On Thursday, the Director spoke for the first time at the RSA Conference.

Terrorists plotting and scheming anonymously online—and posting videos on how to build everything from backpack bombs to bio-weapons.

Spies, hired cyber mercenaries, and criminal syndicates worming their way into government networks, attempting to steal our nation’s most sensitive secrets.

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocal is a new type of communication which provides a number of advantages over the more traditional forms of communication devices. Rather than using a phone line, it actually works through communicating over your cable line. There are many services that provide this. For instance your cable company might offer it as a part of their package, and you might be able to get it by itself. You might have choices such as Vonage or even Magicjack.

When you choose to use VoIP however, you will also need to select a decent phone. Below we will outline the specifications of four phones that you could try out. You will more than likely find one that you like, and you will be making phone calls like never before.

Impossible. That's what the 2009 Augustine committee reported about prospects for NASA's human exploration of space, at least for the next seven years. NASA's budget issues remain at the top of the list holding humans from space but the same future may not hold true for its robots.

Two recent robot adventurers, rovers Spirit and Opportunity, lend credence to the idea that NASA's future may rapidly become reliant on robots to carry out missions in space. The Mars exploring rovers cost the agency more than $400 million apiece but have returned nearly six years of insightful data and imagery from the red planet's surface.

Contrast this against the charge for merely launching human passengers into orbit via space shuttle, at roughly $450 million per launch, and the fiscal benefits become quickly apparent. Not to mention, space shuttles such as Endeavour cost the agency almost $1.7 billion to manufacture alone.

NASA's Space Faring Robots of the Past

The Mars rovers aren't the first robots to plumb the mysteries of space for NASA. In fact, robots have investigated and visited more locations in our solar system than any human--oftentimes to locales an astronaut couldn't survive.

In 1973 the robotic space probe Mariner 10 traveled to the inner system planets of Mercury and Venus while its younger sister, Mariner 9, made the trip to Mars more than thirty years before Spirit and Opportunity. Alongside, Pioneer Venus 2 ejected robotic probes which dared an actual foot landing on the surface of Venus, a vacation spot bragging temperatures well over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

One of those probes managed to survive the risky descent and dutifully report back for 45 minutes inside roasting temperatures and atmospheric pressure that no sane human would tempt. Clearly robots can take an exploratory role that would be too costly and too dangerous for a person.

Network Security is a complex problem that we must deal with every day, especially in big companies. Anytime, hackers can plant vulnerable viruses and Trojans to steal valuable data, and cause data loss and network destruction. There are also internal threats, especially from unsatisfied employees with full access to company data. Company data must be secured from sabotages by industry spies. To achieve the best network security for your company, you can consider using network security software, firewalls, encrypted pages and passwords. By doing these methods, you can at least minimize the risks of being a victim of data theft.

We wish you the very best for the Holidays!

The Editorial Team, EDI Weekly

An ongoing threat exists for computer users who, while browsing the Internet, began receiving pop-up security warnings that state their computers are infected with numerous viruses.

Photo of 2010 Prius by Derek Armstrong. May use with full credit to magazine and photographer

Derek Armstrong, EDI Correspondent

Vehicle Tested: 2010 Toyota Prius
Long term test: 7,000 miles

Vehicle from: cars4u.com

Conclusion: Third generation hybrid drives like a sporty luxury five door while delivering real-world 50 miles-per-gallon.

Pull Out

"We sell and lease a lot of cars," said Abraham Blinick, Operations Manager at cars4u.com. "This is the car I like so much I bought one myself."

PROS:

• 50 mpg (3.8 litres per 100km in Canada) real world

• Solid real-car handling with sporty aspirations (for a Toyota)

Unfortunately, young children have been the prey of a good many mentally ill individuals in this world. Their pattern is to seek out children in friendship only to pounce upon them when the child lets down its guard in learning to trust the stranger. You must first accept that there is indeed a problem as well as accepting that there may be someone who is a predator of your family.

"Liquid Library", Photos.com

The growth of the internet has brought with it a wave of online piracy of movies and TV shows. The entertainment industry often gives dire warnings of what this will lead to and wants more done to stop it. What the industry fails to realize though is that a significant part of the blame for this problem rests squarely on their shoulders, and their stubborn refusal to adapt to the digital age.

People download pirated products for a variety of reasons, but two major ones are cost and convenience. While there are those who are going to pirate goods as long as they can get away with it, a large number of those pirating movies and TV would not do so if there were better legal alternatives. A convenient, reasonably-priced way of legal downloading would decrease illegal downloading and allow law enforcement to concentrate on more serious pirates.