Wednesday, December 19, 2007

And we thought the Guinness Brewery breach was bad...

CSO Online posted its top 10 security breaches of 2007. Not surprisingly at #1 was the "but isn't WEP secure?" incident at a major retailer...

WEP has been proven to be so insecure that any business who even thinks about using it should seriously question their security standards. With the advent of tools such as aircrack-ptw, it is now faster then ever to gain the encryption key from a packet capture.

How fun this might be!

Posted to Slashdot yesterday...Christmas day the Pen Testers cometh!

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Quick restaurant plug

Anyone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn should check out a great restaurant called Applewood. They have a great menu and the food is outstanding. Go, now!