On January 6, the US National Security Agency (NSA) released the first public release of the Security Enhanced (SE) Android Project, a program designed to find and plug security holes and risks in the Android flavor of Linux.
SE Android is based on the NSA’s SELinux, first released in 2000.
SELinux started as a string of security patches to the Linux kernel along with a few utilities to help with access control and damage confinement.
One of the...
MAC versus DAC in SELinux
InfosecIsland: Some system administrators do not understand Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and how it interacts with Discretionary Access Control (DAC) in Linux.
NSA Extends Access Control to Network Storage
The National Security Agency is leading an effort to extend its access control work into the arena of network file storage. The effort involves integrating NSA's Flask mandatory access...
What Is Anonymous?
The National Security Agency director has privately warned that Anonymous could knock out power grids in the U.S. within two years.
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