“A new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability has come to light, this time affecting Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
The software giant has issued a security advisory about the potential exploit, which affects older Microsoft Office versions up through Office 2003. The current flagship Office 2007 product is not vulnerable.”
For more details see article by Jabulani Lefall, “PowerPoint Security Bug Found in Office 2003” at:
Written by: Ira Winkler March 24, 2009. For the Internet Revolution Blog:
“The ‘CSI Effect’ is what people call juror expectations of forensic evidence that unequivocally proves the defendant guilty. Unfortunately, there is now a “Twitter Effect,” where defense attorneys hope for mistrials because jurors just can’t control themselves and have to tweet what’s going on inside courtrooms or deliberation areas….” See entire posting at:
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=515&doc_id=173990&
Stories about popular, exciting topics, often appear almost together , sometimes on the same day. On March 13 two stories published in the InformationWeek Daily Newsletter caught our attention and we wanted to pass them on to our readers:
In “The Intruder Story: Man At His Best”, Michael Hickins writes:
“As far as I’m concerned, David Prager is a hero. I would love to meet the man with enough sangfroid (that’s French for cojones) to Tweet and to even set up a Ustream of the event, all while reflecting on the relative degree of danger in which he found himself.”
American Libraries Direct is the e-newsletter of the American Library Association (ALA),
March 11, 2009.
Highlights:
February 2009 Volume 2 Number 2.
CLLB Information Security Newsletter
Monthly Cyber Security Tips NEWSLETTER
Georgia K. Briscoe* of the University of Colorado School of Law Library has sent the following announcement which we are please to post here for the benefit of all law librarians and perhaps some others as well. Here is her announcement:
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new online SSRN journal which academic technical services librarians will find useful. LEGAL INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY eJOURNAL is edited by Randy Diamond and Lee Peoples. I am pleased to be a member of the editorial board representing technical services issues. The archive already includes over 150 papers and is growing daily. This ejournal provides another avenue for TS librarians to publish.
Subscribers to SSRN will soon start receiving email issues announcing works in progress and recent publications. SSRN will issue a formal announcement soon, but the editors are pleased to provide a pre-launch viewing. Detailed information from Randy and Lee follows. I hope you will check out this new opportunity for professional growth and development.
January 2009 Volume 2 # 1
Challenge or Secret Questions
From the Desk of David Badertscher
Criminal Law Library Blog