Mandrakesoft in Bid For EAL5 Certification
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Linux vendor Mandrakesoft is teaming with a consortium of European partners in an effort to win Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5), the highest security certification for defense and other highly sensitive areas of governmental IT
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World's greatest LAN party is go A UK defence initiative hopes to link up military flight simulators in the US and UK , allowing British pilots to train for complex multi-aircraft missions together with their American counterparts across the pond.â¦
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Electronic Arts ERTS.O said on   Monday that it had bought Sweden's Digital Illusions CE, or   DICE, known for the Battlefield game franchise, for about 175.5   million SEK ($24 mln).
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With the closure of IETF&#39;s MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft&#39;s Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues
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TechWeb - Mandrakesoft releases the latest version of its Linux operating system.
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This middleware offering is touted as the first open source application server to achieve compatibility certification for the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4 by passing the 23,000 tests of the test compatibility kit.
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Deal will allow companies to digitally authenticate PDFs.
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Electronic document giant Adobe Systems says it will partner with digital certificate company GeoTrust to provide technology to allow documents that use Adobe&#39;s popular Portable Document Format to be digitally certified.
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Company plans to help software companies certify products for SuSE Linux operating system.
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Tycho:  I should have all the science lined up by the end of the week, ready to stuff into the piano black lozenge I've obtained to celebrate my return to personal computing.  Wish me luck; I've never before had the opportunity to fry four processors at once.       I know things.  Specifically, things that may be of interest to you.  For example, I know if playing Eye of Judgment online is an onerous as it might seem.  It is not!  I cannot express my relief.    Well, let's try.  In my last, vast expose, I broke down a card's unique language and expressed some misgivings about online play - ultimately just accepting it, because what they're trying to do is so weird that there's no prior art.  Essentially, you "register" your thirty card deck with the system itself, where it is stored and named for future use.  This process is extremely straightforward:  it is simply a matter of you laying your cards anywhere on the mat, a few at a time.  It will probably take two minutes if you really keep on it.  Then, you jump online, choose what nation you want to play for, and track down a partner.  At this point, the game will "draw" you your five card hand by showing you the card art onscreen.  You get one Mulligan (or redraw), but if you like your hand you move into the game proper.  We laid out our deck by element, face up, and this smoothed the turn to turn process considerably.      In the build we have, and I hope this is changed for release, it shows you these cards in a single file line without their name or text - just the art.  Once you got familiar with these images, slightly modified from their card format, it's pretty quick - but the names should be displayed on this screen.  You can use the controller to pull up the names, but let's be serious - at no point should the player be forced to interact with a mundane controller once the game is underway.     You should know that the game really wants a well-lit environment.  You don't need a flare gun or anything, but we didn't have what we needed before and certain squares would slow down the game flow with partial reads that would only resolve after several attempts and minute card adjustments.  I should state that here in the office, we removed all the overhead lights, installing a single track of illumination that we point at the ceiling, where lights used to be.  We tend to transform any place we live into a cave.  So, our scenario might be somewhat atypical.    Also, I know if playing Rock Band with all the instruments off of a USB hub is onerous.  You will be happy to know that it is not - we played said instruments spread out on an actual stage, and found it more than satifactory.  The reality is that the drum kit already needs its own wire, so it isn't as though the future had actually arrived anyway.  Plus, the mic isn't wireless either. This makes the contrived brouhaha over wired guitars a fairly transparent traffic ploy.    This is a matter quite apart from Microsoft's reticence to play ball with unique, third party hardware.  And when I say "play ball," I'm taking about the shakedown operation they've got going licensing their wireless technology, which either makes products for their system more expensive or (in the salient case of Rock Band) results in them bundling a wired controller for the same price as a wireless one on a competitor's system.  This is the last holiday they can get away with this sort of thing...  right?
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Representatives of the CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) project, which launched in December 2005, reported to Black Hat DC attendees that progress continues on the project. The DHS-sponsored effort is currently sifting through "mountains" of vuln data, and they're in touch with the affected companies.
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Mandrakesoft has introduced Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official with the promise that its latest distribution provides extended support for mobile devices, better hardware compatibility, and major application upgrades.
