Security Breach in U.S. Senate. Over at eLawyer Blog, Doug Simpson has some tough questions concerning the computer security breach in the U.S. Senate. [Netlawblog]

Understanding E-mail Headers. Need some help reading e-mail headers?… [MS Exchange Blog]

InfoWorld: Microsoft: change to IE will block some Web URLs. Microsoft will soon release a software update for IE that will end that browser's ability to accept Web URLs that hide the address of the Web page being displayed using the “@” symbol. The update will remove a feature that is being exploited in scams [...]

FBI's Top 10 Online Security Threats for Windows. The FBI has worked with the SANS Institute to develop a list of the 10 most exploited Windows threats. You can read more about it here. The gist of it? There are 10 component on the Windows platform that are prone to new vulnerabilities, and are regularly [...]

NIST releases paper on Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems. NIST has released a DRAFT paper on risk management for IT Systems. Published as Special Publication 800-30 Rev A its shaping up to be a good reference. Taken from the paper's introduction: An effective risk management process is an important component of a successful [...]

The Commoditization of User Experience. Adaptive Path's Simple Solution series of reports is the first widespread commoditization of user experience practice…and it's worth thinking about what IAs and others should do in a world where $49 buys the fix to a common problem. This week Adaptive Path launched their new reports. The star of the [...]

The new influencers. Can one person decide what the entire industry will buy and use? Anita Rowland points at one story (the Zamboni) where that seems to have happened. That's precisely why evangelists like me pay attention to influentials so much. The problem is, now EVERYONE is an influential. Why? Weblogs. That's why I subscribe [...]

Sneak Preview of Visual C# Whidbey.  A new post on the MSDN dev center gives a great overview of the new features coming up in Whidbey (though there are a few language surprises that aren't in that doc that I hope to cover soon).  [Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium]

The MasterList 2004. There's a new version and a new focus for one of my favorite programs, The MasterList. It's a project and to-do management tool that really works for me. Depending upon the way you work, it may be a good tool for you, too. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Blogging to Radio UserLand from FeedDemon. Chris Brody shared the following tip in our newsgroups about posting to Radio UserLand from FeedDemon: RadioExpress allows you to post content from any web page to your blog:http://www.newsisfree.com/blog/archives/000430.html Once installed and configured as you want, add the following command line toFeedDemon's blog publishing tools: http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/radioExpress?t=$ITEM_DESCRIPTION$&u=$ITEM_LINK$&n=$ITEM_TITLE$ Note that I [...]