Re: Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

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On 12/06/2012 09:05 PM, David McGuffey wrote:
> Moat of the advanced persistent threats (APT) are initiated via e-mail. 
> Opening an attachment or clicking on a web link starts the process.
> 
> Why isn't Firefox and Evolution confined with SELinux policy in a way that
> APT can't damage the rest of the system? Why are we not sandboxing these
> two apps with SELinux?
> 
> I've discovered some guidance for sandboxing Firefox using the 'sandbox' 
> command.  Once I test it a bit, I'll post the results back here.  Seems to
> me that if this works, it should be the default.
> 
> DaveM
> 
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Very difficult to sandbox thunderbird and firefox.  But sandbox tool actually
works well for sandboxing viewers of downloaded data.  I sandbox all content
that will be viewed by evince and libreoffice.
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