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Distributed Memory in Blackboard Systems

2008-07-26 07:01:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...memory model (i.e. multiple threads or processes using a single machines memory model In fact, there were many blackboard systems, some more than a decade old, that used a distributed memory data-model. What I think Paul meant to say, and my apologies to Paul for being so literal, is that blackboard systems originally used a single memory...
 
Tags: systems, blackboard systems architecture, blackboard, concurrent blackboard systems, blackboard architectures, blackboard system, memory, blackboard systems domain, blackboard systems
 
 
 
 
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Missing memory stick turns up five months later

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2008-01-23 16:44:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...memory stick was found last August (2007) in a Stockport (UK) car park which contained sensitive personal information belonging to Specsaver diabetic patients. The person that found the memory stick forgot she had it until "she read about recent data loss scandals". Neither the owner nor anyone else suspected or noticed it missing Reference...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security assessments, memory stick, security, specsaver diabetic patients, patients, computer memory stick, manchester patients
 
 
 
 
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Swedish Army Loses Classified Information on Memory Stick

2008-01-09 13:46:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...memory stick from an individual who discovered it in a public computer center in Stockholm An employee of the Armed Forces has reported that the misplaced USB memory stick belongs to him. The employee contacted his superior on Friday and divulged that he had forgotten the memory stick in a public computer. A preliminary technical...
 
Tags: stick, memory stick, public computer center, computer, public computer, information, armed forces, swedish army, stick belongs
 
 
 
 
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Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption

2008-06-09 00:36:29 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...memory corruption Ive recently become interested in measures that modern CPUs can take to prevent various types of memory corruption attacks. One such feature is the NX bit (as AMD calls it, XD is Intels term), which allows for memory pages to me marked as not executable. Microsoft Windows started using this ability with XP SP2 as part of...
 
Tags: dep, data execution prevention, memory corruption, windows, configure dep protection, configure, memory corruption attacks, vista, buffer overflows
 
 
 
 
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Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption

2008-06-09 00:36:29 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...memory corruption Iâve recently become interested in measures that modern CPUs can take to prevent various types of memory corruption attacks. One such feature is the NX bit (as AMD calls it, XD is Intelâs term), which allows for memory pages to me marked as not executable. Microsoft Windows started using this ability with XP SP2 as part of...
 
Tags: dep, data execution prevention, memory corruption, windows, configure dep protection, configure, memory corruption attacks, vista, buffer overflows
 
 
 
 
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Docs store unsecured patient data on memory sticks

2008-09-05 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
In one London hospital, 92 of 105 doctors surveyed carried memory sticks and 79 of the memory sticks held confidential patient information, but only five doctors had followed NHS rules and encrypted their data
 
Tags: memory sticks, doctors, data, nhs rules, london hospital
 
 
 
 
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Write-Once Read-Many Memory Cards

2008-07-28 05:04:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
SanDisk has introduced Write-Once Read-Many Memory (WORM) cards for forensic applications
 
Tags: write-once read-many memory, forensic applications, cards, sandisk, worm
 
 
 
 
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Bypassing Microsoft Vista's Memory Protection

2008-08-11 16:26:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system, an advance that many in the security community say will have far-reaching implications not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology industry thinks about attacks In a presentation at the Black Hat briefings, Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS)...
 
Tags: load, load arbitrary content, content, net objects, black hat briefings, browsers, memory protection safeguards, data execution prevention, entire technology industry
 
 
 
 
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UK Ministry of Defense Loses Memory Stick with Military Secrets

2008-09-16 06:21:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...memory sticks, some containing secret information, have been lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence since 2004, it was reported earlier this year Some 26 of those disappeared this year == including three which contained information classified as "secret", and 19 which were "restricted I've written about this general problem before: we're...
 
Tags: secret information, secret, information, portable backup drive, usb memory sticks, professional life, 3rd battalion, enormous amount, copy
 
 
 
 
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Dell System with Useless Memory