6 billion

April 12th, 2007

Over the last couple of days there have been rumors whether the massive breach at TJX might have been an “inside-job”. This is probably fueled by the fact that the attacker apparently had access to the crypto keys within TJX’s data center. Whether it was an inside-job or not, doesn’t really matter at this point.

Protegrity […]

Should Security be optional?

March 29th, 2007

Last week 37Signals launched another product as part of their online productivity suite. It’s called Highrise and it is a CRM that complements their well known project management application Basecamp. They have a whole portfolio of Ruby on Rails based apps. Take a look at their Ta-da Lists if you have problems keeping up with […]

SELinux response to Solaris Trusted Extensions comparison

March 28th, 2007

Karl MacMillan (RedHat) wrote this response to Glenn Faden’s comparison between Sun’s new Solaris Trusted Extensions and SELinux.

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The biggest misconception of this article that I want to address is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is a “trusted operating system”. It is not and hopefully never will be. Instead, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a […]

A Secure Hard Drive? Says Who?

March 12th, 2007

Seagate is close to releasing a “secure” hard drive for laptops. Obviously, this product is targeted at customers where laptops with sensitive data have been lost and public embarrassment quickly ensued (or at least a quick public dismissal of any risk). It’s an interesting product to be sure.

Seagate will probably have significant sales based on […]

Blue Lane now protects VMware

March 12th, 2007

Securing and keeping up server environments is tedious enough, but what about all these virtual machines that are popping up all over the network? Blue Lane, which I’ve talked about in the past - here and here, might have found a cure for all those VMs wreaking havoc within your network.

Virtualization compounds the problem of […]

Solaris Trusted Extensions vs. SELinux

February 28th, 2007

Glenn Faden, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems has published this very insightful article about the differences between the Trusted Solaris successor - Solaris Trusted Extensions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux which contains SELinux functionality.

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Overview of the Trusted Extensions and RHEL5 LSPP Systems
The Solaris 10 Operating System provides new frameworks for containment (zones), user rights management […]

 
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