Friday, December 29, 2006

I picked up this issue from Mike Walker blog  where he reports that the US Secret Service is calling the ATM system unsafe after reading this post and the original report from Bob Sullivan's blog.  It Basically amounts the the fact that researchers that work for an Israeli computer security company have released a report in how the ATM network can be compromised in order to reveal PIN numbers.  ATM PIN's are essentially decrypted and encrypted on every network hop so if one machine is compromised it becomes simple to crack the PIN's encryption. And apparently this is some thing the Russian Mob is very interested in.  The Israely company release this report after being dismayed with the American Banks lack of action(Banks were informed of this security flaw in the ATM protocol 2 months before the release of the report.)

posted by Aaron Fischer on Friday, December 29, 2006 11:30:54 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [1]
 Sunday, December 24, 2006

If you haven't seen it yet you might want to check out MSN radios new player powered by Pandora basically it will create a unique play list of music based on a song or artist you give it.  I have been playing with it for that past few days its been pretty cool.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Sunday, December 24, 2006 10:26:45 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
Apologies to Mark Miller for a comment I left on his blog
posted by Aaron Fischer on Sunday, December 24, 2006 10:21:05 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [1]
 Thursday, December 21, 2006

Centro much like Small business server(code named cougar) is a bundle of several Microsoft technologies namely Longhorn(Vista server) Exchange Server 2007.  but targeted at business with 250 ish computers so larger then a small business but not an Enterprise.  Check out The SBS and Centro Community Lead Blog For Microsoft's explanation.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Thursday, December 21, 2006 9:06:42 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

I am starting getting excited about WPF/E  finally there will need to deal with Flash just XAML. It runs on Windows and Mac plus IE, FireFox and Safari.  I don't see Opera in the list, we'll see.

Check out Microsoft's WPF/E Referances.  You can down load it from here.

Some  blogs of interest Joe Stegman’s “WPF/E” tales and Mike Harsh's Blog

posted by Aaron Fischer on Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:58:14 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Are we living in fear of our online world?
posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 8:27:04 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Tuesday, December 19, 2006
In regards to Quicken and Money are they really the only two Financial Management programs out there? Is there another simpler player?
posted by Aaron Fischer on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:54:01 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Monday, December 18, 2006
The news in the tech mortgage industry consistently disappoints me.
posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, December 18, 2006 10:02:32 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Beware the answers are out there, you may just not like it.
posted by Aaron Fischer on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:49:02 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Monday, December 11, 2006
My Gateway monitor arived last Tuesday
posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, December 11, 2006 11:28:03 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]