http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP : Over the weekend, there was a notice about a security exploit that wasinserted into the install files for WordPress 211 Care to guesswhat version of WordPress this blog was running Don’t worry, I wasn’tabout to volunteer that information until I actually had the upgradetaken care of Upgrading WordPress ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69018.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69018.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - An illuminating study was performed by AV-Comparatives, comparing variouspopular antivirus products I haven’t had the opportunity to test outOneCare, Microsoft’s antivirus offering, but I assumed they hadreleased a product that was at least comparable to other mainstreamantivirus options Apparently, I shouldn’t assume ccording to thecomparison, Microsoft scored an abysmal ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69017.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69017.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - I had to perform my civic duty recently, and answer a summons for juryduty at my local courthouse Not many people are excited by thisinvitation, and I was no exception In fact, I had already used up myone automatic postponement, so I knew I wasn’t getting out of itFirst impressions: security at ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69016.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69016.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - Reading this post by Ryan Block brought back memories, both good and bad,about my own experiences working at CompUSA I would consider CompUSAmy first job in “IT,” even though the majority of it was so farremoved from anything technical it barely qualifies However, it wasmy first real exposure to ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69015.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69015.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - I’ve been having a little bit of a debate with a colleague of mineWalking into an environment with only the most basic security measuresin place patch management, AV, moderately restrictive firewallpolicies, where should you focus your time Obviously, the completepicture needs to be dealt with, but would you spend ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69014.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69014.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - I haven’t had too much use for FreeConferencecom, at least not so far Ionly tried it once to get an idea for how it worked, but I neverneeded to hold a large conference After all, I’m not on the list atleast not yet As far as I can tell, it’s a great ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69013.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69013.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - Sorry for the long lapse in posting, but I started a new job a few weeksago, and I’m still adjusting to the schedule I also don’t know whattheir blogging policy is, so I’m going to keep things vague for nowabout the company What I will tell you for now is ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69012.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69012.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - Well, there’s no turning back now I finally scheduled my CISSP examThat’s not to say I can’t reschedule, but I’m going to pretend that’snot an option so I don’t deviate from my study plan When I study foran exam I tend to go to all out, so I’ll be reading or ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69011.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69011.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - I’ve been meaning to write a post about passing the CISSP exam, but thetime to do so has eluded me, until now I received the results of theCISSP exam on October 11th, four days after I took the test in NewYork City Naturally, I was thrilled, and posted as such to the ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69010.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69010.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:24:52 - John Biasi, CISSP - Just when you though it was safe to have a device implanted in your bodyto deliver electric shocks to your heart, there’s this: A Heart DeviceIs Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks Barnaby J Feder, NY Times Itturns out that the risk of someone actually hacking a pacemaker israther small, since the researchers were ShareThishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69009.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69009.shtml