The Red Brick Times

Two items that I thought particularly interesting (and for some reason thought you would too). They both have "secret" in their titles. Everybody loves secrets.

How I got 'deep' into FBI secrets by Bob Woodward. How he met "deep throat".

And, from "The Nation", A Public Secret details some "new information that has come out in response to the "Downing Street memo" (if you don't already know about that memo there's info on it here).

(FYI: The links are both to Yahoo News to avoid registration hassles.)

P.S. (10:15am) Another interesting item you may want to be aware of:

Several Internet security sites are warning of some potentially serious new computer virus outbreaks. A new version of the Bagle worm always makes news because it has been so successful in the past. The latest variants -- there are at least three -- surfaced this morning, according to a writeup at the SANS Internet Storm Center. As noted before, the Bagle worm is the result of an unholy alliance between spammers and virus writers, designed to conscript your PC as a spam-spewing zombie.

The viruses arrive via e-mail in an attached ".zip" file, bearing a spoofed "from" address, meaning it's likely to appear to come from someone you know. According to SANS, if receive such an e-mail from a person you know today, it may be best to delete the file or wait until you can confirm its authenticity with the supposed sender. That's because at the time of this writing, several popular antivirus programs don't appear to have the latest updates that would allow the software to detect it as a threat if you open or scan the attachment, SANS reports.

A couple of other things to watch out for are two new versions of the MyTob worm. Mytob is one of this year's most successful (read: infectious) worms, spawning more than 125 new variants and infecting more than 65,000 computers worldwide, according to Internet security firm Trend Micro.

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