November 17, 2008, 11:06 am
Here’s a quick tip that slipped through the blogosphere (at least none of the Mac blogs I subscribe to featured it): in Safari 3.2, released last week, Apple’s added a feature from Firefox 3’s “awesome bar”: when you’re on a secure website, such as a bank’s, that has identification information, it’s displayed in green (though in Safari it’s at the top-right of the title bar). A screenshot:
Safari 3.2 adds secure website information to the title bar.
Along with a phishing filter, it looks like Safari is stepping up to the plate as a secure browser.
August 6, 2008, 2:44 am
Justice: Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers - CNN.com.
After reading this article, I have just one question: why would a brick-and-mortar store like OfficeMax be transmitting credit card data wirelessly? Even when encrypted it obviously isn’t secure, and the cash registers don’t exactly move often. It makes no sense to me. When I went to the Apple store to buy my iPhone, the woman who sold it to me used a handheld device to process my card; this is a situation where I understand why it’s using wireless. Otherwise, though, using a wireless network where wires could work is just asking to get hacked.
