Topsight.netDiscussions on computers and beyondNSA information assurance operating system guides- March 19, 2007 The NSA has published a number of security guidelines for Apple OS X, Windows 2K, XP, 2003 and Sun Solaris 8 & 9. The Guides are about as detailed as you could expect from a government agency of the size and class of the NSA (extremely detailed). See: http:www.nsa.govsnacdownloads_os.cfmMenuID=scg10.3.1.1http://www.topsight.net/article.php/20070319171333204 Apple airport Extreme Update 2007-002 Breaks WPA- March 11, 2007 March 8th 2007 Apple realeased Airport Extreme Update 2007-002. It has been my personal experience that this update, when applied to an intel core duo mac book pro will break WPA encryption.This causes loss of network connectivity. Connections to non-WPA based network with the patch applied functions normally.http://www.topsight.net/article.php/20070311003642430 Wordpress source code compromised to enable remote code execution- March 4, 2007 According to Ivan Fratric of http:ifsec.blogspot.com: While assessing the security of WordPress, a popular blog creation software, I have discovered that it's source code has recently been compromised by a third party in order to enable remote command execution on the machines running affected versions. The compromised files are wp-includesfeed.php and wp-includestheme.php. The following code has been added: in wp-includesfeed.php function comment_text_phpfilter(&36;filterdata)...http://www.topsight.net/article.php/20070304084612250 |