Stuff for the New MacBook

• Turn on Firewall
• Software Update
• downloads.its.psu.edu
  • Oracle Collaboration Suite Calendar
  • Cisco VPN
  • Microsoft Office Professional 2004
• Firefox
• Remote Desktop Connection for Mac
• Google Earth
• Flip4Mac
• Spanning Sync Trial
• MailTags
• DoubleCommand

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Some People Still Haven’t Heard: WEP is Dead!

Page one in the Wall Street Journal today:

The biggest known theft of credit-card numbers in history began two summers ago outside a Marshalls discount clothing store near St. Paul, Minn.

There, investigators now believe, hackers pointed a telescope-shaped antenna toward the store and used a laptop computer to decode data streaming through the air between hand-held price-checking devices, cash registers and the store’s computers. That helped them hack into the central database of Marshalls’ parent, TJX Cos. in Framingham, Mass., to repeatedly purloin information about customers.

The $17.4-billion retailer’s wireless network had less security than many people have on their home networks, and for 18 months the company — which also owns T.J. Maxx, Home Goods and A.J. Wright — had no idea what was going on…

As the stolen TJX numbers were being used in Florida, the company was getting a stern warning about its poor security from a routine audit. The auditor told the company last Sept. 29 that it wasn’t complying with many of the requirements imposed by Visa and MasterCard, according to a person familiar with the report. The auditor’s report cited the outmoded WEP encryption and missing software patches and firewalls.

Sad… Frightening and sad.

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All your lolcats are belong to us. =^_^=

Creating yet another copy-protection scheme: Several years and millions of dollars.

Having your new “unbreakable” protection completely cracked within weeks of it’s unveiling by a small number of unpaid people: Priceless.

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