Bad news: Vaclav Havel passed away. Great news: Kim-Jong Il croaked.
Security Notes, Part 1
SANS is publicizing an Australian agency's vulnerability assessment publications. They have a document for implementing their top four priorities on Windows machines, as well as a guide for assessing patch risks. Most of this stuff is fairly straightforward, I believe. Roy Ernest has a good article on Change Tracking in SQL Server. I'm looking forward…