Black Tuesday Comes Once a Month

It’s Black Tuesday, so here’s the monthly reminder to go get patched if you use “Gates Gear”. New security bulletins from microsoft are out, exploits using these will be out before the weekend, so get patched.
More at ISC.
Also noteworthy in the security department:
Yahoo Messenger Exploit
Fake Microsoft Email Security Bulletin
Pop Quiz – I got them both [...]

Iran Arming the Taliban

If you’ve been reading here awhile you will have seen articles speculating that Iran is playing a hand in both Pakistan and in Afghanistan. Today a US Envoy openly accused elements within Iran of supplying and training the Taliban:

Memorial to the Victims of Communism

Gateway Pundit has good coverage of the memorial dedicated to the victims of communism today in Washington. It’s a statue of the replica of our Statue of Liberty that students took to Tianamen Square, the statue crushed in the massacre on 6/4 1989. LA times article here. History of mass murdering regimes here.  (*Warning: don’t follow [...]

Carbon Credit or Euro Credit-Scam?

Green groups in Europe are speaking out about the carbon credit swindles, turns out that carbon credits are going to net out to little or no reduction in CO2 output. Go figure… article here.

Rudy’s Commitments

During a speech at the Old Bedford Town Hall in New Hampshire today, Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced Twelve Commitments to the American people, a bold vision aimed at moving America forward through change and reform, overcoming new challenges and increasing accountability in Washington.
Rudy’s Twelve Commitments are based on the principles of giving people more freedom, [...]

Bin Laden Dead or Alive

If Osama Bin Laden is alive, he has deserted his cause or he has been captured.
At the Jamestown Foundation Global Terrorism Analysis site they document the desperate discussion going on in the Jihadi forums, with different groups floating different excuses and speculation on why he’s not been seen or heard from the past year and a [...]