Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0

Mozilla has released version 2 of their desktop email client Thunderbird. It is available for immediate download at the following link.

What's New in Thunderbird 2

• Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
• Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability and maximize screen real estate.
• Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
• Advanced Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
• Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services: Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.
• Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
• Improved New Mail Notification Alerts: New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message preview text.
• Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
• Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
• Find As You Type: Finds and highlights message text as you type.
• Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
• Updates to the Extension System: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
• New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
• Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista.

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New attack cracks WEP in record time

A team at the Technische Universität Darmstadt said that they can grab the key with a 95 percent probability of success in as little as two minutes using a 1.7GHz Pentium-M machine to do the calculations.

Here's how the attack works: in order to find the key, a would-be attacker has to have enough traffic to analyze. Therefore, the researchers forced the protected network to start generating packets. Once they have 40,000 packets to analyze, they have a 50 percent success rate in grabbing the key; an additional 20,000 packets nudges the success rate up to 80 percent. Reaching the 95 percent threshold requires 85,000 data packets. As they were able to generate 764 packets per second, they were able to hit the 85,000 mark in 1:51. At this time, the researchers' tool, aircrack-ptw (source code)—which they say is similar to aircrack-ng—does not work on 256-bit WPA.

The attack itself is nothing new. As early as 2001, researchers demonstrated vulnerabilities in the RC4 stream cipher that forms the basis for WEP. It wasn't long before 40-bit WEP was cracked; by 2004, 104-bit WEP could be broken with as few as 500,000 recovered packets.

Source: ars technica

Gmail April Fool's Joke

Google has added the ability for users to request a hardcopy of their email to be printed & delivered to them Free of Charge!!!


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