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!

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!

NOOOO!!!!

Found this article today on Bruce Schneier's blog and wanted to share it:
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ireland.com - Breaking News - My goodness, thief drives off with 450 kegs

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/1129/breaking41.htm

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Sounds easy doesn't it? I wonder how many other breweries have such lax security standards...

To my dismay...

None of the spare Linksys units I have at home are supported with OpenWRT. After a bit of browsing I found the units I have are really REALLY old and the CPU is an ARM S3C4510 (manufactured by Samsung). Oh well, guess I'll have to by some WRT54G's! Hope the wife understands... :)

Time off

Well, after some time off (got married, had honeymoon) I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things. Work has been busy too, and end of year is typically crazy. This year is no different.

I hope to start hacking away at some old Linksys devices I found lying around my apartment. OpenWRT is a great choice for loading up on embedded devices. The guys from the PaulDotCom podcast recently wrote a book regarding hacking such devices and I plan to pick up a copy and get moving.

No postings of late

Obviously there's been no postings from me in a while...my firm has just opened a new office in the UK so I've been there a couple of times, plus I'm getting married in a few weeks so its been a rather crazy time of late. I'm going to try making some short posts more frequently, and hopefully I'll get back on track with my vision of how my blog should be.