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Intel's vPro chip boosts encryption features

By Matt Hines, InfoWorld

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=10893&pagtype=all

Intel is preparing to introduce new security features in its next-generation vPro microprocessors which will improve encryption support while making systems easier to install and manage.

Built under the code-name 'Danbury', the embedded security features - planned to be introduced in early 2008 - promise to improve the efficacy of commercial encryption tools via onboard integration hooks for the programs, and by adding a new layer of hard drive protection when vPro-powered computers are asleep or otherwise powered-down.

Earlier this year, Intel also announced new features that extend malware behavior-detection further onto the CPU level and wall off virtualised software systems from attack, along with new tools meant to help desktops communicate directly with so-called network access control (NAC) systems, which are used for device configuration monitoring and network authentication.
 

gomorrhan

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I'm not sure it's OSA, it could just be a psycho ex-girlfriend, but someone has been intercepting my email, perhaps for a few months now, and is using the information gathered from those emails to spook people I'm newly meeting, socially. As far as I know, it hasn't affected anything else, and I think OSA would probably get more invasive than this person did, but it happened for sure, last night. A copy of an email I'd written earlier that night, with three specific addressees, was intercepted and copied, then edited, adding inflammatory accusations about me. If the person was just the crazy ex-girlfriend, she sure had forgotten a lot of her own personal information, and conflated a lot of things that were unrelated. I think it was probably OSA, because they were using a friend's handle, but a different email address, and because their knowledge of things seemed to be wrong, while based on things that were "right". In other words, either deliberate or stupid distortions as well as blatant lies.

Ex-girlfriends are capable of such viciousness, for sure, but the one's I had simply weren't that computer savvy. I suspect a more organized hack, and the MO of OSA, accusing me of having all kinds of crimes (which I don't), and claiming I'd been diagnosed as a "sociopath" in 1991. The only thing I've ever been diagnosed of is depression, and that was in 1997. However, I was Declared Suppressive in 1991, and some idiot scientologist might consider that those words wouldn't make sense, but "sociopath" might be how they're describing "suppressives" now.
 

Alanzo

Bardo Tulpa
Kevin -

Look at post #12 in this thread.

There's a FAQ in packet sniffing there. And then a discussion of packet sniffing ensues a little later.
 

gomorrhan

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It's not to find out where I am, that's for sure, Lulu. In my case, it was quite deliberate effort to capture an email, find out it's contents, and then use them against myself and people connected to me. This falls in line with OSA, but also with other vicious types who are highly motivated to hurt you

It's particularly interesting to me, because I have an ex-girlfriend who might be that interested (I tossed her out after she stayed out partying with undesirables for three straight days without a phone-call or email), but her interest and motivation wouldn't overcome her total lack of understanding computers.

To me, it looks like someone has been monitoring my communications for about four or five months, and decided to show their hand now, although they may not have been expecting it to get back to me. However, they used a "cover", using my ex-girlfriend's "handle", but not her normal email address. Relations between myself and this ex were good up until last night, when she apparently decided to sabotage my imminent travel plans and tenuous new relationships by defamation and mischaracterization of intercepted and then retransmitted emails (edited), including pictures.

This shows a lot more sophistication than my ex-girlfriend has with computers. She's a club-dweller, mostly a party-girl, and I often had to show her how to use the computer to get it to do what she wanted.
 

alex

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It's not to find out where I am, that's for sure, Lulu. In my case, it was quite deliberate effort to capture an email, find out it's contents, and then use them against myself and people connected to me. This falls in line with OSA, but also with other vicious types who are highly motivated to hurt you

It's particularly interesting to me, because I have an ex-girlfriend who might be that interested (I tossed her out after she stayed out partying with undesirables for three straight days without a phone-call or email), but her interest and motivation wouldn't overcome her total lack of understanding computers.

To me, it looks like someone has been monitoring my communications for about four or five months, and decided to show their hand now, although they may not have been expecting it to get back to me. However, they used a "cover", using my ex-girlfriend's "handle", but not her normal email address. Relations between myself and this ex were good up until last night, when she apparently decided to sabotage my imminent travel plans and tenuous new relationships by defamation and mischaracterization of intercepted and then retransmitted emails (edited), including pictures.

This shows a lot more sophistication than my ex-girlfriend has with computers. She's a club-dweller, mostly a party-girl, and I often had to show her how to use the computer to get it to do what she wanted.

Are you using a wireless connection?

alex
 

alex

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No. Surfboard cable modem.

Ex girlfriend hacked your password?

You know of course that cable is a shared resource unlike dsl....

All the traffic in one neighborhood is on the rf of the coax.....

The cable company sets the cable modem to just get yours according to the id of the cable modem.

DSL is more secure.

alex
 

gomorrhan

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Ex girlfriend couldn't have done it without a lot of help: either she's gone from being a sales-girl/club-dancer to a hacker, or something else is going on.
 

gomorrhan

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I haven't caught anyone following me, but I wouldn't put it past anyone. I'm not worried about my own safety, I'm pretty good at taking care of me. What I'm concerned with is the privacy of people who are communicating with me, and the damage that could be done to them by ill-intentioned folks who can't hurt me directly.

How do you hurt the man who's lost everything?

Give him back something broken.
 

