On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:53:16 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>> You're not old enough to be that cynical. ;-)
> 
> O RLY?

Really.  You're not even middle-aged. :-)

>> Seriously, they may not have changed anything, but it's more likely
>> that they did change something and aren't disclosing the specifics of
>> what they changed so as to protect their customers.  That's probably
>> what I'd do - never give the 'bad guys' any additional information they
>> can use to game the system or steal from people.
> 
> Well, from what I read, they got hacked because they had little to no
> security at all. (Specifically, somebody got access to their wireless
> network because it was WEP, and then the traffic on that network was
> completely unencrypted so they could just do whatever they wanted...)
> 
> While I imagine it's probably WPA and they probably put in a few
> firewalls and a little authentication, I sorely doubt that any company
> who failed to see what a spectacularly insecure system they'd built in
> the first place would know how to *properly* secure their systems.

Unless they hired a consultant.  You don't know they didn't, do you?

Jim

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