The Register Security

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:04:23 GMT
Green Hills spins out military Integrity for masses

An OS that secures OSes

The military has always had better security than we can get on our computers, and Green Hills Software, a provider of a real-time, secure operating system called Integrity, wants to change that. To that end, the company has spun its Integrity operating system into a wholly owned subsidiary called Integrity Global Security and has set it loose with the job of becoming a kind of security abstraction layer for Windows, Linux, and Solaris guest operating systems on x64 iron.…

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:28:38 GMT
Third ex-NASA Ames worker jailed for child porn

Yes, third

A third former worker at the NASA Ames Research Center in California was sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for using a government computer to download child pornography.…

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:02:22 GMT
Microsoft to embed RSA data cop in Windows

Rights management deal

Microsoft is adopting technology from EMC's RSA security division for Windows to police data and prevent loss and theft of information.…

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:21:08 GMT
Booby-trapped emails fly back into fashion

Trojan assault wave takes many guises

Malicious email attachments disguised as airline ticket receipts are being spammed across the internet as part of a new attack. The assault is the latest in a series of booby-trapped email attachments, which have seemingly become fashionable among VXers again, after many months of playing second-fiddle to website attacks.…

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:35:00 GMT
Firefox plug-in Trojan harvests logins

Spy on the wire

Virus writers have latched onto the popularity of Firefox with a new variant on the established practice of stealing online banking passwords.…


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