Last major collection of links. Alvis has a TAKS test tomorrow so we are going retro and watching some Azumanga Daioh anime DVD’s to melt our brain cells before heading off to an early bedtime. I’ll try to section it up a bit. Lots of neat finds and worthy candidates for your attention.  Do...

Alvis and Lavie are watching the Oscars tonight and I’m along for the ride. I wasn’t able to come even close to getting out some of the posting I wanted.  Nothing like a short weekend, a bit of weed-pulling in the yard, and the regular mix of loving on the girls to wear a weekend out. Coupl...

Public domain photo: taken by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Julianne Showalter Anti-Malware news VIPRE PC Rescue - (freeware) - Sunbelt Software is now offering a “standaloneâ€� anti-malware scanning/removal tool.  The self-extracting executable is updated daily with the latest signatures. Sca...

Alvis got a major teen upgrade last month. We moved our old TV out of the bedroom and into her room. I haven’t had time yet to run a cable line from a junction-box to it just yet, but she is diligently reminding me that I had promised to address the lack of visual connectivity this weekend. So I p...

Wow.  What a busy last couple of days!  I’m only now coming up for air. Been playing taxi taking Alvis to school and picking her up early as she has short days due to finals. Then there was that two-day jaunt through the piney woods up to Jasper, Texas for an extended family wedding. Tod...

Public domain photo: taken by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Julianne Showalter Been a busy week in the security world this past week. Lots of hurt coming up from the swamplands and lots of smack-back from the anti-malware forces. Pull up a chair, it’s story-time from the trenches. Malware and Rogue...

This past Wednesday night we Texas Gulf-Coast residents were treated with a very rare sight: Snow. It started coming down while we were at our church-house and on the drive back it was full flurries.  Visibility driving was something else.  Alvis had been soaked by antics while I was wrapp...

cc image credit: Jeremy Botter, flickr Standing guard so you can remain alert. So many, many very good security and forensics related links, my head is spinning from trying to organize them all into a single and coherent post. To help achieve that, commentary will be kept to a minimum. Must Reads (I...

Since mid-November, I’ve wiped all remnants of AVG Free 8 from my systems and have been diligently trial-testing a new (to me) AV/AM program. I’m not yet at the point of dropping a review of Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE, but in a vague and general statement as to my feelings toward it at this stag...

I think I need a bigger lorry for this one. New, Updated, and/or Free Utilities Security Database Tools Watch - FireCAT 1.4 package released – For those who don’t know, FireCAT is a logical collection of security-auditing/pen-testing Add-on extensions for Mozilla Firefox. It is a really amazing ...