Growing financial pressures, unforeseen threats, and a volatile and rapidly changing business landscape — apt descriptions for both the world economy and this years Worldwide Infrastructure Security Survey.

Arbor Networks once again has completed a survey of the largest ISPs and content providers around the world. Some 70 lead security engineers responded to 90 questions covering a spectrum of Internet backbone security threats and engineering challenges. This fourth annual survey covered the 12-month period from August 2007 through July 2008.

A copy of the full report is available at http://www.arbornetworks.com/report

THANK YOU AMERICA!

PLEASE VOTE. AMERICA WILL THANK YOU.

BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT.

Want to hash my hard drive? Come back with a warrant

Federal agents seeking to generate MD5 hashes from files on a suspect’s hard drive must now obtain a warrant before doing so, says a Pennsylvania U.S. District Court, as such an act constitutes a government search protected by the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The case in question, United States v.Robert Crist, involves accusations of child pornography and a warrantless search conducted against the defendant’s hard drive. In the case, a federal agent generated an MD5 hash – a unique numeric signature of a file – of every file and then compared them to a national child pornography database.

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I believe this endorsement speaks for itself. Of particular note was a comment where he discussed the concerns from members of the republican party that Barack “might” be Muslim.

“Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian,” he said. “But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, ‘He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.’ This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”

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Well my iPhone frustrations continue…

I loathe the fact that I can’t do anything with email attachments other than just read them. It would be nice to be able to edit a word attachment on occaision. It also would be cool to be able to attach a doc to an email.

As I have said before, a system wide cut and paste feature, available on almost all smart phones, is something that should have been included in the first gen iPhones.

And why does every single text editor have to have it’s own, independent storage area for docs? I can’t even share docs from one text editor to  another. If it is stored in one text editing app’s filestore, there is no way for another text editor to get to it. This is just plain ridiculous.

The cool thing though? I’m posting this from my iPhone.

Ok Apple…You’re forgiven…for now but my patience is wearing thin. Beauty will only get you so far.

By Robert Westervelt, News Editor
14 Oct 2008 | SearchSecurity.com

Many companies have security policies and procedures in place, but the results of a recent survey found that employees are bypassing many of them, bringing sensitive data home with very few protections.

In many cases, companies are struggling to find the right balance between strict security requirements and employee productivity as more employees work at home. Encryption and other security technologies are available, but some firms are accepting the risk and some may be unaware that end users are bringing customer data, personally identifiable information or company financial data home with them on laptops, smartphones and Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives.

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Panel: Palin abused power in trooper case

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska’s governor and violated state ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator’s report concluded Friday.

“Gov. Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda,” the report states.

Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten from the state police force was “likely a contributing factor” to Monegan’s July dismissal, but Palin had the authority as governor to fire him, the report by former Anchorage prosecutor Stephen Branchflower states.

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Dan Raywood
October 10, 2008

I was really beginning to get frustrated right before Apple released their 2.1 upgrade for the iPhone 3G. Like a lot of folks, dropped calls and a weak 3G signal strength were pretty common. My GPS signal strength in my home was pretty poor as well (actually most GPS’s don’t typically get great signals in a building anyway) but that didn’t bother me so much as the poor 3G reception.

After I upgraded to v2.1, I noticed that my 3G signal strength was stronger and to date, I have yet to have a dropped call, seriously. When I was constantly getting 1 bar in my home for 3G, I now get 4 bars and it rarely modes down to Edge. Sure, the battery is drained faster when 3G is enabled but that was to be expected.

After fiddling around with the GPS tonight, I noticed that it now instantly picks up my location in my home, no matter what room I’m in. I don’t use it that much but I distinctly remember that it took forever to get a fix before and wouldn’t actually “fix” on my position. I would see the blue circle on the map in the area where the GPS “thought” I was located. Maybe this was not an enhancement in v2.1 but I am happy it is working well regardless.