Locking Up Linux, Creating a Cryptobook:Tom’s Hardware has a nice overview about some of the latest ways to secure your data looking specifically at open source solutions that wont lock down your credit card. Since many people presented performance issues for why they don’t implement encryption there was also special attention given to how well your system will perform after implementation of encryption. From the article: “At least where LUKS is concerned, performance is hardly an issue – one must expect to pay some penalty for additional encryption facilities that handle unencrypted data transparently. All of these solutions are simple to set up and use on a daily basis, but LUKS is portable across Windows and Linux platforms.”
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Atheros’s CTO, a blunt-spoken fellow, sent Krebs this statement: “Atheros has not been contacted by SecureWorks and Atheros has not received any code or other proof demonstrating a security vulnerability in our chips or wireless drivers used in any laptop computers. We believe SecureWorks’ modified statement and the flaws revealed in its presentation and methodology demonstrates only a security vulnerability in the wireless USB adapter they used in the demo, not in the laptop’s internal Wi-Fi card.” Apple said yesterday that the researchers had provided no information that showed an exploit was possible, and that the demonstration used a third-party Wi-Fi card and driver; the researchers updated their site to reflect this…. Krebs writes, “Apple’s revised statement today made it clear that the company had not received any evidence from SecureWorks to back up the claim that the Macbook drivers are indeed vulnerable.”… Rather that it’s, in fact, all too likely that a Wi-Fi driver could allow an exploit to happen–but that under the guise of preventing exploits in the wild that it’s too easy to take that general case and believe that it’s applicable when we can’t see and touch it.
Securing Wimax Networks:. Dark Reading explores the security of Wimax, and notes that Sprint will have its hands busy when it comes to locking down its next wireless broadband network. “I expect we’ll see similar problems with [WiMax] as we’ve seen with other devices, namel..
