Have you been following the hemorrhaging of confidential customer data from the veins of careless companies of late? We at Ipswitch sure have. Recently, local retailer TJX, parent company of TX Maxx and the locally beloved Maashalls, reported a data breach and the resultant loss of customer credit card numbers to parties unknown. A week later, they reported that the breach was worse than previously believed, while some reported that up to 30% of New Englanders might be affected. And those are all links from Network World, you wouldn't believe what the local press have to say about it.

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As I often do on the morning drive, I was listening to NPR's Morning Edition on good old fashioned FM radio. Not a podcast, not on satellite. Call me a luddite. Anyway, the point is that I heard an item that made me want to pull over and bang my head against an ice-coated snow bank. But this is Massachusetts and the breakdown lane is not for nervous breakdowns – or even for stopping – so I drove on to blog about it.

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