Compromised a WordPress server

Sinauw, WordPress.com, one
of the most popular
blog service,
experienced security
incidents. Some of
their servers
compromised.

This was disclosed
founder of WordPress, Matt
Mullenweg, in his
official blog.
"Automattic (the
company behind
WordPress), so
victims of burglary
low-level alias root
in some of our
servers," writes
Matt, as quoted on
Thursday
(14/04/2011).
According to him,
there is the
possibility of any
existing data on a
server that has
successfully
accessed by the
offender.

"We're researching
and reviewing logs
and records the data
from it to see the
extent to which
information is
exposed, and we
secure the re-used
paths," he said.

Matt estimate the
source code that is in
the server that has
been copied.
Although WordPress
is Open Source, Matt
said there are things
in the server of
sensitive Automattic
code and partners.
Matt's suggestion for
users of WordPress,
as he wrote, is just
what they had
previously
suggested. This
includes
strengthening
passwords, use
different passwords
for every site you
use and change the
password that is still
the same.

"Our investigation is
still ongoing and
takes time. As I've
said, we took
decisive steps to
prevent similar
incidents in the
future," he insisted.

Sinauw News

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Norton 360 Version 5.0, Complete Package from Symantec

Sinauw- Symantec
Corp. launched its
Norton 360 Version
5.0, computer
security package
that staying
digadang as a
complete program
package, fastest,
and lightest for the
fight against crime
in cyberspace.

"We've designed the
latest version of
Norton 360, a
package of
programs 'all-in-one'
easy to use,
providing the
strongest
protection, and will
not slow the user's
computer," said
Janice Chaffin,
president of the
Consumer Business
Unit, Symantec, in a
press release ,
Thursday.

Latest protection
package from
Symantec that
became important
after Symantec in
2010 found 286
million different
threats, so that on
average there are 9
new threats every
second that targets
both consumer
computers in the
enterprise and
government.
In Symantec's latest
product that
provides three
different superior
features. First
'Insight', a security
technology that
utilizes the pattern
of adoption of
software
anonymously than
175 million users of
Symantec to
automatically
identify and block
new malicious
software.

The second feature
is the behavior-
based protection
'SONAR 3' that
monitors suspicious
behavior from
various applications
to rapidly identify
new attacks,
'crimeware', and
other threats
designed to avoid
traditional detection
systems.
Last 'Power Eraser
Norton and Norton
Bootable Recovery
Tool' is a tool to
aggressively detect
and repair damage
from malicious
attacks on computer
users so customers
can clean up a
previously infected
computer.

Norton 360 version
5.0 can be installed
up to three PCs and
will be available in
Indonesia beginning
next April. The
software is offered
at a price of up to
Rp539.000
Rp305.000.

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CEM Systems Launch New Security Solution

Sinauw- CEM 2000
Lite AC sytem, has
just launched its
latest security
solutions that are
reliable, ie DESFire 2-
door controller
solution.

For Indonesia, in
collaboration with
CEM Lite Sytem
Datascrip to provide
new solutions to
problems that often
occur card cloning.
sPass DESFire smart
card reader is used
as a liaison between
EDCM 350 which use
high encrypted RS
485 with sPass
reader. Encrypted
communications
technology that has
been owned CEM
sPass Lite AC 2000
makes them better
readers because
they could not do
card cloning, of
course, this could
increase the safety
with economical
cost.
AC CEM 2000 Lite
sPass reader is
contactless smart
card reader with
triple DES which is
available as a reader
with keypad and
non-keypad.

Yenni Suhartanto,
Marketing Manager
of Datascrip, in
Jakarta, Thursday
(03/10/2011),
explained that eDCM
350 has features as
intelligent database
for offline card
validation. If in the
offline, eDCM 350 can
be used for 200
thousand cards.
eDCM can be
configured to
support 2 sPass
reader on two
different doors with
an additional exit
push button, also can
be configured to
support 2 sPass
reader in a door to
control access to
exit / entry. eDCM
350 is available in 2
options, namely a
serial cable or IP.
AC CEM 2000 Lite
also launched
contacless DESFire
13.56 MHz smart
cards to eliminate
the possibility of
card cloning.
"Each card has a
different encrypted
codes are stored in
the card with high
security. Smart card
can store up to 28
security applications
such as access to the
control or the means
to pay to eat at
vending machines,"
explained Sylvia
Lionggosari, Director
of Datascrip.
AC CEM 2000 Lite is
part of Tyco's
security products,
which provides
advanced security
management
solutions, among
which are access
control, ID badging,
alarm monitoring,
people counting
system and card
reader.

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