Oracle released emergency patches for Java on Monday to address two critical vulnerabilities, one of which is actively being exploited by hackers in targeted attacks. The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2013-1493 and CVE-2013-0809, are ...
Tags: Oracle, Emergency Fix, Java Vulnerabilities
Google is open-sourcing a new general purpose data compression library called Zopfli that can be used to speed up Web downloads. The Zopfli Compression Algorithm, which got its name from a Swiss bread recipe, is an implementation of the ...
The Dragons: Riders of Berk animated TV series launches this weekend, building excitement ahead of Spin Master's toy range. The show premieres on Cartoon Network on Saturday, March 2nd at 10am with an hour-long double bill. This will ...
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Ball Packaging Europe has designed new 33cl (11oz) beverage cans for HAINDL′S Bitter Lemon, Ginger Ale and Tonic Water drinks. The cans are decked with a Quick Response (QR) code which can be scanned by customers using their ...
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With the release of version 7.3 of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE (integrated developer environment) so Java developers can more easily build rich HTML5-based user interfaces for their mobile and Web applications. NetBeans 7.3 ...
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Mozilla today released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser. The integrated viewer was the one noticeable change to users, although Mozilla enhanced under-the-hood features as well for website developers, and added ...
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One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification. Since Mega was launched three weeks ...
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Verizon Wireless recently began listing "High Risk Android Apps" on its Web site and now alerts customers to 13 apps that prevent a smartphone or tablet from going into sleep mode, causing heavy battery and data usage. "This page lists ...
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NewsGator is re-architecting its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) suite so that it can be installed independently of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server. The decision isn't terribly surprising, given that Microsoft ...
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Groupon has acquired MashLogic, a company based in California that makes a simple tool called Britely to capture and collate bits of information from web pages. The announcement, posted on Britely's blog, did not disclose terms of the ...
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When there's a blizzard approaching, people flock to grocery stores for bread and milk, test their generators...and nowadays take to Twitter and Facebook. Social networks have lit up with activity as a blizzard of of potentially historic ...
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Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan ...
Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the US$12.7 billion online advertising industry by ...
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Creating some consternation in the Web development community, Opera Software is switching from a home-built rendering engine to the more widely used open-source WebKit, now employed in the Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers. "It ...
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Facebook is being sued by the family of a deceased Dutch programmer who held two patents dealing with sharing and updating social media content long before the social networking site launched. The suit, filed Feb. 4 in the U.S. District ...
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