Great podcast by Bruce Shneier about the Boston Marathon and the Psychology of fear. I think Bruce has an excellent viewpoint on these things. My heart goes out to the people in Boston.
While this is not necessarily security related, Microsoft is warning users not update to MS13-036. The update was part of this months ‘Patch Tuesday’ release from a few days ago. In an update to their bulletin today Microsoft is quoted as describing:
“2839011 You receive an Event ID 55 or a 0xc000021a Stop error in Windows 7 after you install security update 2823324″
Because this is a Kernel level fix these problems have occurred from time to time. If do you do have the ability to wait to patch, I would recommend you do.
I made a quick blog post over at the Cisco blog. You may find some gem in their, maybe not. Nmap has been around forever. The next one will be more brilliant. Promise.