December Weblog Archives

National Security Administration and cookies

And I’m not talking the $250 kind either.

It seems the NSA has been putting persistent cookies on folks computers. Claims the software came that way:
Don Weber, an NSA spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday that the cookie use resulted from a recent software upgrade. Normally, the site uses temporary, permissible cookies that are automatically deleted […]

Trojan Exploit - Exploit-WMF

Just got an email about a new trojan exploit- Exploit-WMF, affecting the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003, exploiting the Windows Metafile vulnerability.
Apparently; the google desktop thingy will index it and it executes:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx
http://secunia.com/advisories/18255/
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122005.html#00000754
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm

Cancer Metastasis

Why cancers possess a wanderlust, spreading from one site to another, has been one of the most confounding questions in medicine, and now New York scientists have unmasked the role of infinitesimal “scouts,” cells and proteins that coalesce to seek out fertile ground for a tumor’s spread.
The finding turns a corner in the history of […]

Doctor Appointments

Wednesday was the PET scan and yesterday was the biopsy. THe PET scan was a piece of cake, the biopsy was an all day affair.
I want to know why: a doctors office will send you for an appointment, and they don’t bother telling you any specifics. Like, you ask:
How long will I be at the […]

Not a good week for computer repair

This is not a good week for computer repair - for anything computer it seems. I wonder if the moon is void-of-course??
Yup. Check this out. Moon went void:
Fri Dec 16 7:34 PM To Sun Dec 18 9:19 AM Moon enters Leo
At approximately 7:30 pm, SO’s computer went south. I mean it’s gone. Harddrive is […]