"The hackers exploiting this unpatched hole in PowerPoint appear to have timed the release of their malicious code to deliberately follow Microsoft's monthly security announcement," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "The bad news for Microsoft and its customers is that there was no fix for this problem in that bundle of patches." Oops.

"The only people who are going to have a warm glow inside from the words of love in this presentation are likely to be the hackers behind the attack," observed Cluley.

IT laughs at itself

A British TV show has taken the best and worst of IT administrator stereotypes and packed them into a clever, side-splitting comedy.

The IT Crowd features Jen, who has been appointed as a supervisor in her company's IT department but knows nothing about computers. When asked during her job interview what she knows about IT, she says, "You know, e-mail. Sending e-mail. Receiving e-mail. Deleting e-mail. Um, I could go on."