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Perhaps Dan Rather should look into a new service to be announced Tuesday by Adobe Systems. The company&#39;s Certified Document Service verifies the authenticity of documents saved in Adobe&#39;s PDF, or portable document format, by adding digital signatures.
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A consortium of European companies, including Linux-distributor Mandrakesoft, has been awarded a three-year, $8.6 million contract to boost security of the open-source Linux operating system, the companies said Thursday.
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EJBCA is an enterprise class Certificate Authority using J2EE technology. EJBCA builds on the J2EE platform to create a robust, high performance, platform independent, flexible, and component based CA to be used standalone or integrated in any J2EE app.   We are proud to announce EJBCA 3.5.0, with enhanced features all over, both enterprise class stuff, and simpler stuff.  This is a major release with many new interesting features and framework improvements. Read the changelog for details. Notable changes in no specific order:  - PKCS#11 interface to HSMs, support for Utimaco CryptoServer, and improved auto-activation of HSMs. - Much enhanced Webservice API for administration. - Import CA function supports HSM, possible to create initial CA on HSM and initial admin on smart card. - Soft CA keystores uses same framework as HSMs, possible to give private password to every soft CA. - New options for specifying certificate validity, per end entity, fixed date etc. - Possible to keep configuration/modifications in an external directory. - Possible to use different profiles in CMP RA mode. - you can now require approvals for revocation. - Support multiple email altNames in admin-GUI. - Option to choose reverse DN for a CA. - Root-less install, using custom SSL truststore for JBoss/Tomcat. - Lots of other small fixes and improvements, 69 issues resolved.   For upgrade instructions, please se UPGRADE.  Because there are binary files in EJBCA_HOME/lib and many massive changes there is no patch file for upgrading EJBCA 3.4.x to 3.5.0. Use the full package from EJBCA 3.5.0 and follow the upgrade instructions.  Changes: ------- New Feature     * [ECA-81] - Editing validity per End Entity     * [ECA-115] - Serial Number Check     * [ECA-138] - HardToken PIN data should be encrypted in database     * [ECA-249] - Possible to configure specific validity dates in certificate profiles     * [ECA-398] - Support multiple email altnames in admin-GUI     * [ECA-414] - Possibility to choose reverse DN for a CA     * [ECA-419] - Improve CA softs security to use individual passwords     * [ECA-470] - PKCS11 tokens for new CA and support for Utimaco CryptoServer (using pkcs11)     * [ECA-472] - Custom Logging     * [ECA-480] - Import Hard Token Data in CLI     * [ECA-489] - New ant argument that outputs the version number of the EJBCA installation.     * [ECA-505] - Enable download of CA certificate as jks-file from Basic Functions in Admin GUI.     * [ECA-516] - Present warning in the Admin GUI when JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files isn't used.     * [ECA-520] - Experimental reporting functionality using JasperReports     * [ECA-526] - Possible to install with initial AdminCA on HSM     * [ECA-527] - Possible to retrieve entity certs with CLI     * [ECA-545] - Allow initial superadmin enroll on smartcard     * [ECA-573] - Root-less install, use custom SSL truststore for JBoss/Tomcat  Improvement     * [ECA-35] - make better looking public enroll pages     * [ECA-232] - When listing administrators in access rights, make the link clickable     * [ECA-291] - Option to specify certificate validity begin time drift     * [ECA-331] - Hide HardToken Puk Data in View HardToken page     * [ECA-426] - Include nonce in requests from OCSP client     * [ECA-461] - Build script does not check for actual version of java that is used.     * [ECA-462] - Possible to keep configuration/modifications in an external directory     * [ECA-465] - Possible to use different profiles in CMP RA mode     * [ECA-468] - Create a PKCS7 with the web service interface to import it in IE     * [ECA-471] - New Calls in the EJBCA Web Services interface     * [ECA-473] - Interface of UserDataSources improved for support of UserData Deletion     * [ECA-475] - Improved functionality in Extended CMS Service     * [ECA-482] - Move scep servlet to its own web application     * [ECA-494] - Better default datasource for ScepRAServer in External RA     * [ECA-495] - ScepRAServer in External RA will process the same message until it is approved     * [ECA-502] - build.xml should use $JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool instead of first one in path, if available.     * [ECA-507] - Add description on UPN field.     * [ECA-508] - When using Validity Override, don't allow validity to start before current time.     * [ECA-509] - When using Validity Override, don't allow validity to to extend beyond the validity of the certificate profile     * [ECA-510] - AD Publisher should use different container for certificateRevocationList     * [ECA-513] - Not consequent text in profiles menu choices     * [ECA-514] - Java exception when removing newly added service     * [ECA-518] - Support new key purpose CAKEYPURPOSE_HARDTOKENENCRYPT     * [ECA-531] - Improve Approvals with multiple steps of non-executable approvals     * [ECA-532] - Support Approvals for the getHardTokenData and genTokenCertificates call     * [ECA-536] - Import CA function supports HSM CAs     * [ECA-537] - Require approvals for revocation     * [ECA-572] - Confusing text in conf/ejbca.properties.sample     * [ECA-581] - Bad presentation of approvalId, sometimes it is displayed with - sign in notification     * [ECA-584] - Not possible to use comma in CA DN when creating CA  Bug     * [ECA-412] - Try to create service after re-deploy gives exception     * [ECA-413] - When choosing "Hard Token Type", all previously made "Settings" are deleted.     * [ECA-443] - If you execute ./ejbca.sh batch in "ejbca/bin" the script creates ejbca/bin/p12 and puts the new p12:s in there instad of ejbca/p12     * [ECA-460] - Get certificate chain link in public enroll pages does not work when CA is signed by external Root.     * [ECA-467] - Private EC keys report different algorithm after application server restart     * [ECA-501] - Weblogic throws TransactionRolledBackLocalException on duplicate log lines     * [ECA-512] - Java exception when editing services     * [ECA-525] - ExtRATestClient not working according to doc     * [ECA-539] - Removing any but last of dynamic fields in an End Entity Profile generates errors when creating an end entity.     * [ECA-548] - Automatic token activation fails when using nCipher HSM     * [ECA-549] - No space triming in DN of a CA     * [ECA-556] - Security: XSS possibility on public web     * [ECA-559] - Autoactivate of Hard CA tokens does not show as active in Admin-GUI     * [ECA-560] - Renew of keys for soft token CA must not regenerate encryption keys     * [ECA-561] - CA levels displayed incorrectly in Basic Functions at depth > 2     * [ECA-571] - PKCS#11 times out after some time on Utimaco     * [ECA-574] - Wrong validity of created CAs, maximum two years     * [ECA-583] - Bug in advances access rules view, UserDataSources displayed id instead of name i rule  Task     * [ECA-491] - Remove support for JDK 1.4     * [ECA-538] - Remove CA import restrictions depending on keyusage field in CA-cert.     * [ECA-576] - Remove support for JBoss
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IBM&#39;s $5 billion acquisition of business intelligence software vendor Cognos took a step forward on Thursday as European regulators gave their approval to the deal.After examining the acquisition, the European Commission said in a statement that it &quot;would not give rise to competition concerns, since the parties&#39; combined market share would be moderate.&quot;IBM announced its intention to buy Cognos, based in Ottawa, in November, saying it hoped to combine the Cognos software with IBM&#39;s back-end database products. They hope to close the deal by the end of March, but there are still a few regulatory requirements to be met, including the approval of Canada&#39;s minister of industry.Business intelligence software is used to analyze data from different sources within a company and help management get a better picture of the business. Several business intelligence software vendors have been acquired recently, including&#160;Hyperion, purchased by Oracle, and&#160;Business Objects, purchased by SAP.IBM to date has partnered with business intelligence software vendors, providing the back-end infrastructure components. But changing customer demands sparked its interest in Cognos, according to Ambuj Goyal, general manager of information management in IBM&#39;s software group and a key player in the Cognos deal.&quot;Now, more and more clients are saying, &#39;We are not an integration technology business, we are in a business-outcome business. You do the integration,&#39;&quot; he said in a recent interview. &quot;More and more clients are not doing best-of-breed purchases.&quot;(Chris Kanaracus in Boston contributed to this story.)&#160;
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'Unfair and misleading' Some of the biggest software companies are facing possible investigation by the UK's Office of Fair Trading because their licensing agreements are unfair.â¦