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Permanent Privacy has announced that they’ve created an absolutely unbreakable (practical) data encryption system…and offering a $1,000,000.00 reward to anyone who can hack it. Harvard cryptanalist Peter Schweitzer has verified Permenant Privacy’s claims and backs the $1M reward to anyone that can read a sample of ciphertext.

Permanent Privacy’s Managing Director Peter White said, “The world of cryptography shuns and disparages outsiders, but Permanent Privacy is the real thing. You can now send emails and store data with 100% security. Even the Pentagon can’t read your secrets if they don’t have the keys”.[source]

“…Rwanda and the Solomon Islands topped the list of slowest countries, with 95% or more of their connections to Akamai occurring at speeds below 256Kbps. In the United States, Washington State and Virginia turned in the highest percentages of sub-256Kbps connections, at 21% and 18%, respectively…”. As reported in Networkworld. Akamai report about internet state during Q1 2008 can be downloaded here

News from informationweek.com, that Robert Soloway facing more than 20 years in prison due to his spamming activity from 2003-2008.

Spam King Robert Alan Soloway, who owns Newport Internet Marketing Corporation, pleaded guilty on Friday in Seattle's U.S. District Court to mail and e-mail fraud and willful failure to file a tax return.

Soloway could receive up to 20 years in prison and over half a million dollars in fines when he is sentenced on June 20 by U.S. District Judge Marsha J. Pechman. The bulk of Soloway's sentence is likely to come from the mail fraud offense, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. E-mail fraud is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Willful failure to file a tax return is punishable by up to a year in prison

Robert Soloway is consider as one of top 10 spammer in the world, and here is the full list from spamhaus.prg

1 Leo Kuvayev / BadCow, Russian Federation
Russian/American spammer. Does "OEM CD" pirated software spam, copy-cat pharmaceuticals, porn spam, porn payment collection, etc.

New ISO/IEC 24762:2008 provides guidance on:

• Implementing, operating, monitoring and maintaining the necessary facilities and services necessary for disaster recovery.
• Fallback and recovery support for the organization’s ICT systems.
• The capabilities which outsourced ICT disaster recovery service providers should possess and the practices they should follow, so as to provide basic secure operating environments and facilitate the organizations' recovery efforts.
• The selection of a recovery site (e.g. considering factors such as environmental stability, good infrastructure, etc.), and
• Requirements for ICT DR service providers to continuously improve their ICT DR services.

view standard here

The latest update of Linkedin.com one of the most popular social networking site for professional, is proven evidence that the social network is become very important in our life. The function is shift, not only as communication media but its also become place to find new career, develop larger network to corporate research.

However the massive usage of social network website also becomes another challenge for industry to create good enterprise policy for this matter. Any other idea, how to develop social networking website policy?

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