Insiders are not, after all, the main threat to networks, a detailed new analysis of real-world data breaches has concluded.

Verizon's 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report, which looked at 500 breach incidents over the last four years, contradicts the growing orthodoxy that insiders, rather than external agents, represent the most serious threat to network security at most organizations.

Seventy-three percent of the breaches involved outsiders, 18 percent resulted from the actions of insiders, with business partners blamed for 39 percent -- the percentages exceed 100 percent due to the fact that some involve multiple breaches, with varying degrees of internal or external involvement.

I've been wary of "business partners" for years... which is why they ALWAYS get firewalled onto their own segment. However, many companies who claim to be security vendors, advocate allowing them directly into the internal and server segments. Scary... and stupid.

PC World - Business Center: Insider Threat Exaggerated, Study Says

June 9, Wall Street Journal – (National) Harvard researchers fail to report drug payments. Three prominent Harvard University psychiatrists underreported payments they received from drug makers, a situation that highlights the need for a national reporting system of pharmaceutical company payments to physicians, according to an Iowa senator, whose staff compared records of payments provided by drug makers with conflict-of-interest forms the three psychiatrists provided to the university and Massachusetts General Hospital, where they practice.

The university and hospital disclosures made it appear that the psychiatrists were making only a “couple hundred thousand dollars” over a seven-year period beginning in 2000. After the inquiry began, the university and hospital asked the doctors to take a second look at the amounts they received from drug companies. This prompted two of the doctors to report revised totals of more than $1.6 million each in payments from drug companies between 2000 and 2007. The other reported receiving more than $1 million.

The amounts may be even higher because drug-company records indicate the doctors were still reporting amounts lower than what the pharmaceutical makers say they were paid. The senator said the current method for disclosing conflicts of interest among medical researchers is an honor system in which researchers report their relationships with drug and medical-device makers, but nobody checks to make sure the information is accurate. He is calling for a national reporting system in which drug companies disclose payments to doctors. Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121297210499055941.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

After all, we all make these little rounding errors from time to time...

Aren't there Rico Laws against this?

Harvard researchers fail to report drug Harvard researchers fail to report drug payments.

Microsoft, Kaiser in health data swap pilot: report
Mon Jun 9, 2008 8:27am EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Kaiser Permanente, the biggest U.S. health maintenance organization (HMO), are working on a patient information exchange pilot program to help give patients more control over their health records, The Wall Street Journal said on Monday.

Isn't this the first sign of the apocalypse?

Microsoft, Kaiser in health data swap pilot: report | Technology | Reuters

WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) Powerful computer software linked to security cameras are the latest technological weapon being deployed to defend the homeland.

9 News Now has learned that key transportation installations throughout the Washington DC area are employing video analytics, a type of software that is able to detect threats caught on security cameras.

Sweet!!! Now we can let the computer and trained security guards (read low paid monkees) make the decisions about who is dangerous! W00h00, your tax dollars hard at work!

WUSA9.com | Washington, DC | New Technology To Battle Terrorism

D Afifi writes "Two political researchers at the University of Nottingham, in the UK, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for downloading Al-Qaida material from a US government website. The material was to be used for research in terrorist tactics. There has been a huge public outcry, with university staff planning a march to demonstrate against the attack on academic freedom. Yet, one of the students, an Algerian, is still held in custody under immigration charges and is being fast-tracked for deportation."

Can you say "McCarthyism"? I though you could...

Really, the parallels between McCarthyism and the "War on Terrorism" are too blatant to ignore. Why is it that our world leaders don't see this "witch hunt" too?

Slashdot | UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida

D Afifi writes "Two political researchers at the University of Nottingham, in the UK, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for downloading Al-Qaida material from a US government website. The material was to be used for research in terrorist tactics. There has been a huge public outcry, with university staff planning a march to demonstrate against the attack on academic freedom. Yet, one of the students, an Algerian, is still held in custody under immigration charges and is being fast-tracked for deportation."

Can you say "McCarthyism"? I though you could...

Really, the parallels between McCarthyism and the "War on Terrorism" are too blatant to ignore. Why is it that our world leaders don't see this "witch hunt" too?

Slashdot | UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida

2001, turf wars have flared up between city police and the state-run police force in charge of ground zero security. In recent weeks, the skirmish has heated up

Oh the Humanity. Why can't we all just get along?

But really, how much money is being wasted during these "skirmishes"?

NYC Police Seek to Control Security at Ground Zero - Construction Equipment Guide Story

Hackers attacked Russian nuclear power websites

More great reasons to put our power grids on TCP/IP!!!

[sarcasm]

RIA Novosti - Russia - Russian nuclear power websites attacked amid accident rumors

Worthersee wrote:
My friend that works at Lenovo sent me this video.

I've got a T61, but I can see that perhaps I'll be looking at the X300 in the future....

RE: Mac Book Air vs. Lenovo X300

I Love Lamp wrote:

The suburban landscape has been marred by foreclosures and half-built communities abandoned in the subprime aftermath. But James Howard Kunstler, author of a dozen books, including The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, thinks there's a bigger threat to those far-flung neighborhoods: the scarcity of oil. As Kunstler sees it, oil wells are running dry and the era of cheap fuel is over. Given the supply constraints, he says the U.S. will have to rethink suburban sprawl, bringing an end to strip malls, big-box stores, and other trappings of the automotive era. Kunstler, 59, predicts a return to towns and cities centered around a retail hub—not unlike his hometown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. But the shift to this new paradigm, he says, will be painful. (Kunstler could be off the mark; he predicted technological Armageddon after Y2K.) BusinessWeek writer Mara Der Hovanesian spoke with Kunstler about suburbia, which he calls "the greatest misallocation of resources the world has ever known."

This dude sounds credible...

(Kunstler could be off the mark; he predicted technological Armageddon after Y2K.)

This does have a bit more credibility than y2kdisasterarmageddon2k

As someone who lives in a "far flung suburbia", I plan to adopt a different strategy to cope with the impending $8-10 per gallon gasoline prices. I plan on purchasing a motorcycle, to use for commuting, and use the resources in my local area for all of my needs...

I'm researching carpooling with neighbors, and other group options to lower the cost of getting to work, and I'm also allowed to work from home, when I don't have to be onsite with customers. These are some of the reasons I think that the doom and gloom of "suburbia" are over played, as most of us who live in my area really like the clean air, lower crime rate, lower tax rate, and fiber optic (to the curb) internet connections. (Thanks to Bellsouth...) We enjoy a small town spirit, in an 8yr old Swim/Tennis subdivision, with a median household income of $75K. My family and friends have discussed all of the impending "doom and gloom" already, and we're steadfast, that we are not moving back to the crime, smog, noise, and light polluted cities, regardless of the cost of fuel. It's simply not worth it.

RE: Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?