I had this scheduled for later today, but the severity is high enough I thought I should just go ahead and let it post.

• Mac OS X arbitrary code execution details and patches (Security Update 2007-003) are available here.
• Sun Solaris 10’s alert on code execution due to Adobe Reader can be found here.
  

  Multiple security vulnerabilities in the Adobe Reader may allow remote unprivileged users to execute arbitrary code. This includes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that may allow a remote unprivileged user to inject arbitrary JavaScript into a browser session.

• And Cisco has just updated their critical warning on certain switches.

  Cisco Catalyst 6000, 6500 series and Cisco 7600 series that have a Network Analysis Module installed are vulnerable to an attack, which could allow an attacker to gain complete control of the system. Only Cisco Catalyst systems that have a NAM on them are affected.

All that in addition to Microsoft’s cleverly disguised security patch for March.

Busy days with long hours…or as Wong Phui Nam once wrote:

against the margin of encroaching sleep
where I anticipate only, a waking
to vague remembrance of a harrowing in my dream.

Don’t forget the proposed laws of vulnerabilities including that “80% of exploits are available within the first half-life period of critical vulnerabilities” (19 days external, 48 days internal).

by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (mov)

Love of mine
Some day you will die
But I’ll be close behind
I’ll follow you into the dark

No blinding light
Or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no’s on their vacancy signs

If there’s no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I’ll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school
As vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised
By a lady in black

And I held my tongue
As she told me, “Son,
Fear is the heart of love”
So I never went back

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no’s on their vacancy signs

If there’s no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I’ll follow you into the dark

You and me
Have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes, are all worn down

The time for sleep is now
It’s nothing to cry about
Cause we’ll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms…

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no’s on their vacancy signs

If there’s no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I’ll follow you into the dark
Then I’ll follow you into the dark

Is that a preference for purgatory?

At least according to a webpage by Richard Berlin:

Steven Dobyns writes, “A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.” Poetry contains many of the aspirations doctors cherish, what Cesar Pavese called “an absolute will to see clearly,” and Czeslaw Milosz described as “the passionate pursuit of the real.” And after twenty five years as a doctor, I have come to experience the practice of medicine the way Pablo Neruda experienced poetry…

Poetry as key to unlock reality and bring people together. I like that.