Attention Citizens, tech advisories!

Citizens, the Department of Homeland Security office wants YOU, yes YOU, to be vigilant this holiday weekend! The FBI sent a bulletin to about 18,000 local and state officials to "be on the look out for plastic-foam containers (like beer & soda coolers) inner tubes, beach balls and even buoys that could be rigged to blow up on contact". As usual, there is "no intelligence terrorists are planning to or want to do this", but hey, that doesn't matter, watch out!

We've been really suspicious of this "jet powered" beer cooler
pictured at right...

Next up, you might not want to use Internet Explorer on your PC. The Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness group
has suggested using browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer might be a good idea. This push is in response to a nasty vulnerability that is making the rounds, basically just visiting a web site with some specific code might allow a Russian based group of criminals to get your keystrokes and other data. Basically, anything that uses "Active X"
could be vulnerable. Microsoft just posted an update and if you run WindowsUpdate it'll grab it, but next thing you know the Dept. of Homeland Security will start telling everyone to get a Mac.