Terril park

Sponsor
I'm not sure it's OSA, it could just be a psycho ex-girlfriend, but someone has been intercepting my email, perhaps for a few months now, and is using the information gathered from those emails to spook people I'm newly meeting, socially. As far as I know, it hasn't affected anything else, and I think OSA would probably get more invasive than this person did, but it happened for sure, last night. A copy of an email I'd written earlier that night, with three specific addressees, was intercepted and copied, then edited, adding inflammatory accusations about me. If the person was just the crazy ex-girlfriend, she sure had forgotten a lot of her own personal information, and conflated a lot of things that were unrelated. I think it was probably OSA, because they were using a friend's handle, but a different email address, and because their knowledge of things seemed to be wrong, while based on things that were "right". In other words, either deliberate or stupid distortions as well as blatant lies.

Ex-girlfriends are capable of such viciousness, for sure, but the one's I had simply weren't that computer savvy. I suspect a more organized hack, and the MO of OSA, accusing me of having all kinds of crimes (which I don't), and claiming I'd been diagnosed as a "sociopath" in 1991. The only thing I've ever been diagnosed of is depression, and that was in 1997. However, I was Declared Suppressive in 1991, and some idiot scientologist might consider that those words wouldn't make sense, but "sociopath" might be how they're describing "suppressives" now.

Cant see you as being OSA fodder. Having quite correctly expanded your dynamics among the female population of California, one might expect the odd
psycho girlfriend.

Those guys who havn't encountered such , are not doing enough on the 2D
IMO.

Of course cute pretty psycho chicks can easily wrap their fingers around
computer geeks.

Hell! Even I'm available for that and I don't know one end of the keyboard from another!

So rest easy Kevin.

Recomend you suggest they get into that great self improvement TV series, " Beauty and the Geek".

You could split the winnings.
 

programmer_guy

True Ex-Scientologist
Tuesday December 18, 2007

Another Massive Apple Security Update

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/12/another_massive_apple_security.php

Apple has released two updates covering 41 different vulnerabilities. Specifically, 41 separate CVE entries. The impact of the vulnerabilities varies, but many can result in arbitrary code execution.

The main update, numbered 2007-009, brings Mac OS up to versions 10.4.11 and 10.5.1. A separate update for the Safari beta for Windows XP and Vista is available for a Safari vulnerability that is addressed for Mac OS in the main update.

Several of the addressed vulnerabilities are in 3rd party products, such as the Flash browser plug-in, that are bundled with Mac OS. Others are with standard UNIX programs (including, in this case, GNU Tar) that are addressed individually by UNIX distributors. Several vulnerabilities were in language environments distributed with Mac OS, including Perl, Ruby and Python. And many are in Actual Mac OS programs, including the Software Update program itself.
 

programmer_guy

True Ex-Scientologist
Monday December 17, 2007

New Norton 360 Gets Tough With Tracking Cookies

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/12/new_norton_360_gets_tough_with.php

Tracking cookies have a controversial history. Some security software calls them "spyware" because they can be used (duh!) to track what sites you are going to and in what order. Many other products and observers (me included) acknowledge the fact, but call them essentially harmless.

Today Symantec announced a beta of a new version of Norton 360. There's lots new in it, but one minor and interesting change is that it changes its approach to tracking cookies. They have added a new signature system for them so that they can decide which are the bad ones and which are the innocuous ones (presumably like amazon.com, wsj.com and anything you pick up on this site), and block the bad ones accordingly. The default—for unrecognized cookies—is to let it pass. Version 1 of Norton 360 didn't block or delete any of these.

This new feature isn't exactly a major advance in security and it adds a new research and maintenance burden on Symantec, so I find it surprising. They must have had a lot of customer requests for it. I suppose I'd rather have it than not have it.
 

gomorrhan

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You can't see a declared suppressive who posts to critical websites as OSA fodder? Certainly, I'm not competing for their preclears. This presents the theory that the ex-girlfriend has developed skills that would put her in-demand in IT departments, but she maintains a questionable employment status and can't afford her rent.

Strikes me as odd. Perhaps she has a new BF who is computer savvy, but I'm still betting on OSA, because no one else has the motive or MO.
 

programmer_guy

True Ex-Scientologist
Kevin,

Your experience is definitely weird but not unusual for a critic of CofS.
The CofS pulls this crap from time-to-time.
 

programmer_guy

True Ex-Scientologist
CERTStation Radio Podcast for Week 50 of 2007
Published on December 18th

http://83363-web01.pluggd.com/audio/channels/hdaar_security_radio/episodes/3llmj

News Topics
DoS vulnerabilities found in Nokia N95 and Cisco 7940 IP phones.

AMD issues patch to fix Barcelona Bug Flaw leads to backdoor in HP Compaq laptops.

QuickTime update fixes security issues.

Hackers launch major attack in four countries.

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Some comments from me:

The AMD TLB (Translation Look-aside Buffer - used to implement virtual memory) flaw has also been
mentioned by OS software developers like Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD unix).

Theo has mentioned that the Intel Core 2 CPU has some bugs also:
http://kerneltrap.org/Theo_de_Raadt?page=1
 
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Terril park

Sponsor
You can't see a declared suppressive who posts to critical websites as OSA fodder? Certainly, I'm not competing for their preclears. This presents the theory that the ex-girlfriend has developed skills that would put her in-demand in IT departments, but she maintains a questionable employment status and can't afford her rent.

Strikes me as odd. Perhaps she has a new BF who is computer savvy, but I'm still betting on OSA, because no one else has the motive or MO.

Well COS did a deal with Sarge yes? No attacking each other or using each others names. So targetting you, a metapsychologist, seems at odds with this.

Well one can't nessesarily expect logic from COS nessessarily. Or from ex GF apparently.

Whatever's going on its clearly nonsense.
 
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