Cody Taylor

The Federal Aviation Administration wants a new air traffic control system. Badly. And it’s just released a six minute video to try and sell its vision to members of Congress and the US public.

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Hugh Pickens writes “Vice President Joe Biden lauded Hollywood at a gala dinner in Washington, assailed movie piracy, and promised film executives that the Obama administration would pick “the right person” as its copyright czar. Biden warned of the harms of piracy at the private event organized by the Motion Picture Association of America in the sumptuous, newly renovated Great Hall of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. “It’s pure theft, stolen from the artists and quite frankly from the American people as consequence of loss of jobs and as a consequence of loss of income,” Biden said, according to a White House pool report. Biden addressed President Obama’s forthcoming decision about who will be named the intellectual-property enforcement coordinator, better known as the copyright czar. Under a law approved by the U.S. Congress last October, Obama is required to appoint someone to coordinate the administration’s IP enforcement efforts and prepare annual reports. Copyright industry lobbyists sent a letter to the president asking him to pick someone sympathetic to their concerns, while groups that would curb copyright law sent their own letter (pdf) urging the opposite approach. We “will find the right person for intellectual property czar,” Biden said.”

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yahoi writes ” According to the DarkReading article, ‘Researchers have discovered a major botnet operating out of the Ukraine that has infected 1.9 million machines, including large corporate and government PCs mainly in the U.S. The botnet, which appears to be larger than the infamous Storm botnet was in its heyday, has infected machines from some 77 government-owned domains — 51 of which are in the US government. Researchers from Finjan who found the botnet say it’s controlled by six individuals, and includes machines in major banks.'”

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WPA-PSK Wireless Network Error on Speedstrem 6520 Modem/Router.

I went to set up a wifi network today on my Speedsream 6520 Router/Modem. I chose the WPA-PSK encryption option because WEP is stupidly easy to crack. It seemed that whatever I entered for the shared key gave me this “Shared Key is invalid” error. This was a problem. I immediately started cursing the developers of the web interface for not making it clear what the length or format should be.

After trying a few times I was getting ready for a night of frustration.
I looked a little closer at the page that prompts for the shared key for the WPA-PSK Shared Key.
The page has a fair amount of text on it describing the different encryption schemes and right under that there is a bullet labeled Shared Key.

The third sentence tells us that the password be a minimum of 10 characters.
This got me thinking because every key I used for the TKIP network was as many characters as the text box would allow, so I tried a Key that was 8 characters in length. This got rid of the error but left the WPA-PSK hackable due the the lack of strength of the Key. I put another 4 characters onto the WPA-PSK Shared Key and tried again.This also works. Not really sure why they would make the text box hold more characters than the firmware would allow but it happens. Anyway with a WPA-PSK wireless network encrypted with a Shared Key of 12 characters my network should be secure enough for now.

Chicago (IL) – Researchers at the Cyber Secure Institute estimate that the nefarious Conficker worm has racked up a staggering .1 billion bill. The Institute also warned against “downplaying” the worm’s significance.

Web browser’s third update this year fixes 12 vulnerabilities–four rated critical–and comes as its open-source developers ready the fourth beta.