Hopefully this morning you noticed that AutomaticUpdate did its job & now your workstation's nice & happy with the latest patches... because there were eleven of 'em. Yeah, that's right; eight of which were deemed "critical." Your job's not done, though, because this time you've got server's to reset as well...

"Security researchers are warning IT managers to obviously patch all of the bugs being fixed today, but to quickly turn their attention to two vulnerabilities in Active Directory implementations in Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server."

I'm glad I caught this at the Reg, because I know many who use Trillian, & until my recent love affair with Pidgin, I've recommended it to everyone as the best multi-protocol IM client. If you're using it now, make sure you update to 3.1.6.0 ASAP. They've got links to the iDefense advisory & a dev blog at Cerulean Studios.

Yikes. I would bet that some heads are rolling in the UVA IT department right now. I mean... c'mon. There are so many tools to prevent/detect stuff like this available, it's really inexcusable to let something like this run on for so long...

"The hack, which is believed to have gone undetected for two years, netted details on over 6,000 staff who had taught at the university from 1990 to August 2003."

Unbreakable encryption based on quantum mechanics. Mind-blowing stuff here, folks, & the European Space Agency's funding it for satellite communication.

"The degree of change in the state of the paired photons is completely random and unpredictable, according to ESA, theoretically foiling any attempt by a third party to decode the message without actually intercepting the quantum encryption key."