The latest Java zero-day vulnerability is already available to users of the Metasploit tool and Blackhole exploit kit, say security researchers. The Java vulnerability allows attackers to use a custom web page to force systems to download ...
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Java's recent security woes are not scaring off developers, who don't see Java as any more vulnerable than any other platform. "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Java," says Gonzalo Diethelm, in charge of architecture and development ...
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Microsoft may have known about last week's Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day bug for some time, according to its security advisory. The vulnerability, which was patched Friday in an emergency, or "out-of-band," update, first became public ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
The launch of Google Maps in Apple’s App Store last week has boosted iOS 6 adoption by 29 per cent, new data reveals. When iOS 6 launched in September, many iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users decided not to update to Apple’s ...
Tags: Google Maps, IOS 6 Adoption, Computer Products, App
Security researchers from Poland-based security firm Security Explorations claim to have discovered a vulnerability in the Java 7 security update released Thursday that can be exploited to escape the Java sandbox and execute arbitrary code ...
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Google is yielding control of its GWT (Google Web Toolkit) for browser application development to a multiparty steering committee, a Google official said on Friday. The company also introduced a release candidate of GWT 2.5, featuring ...
Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied firmware. Coppola, who is a security ...
Tags: SOHO routers, botnet clients, backdoored versions, firmware
Apple's refusal to put into writing its operating system support policy leaves Snow Leopard users wondering whether their copy of OS X has been retired, security experts said today. The question "Is Snow Leopard retired?" went legitimate ...
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Actian Corporation today announced that Vectorwise 2.5, the latest update of the record-breaking performance database, is generally available for download. Now even more well-equipped to tackle Big Data challenges, Vectorwise 2.5 delivers ...
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Kaspersky Lab has outlined key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013. The most notable predictions for the next year include the continued rise of targeted attacks, cyber-espionage and nation-state ...
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The judge who oversaw Oracle's lawsuit against Google said Monday that the search giant "has failed to comply" with an Aug. 7 order to provide the names of parties whose commentary on the suit may have been influenced by money. Last week, ...
Criminals are sending malicious emails that purport to come from payroll services firms in order to infect with malware the computers of payroll administrators from various companies, according to researchers from the SANS Internet Storm ...
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For the newest release of NetBeans, Oracle has equipped the open-source IDE (integrated development environment) to continuously run a static analysis tool, which could point out possible coding errors to developers as they write their ...
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With Oracle now in a self-imposed "quiet period" prior to its next quarterly earnings release, it's not likely the company will make any major announcements until its OpenWorld conference, which kicks off at the end of September. Given ...
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