27 July 2006

MS Advisory: Beware Unexpected PowerPoint Files

The company's advisory comes less than a week after virus hunters discovered that a previously undocumented flaw in Microsoft PowerPoint was being exploited to plant a keystroke logger on infected Windows systems.

Read the full story by by Ryan Naraine at EWeek.com
MS Advisory: Beware Unexpected PowerPoint Files

12 July 2006

Berkeley Sea Scouts case appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

The Pacific Legal Foundation announced Tuesday that it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the California Supreme Court that affirmed the city of Berkeley's right to deny the Berkeley Sea Scouts free berthing privileges at its marina.
Read the full story by by Martin Snapp of the CONTRA COSTA TIMES in the Mercury News

11 July 2006

US CERT Alert

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And the dance continues.

20 June 2006

Google's not-so-very-secret weapon

THE DALLES, Oregon On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is as big as two football fields, with twin cooling towers protruding four stories into the sky.

Read the full story by John Markoff and Saul Hansell The New York Times
Published: June 13, 2006

03 June 2006

King Arthur's Scottish Camelot


A number of authors down through the ages have suggested that Arthur - this most English of heroes - was in fact from Scotland, a story if true that would stand history on its head.
Read the full article by DIANE MACLEAN