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iPhone Email Tips and Tricks

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The iPhone is a great piece of technology, but like all technology it has it’s quirks, as well as some features that you should be aware of when using it to send and receive email. Based upon our experience using iPhones ourselves and in supporting our clients’ varied use of iPhones for connecting to LuxSci email services, we have the following nuggets for you.

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Wireless WPA Security Already Cracking — Be Sure to use SSL!

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Security researches will be outlining attacks that can break the WPA wirless security protection of wireless networks this week at the PacSec conference in Tokyo.  Erik Tews and Martin Beck will discuss how networks protected by TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol — originally called WEP2) are vulnerable to attackers being able to inject small amounts of traffic into the encrypted data stream.  This can allow attackers to:

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Do you need a VPN for Secure Email in a Wireless Hotspot?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

LuxSci has been approached by many people asking for VPN (Virtual Private Network) services.  When we ask them why, they indicate that they use wireless hotspots (like at Starbucks and other public places) that are insecure and untrusted and they want to be sure that their email is secure and encrypted there.

This is a very legitimate concern.  Wireless hotspots are serious danger zones; we have seen many cases of people who have carelessly used insecure connections to email and had their login usernames and passwords stolen in such places.  This can lead to identity theft, the leaking of sensitive company or personal information, and other serious problems.  Anyone using public wireless hotspots or other untrusted networks for email and other activities that involve personal information need to take care that the information sent to and from their computers is protected.  If the transmission of your sensitive information is protected, then you have nothing to worry about and hotspots can be great places to work.

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