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An Approach to a Trustworthy System Architecture Using Virtualization: This paper presents a system architecture for trusted transactions in highly sensitive environments. This architecture takes advantage of techniques provided by the Trusted Computing Group TCG to attest the system state of the communication partners, to guarantee that the system is free of malware and that its software has not...; Tags: Attestation, Springer Science+Business Media, Trusted Platform Module, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-08-11
Configure and manage Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Services to secure a Microsoft Vista system: Although the Trusted Platform Module TPM is an emerging technology, Microsoft has successfully built a very robust and secure platform around it. The TPM itself does not prevent virus attacks, theft of equipment, theft of data, or hacking attempts, but it does allow software developers to outfit...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Trusted Platform Module, Chapter Coverage, Microsoft Windows, Security, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hacking, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software; Book chapters 2007-03-20
Subscriber content on the PC -- for consumers or business audiences first?: Had a nice chat with Michael Sprague, president of Wavexpress, about their TVTonic and TechTonic brands. If you scratch beneath the covers here a bit and consider the implications for subscriber-purchased Internet content, you'll see a model quite different from Google's and Apple's. Indeed, this may become the Microsoft-preferred method...; Tags: Trusted Platform Module, Web; Blog posts 2006-11-02
Correction on Vista and TPM versioning: Microsoft has issued a correction to the statements that were given to me during our last conference call regarding the type of Trusted Platform Module hardware that must be included in a PC in order for certain security features of Vista to work. In that call, Microsoft mentioned...; Tags: Trusted Platform Module; Blog posts 2005-10-06
Microsoft: No substitutes for Trusted Platform Module allowed: In response to one of the questions raised during last week's Vista conference call with Microsoft, a spokesperson for the Redmond, WA-based company has informed me that in order for users to get the full benefits of the Trusted Platform ModuleTPM-reliant features in Windows Vista such as Secure Startup and...; Tags: Trusted Platform Module; Blog posts 2005-09-27

Will Vista's DRM/TPM integration foil virtual machines?: In response to one of my earlier blogs regarding my usage of VMware's VMware Workstation 5 on my Acer Ferrari Vista64 testbed system, ZDNet reader "Otto Delete" asks a great question: I'd be interested in knowing if the final version of Vista will even install on a virtual machine. Running...; Tags: virtual machine, digital-rights management, Trusted Platform Module, hardware, Microsoft Windows Vista, Parallels Inc., VMware Inc.; Blog posts 2005-09-09
PC hardware filling in more security gaps: The year 2004 may go down in history as the year that PC hardware finally stepped up to the plate to take over desktop and notebook security where software leaves off, or just can't get the job done. In addition to sporting hardware-enforced buffer-overflow protection (now shipping in processors from...; Tags: hardware, Trusted Platform Module; Blog posts 2004-09-20
Windows Vista Beta 2 Trusted Platform Module Services Step by Step Guide: Trusted Platform Module TPM Services is a new feature set in Microsoft Windows Vista used to administer the TPM Security Hardware in your computer. TPM Services architecture provides the infrastructure for hardware-based security by providing access to and assuring application-level sharing of the TPM. A TPM is a microchip designed...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Trusted Platform Module Services, Trusted Platform Module Services Architecture, Trusted Platform Module, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Operating Systems, Software; White papers

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EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook: On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...; Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated): Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...; Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect: At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.; Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources; Videos 2008-07-25
iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available: The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3.Â This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility".Â The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...; Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer: Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer.Â From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame: Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...; Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
10 essential gadgets for students: I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...; Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon: Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...; Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge: So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up: Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...; Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Microsoft buys DATAllegro: Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...; Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24