While I was reading about the history of the Hart-Rudman national security commission (sometimes also known as Hart-Gingrich or the Hart-Rudman-Gingrich), I ran into an interesting Weekly Standard article (Issue 35, May 29, 2000) by Tom Donnelly. Donnelly was deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century at the time. This is … Continue reading America and the Con
Whoa, the Seattle Times reports that Washington state is talking about low-interest loans for “biodiesel factories”. Just the fact that they call them factories instead of refineries means they probably are actually hoping that this will take off on a distributed level: Gov. Christine Gregoire recently proposed low-interest loans for biodiesel factories, and a requirement … Continue reading Grow your own fuel?
At the end of the day I finally recieved a notice from US-CERT (http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-362A.html) Not all anti-virus software products are currently able to detect all known variants of exploits for this vulnerability. However, US-CERT recommends updating anti-virus signatures as frequently as practical to provide maximum protection as new variants appear. US-CERT is tracking this issue … Continue reading US-CERT on the WMF exploit
Latest report is that the exploit installs if you even download or index an infected WMF file. In other words if you use Google Desktop, which automagically touches your media files, then your system will be trojaned faster than you can say “how convenient”. No known patches are available. F-secure, as usual, is ahead of … Continue reading WMF zero day exploit