Securology

(noun) securology. Latin: se cura logia
Literally translated: the study of being without care or worry

Friday, September 28, 2007

Thomas Ptacek on DMA, Virtualization, and Nate Lawson

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Thomas Ptacek makes an important comparison between network security and memory/hardware resource allocation, especially in terms of virtu...

Code Review vs. Application Layer Firewall

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In a recent sales attempt, I received a whitepaper (warning: PDF) from Web Application Layer Firewall vendor Imperva entitled: "The N...
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Nate Lawson on DMA/IOMMU

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In the past few days, Nate Lawson has a couple interesting articles on PC Memory Architecture and Protecting Memory from DMA using IOMMU ...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

More comments on the PDF vulnerability

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Matasano has some comments on the recent PDF vulnerability : "Modern PDF Readers do crazy things. Like embed remote web pages. T...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Still more separation of code and data

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Separating code from data is a HUGE problem (possibly a root of all remote code execution evil) . Here's more info, some of it new, s...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Symantec Considers White Lists

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After years of attempting to convince every Symantec SE I met to drop the Sisyphean virus signature database model, it appears that Symantec...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Trust at the foundational levels: IOMMU & DMA

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IOMMU , or Input Output Memory Management Unit, will likely play a large role in the security of future operating systems. If IOMMU does no...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Se Cura: Free of Care or Worry

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" Secure " derives from the Latin words se , meaning "without", and cura , meaning "care" or "worry...

The Woes of TOR

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I predicted this a year or so ago (when I first heard of TOR ), but as predictions go, they don't have value if they aren't publishe...
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Separation of Code and Data

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One of the most surprising things for a savvy information security practitioner is the continued prevalence of intermingling of code and dat...
Saturday, September 1, 1984

About this blog...

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As it says above (and below for posterity), the intention of this blog is to look at the scientific aspects of security, namely "inform...
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