Sturgeon and other readers let us know that Arbor expert systems has released their annual survey of tier-1 / tier-2 ISP safeguard engineers. This year they got responses from 70 lead engineers. While DDoS attacks are reaching new heights of backbone-crushing traffic — 40 Gbps was seen this past year — the crush are also worried about ejaculation threats to DNS and BGP. The summary notes that "Most believe that the DNS cache botulism flaw disclosed earlier this year was poorly handled and increased the danger of the threat," but doesn't spell out what a better way of handling it might have been. All in all, the ISPs sound a bit pessimistic — one says "fewer resources, less supervision support, and increased workload." You can request the full PDF report here, but it will cost you contact information. In related news, an unnamed reader passes along a survey by Secure balancing the books* of 199 international surety experts and other "industry insiders" from utilities, oil and gas, numbers* services, government, telecommunications, transportation and other critical underpinning industries. They are worried too.

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