Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined Oracle in an appeal against a court decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. The three companies on Tuesday filed an amici curiae brief in support of ...
Apple on Tuesday said that some computers belonging to its employees had been targeted by hackers originating from China – the same group, reportedly, that last week infiltrated computers belonging to Facebook employees. ...
IDG News Service - Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised. The attack comes two weeks after Twitter asked 250,000 of its users to reset ...
Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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Facebook has admitted that laptops belonging to its employees were recently infected by malware, blaming a zero-day Java exploit for the incident. Users of the social network will be concerned that their private data may have been ...
Tags: Facebook, malware, zero-day Java exploit
Oracle isn't done releasing patches for Java SE this month, as another batch will arrive Feb. 19, according to a company blog post. On Feb. 1, Oracle pulled the trigger early on the February release, which had originally been scheduled ...
Rackspace plans to add 1,000 people to its staff of about 5,000 over the next two years. It is doing so under an agreement with the state of Texas, which will help train its workers. The state is providing a $2.5 million grant for the ...
Despite recent headlines about its security woes, Java has returned to the top spot in a monthly assessment of the popularity of programming languages, 10 months after being supplanted by the C language. The Tiobe Programming Community ...
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c , which shipped in August 2009, continued to resist retirement last month, new data showed. January statistics from Web analytics vendor Net Applications pegged Snow Leopard's share of all Macs at 28.2%, half a point higher than the ...
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An appeals court should rule, as a matter of law, that Google's commercial use of Java in a market where Oracle already competed was not fair use, the software company said in a filing. "This Court should not stop at finding that Google ...
The head of IBM's mainframe group is looking to bring mobile and social workloads into the platform in another move that would help the mainframe stay relevant and fend off competition from lower-cost systems. The mainframe has confounded ...
A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware over the Web, security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro reported Wednesday. ...
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Microsoft today said it will issue 12 security updates next week, including two for Internet Explorer (IE), that will patch a near-record 57 vulnerabilities in the browser, Windows, Office and the enterprise-critical Exchange Server email ...
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Adobe has released an emergency patch to fix at least two zero-day vulnerabilities being used to install malware in its Flash Player software that could allow attackers to control affected systems. Hackers had exploited security loopholes ...
Oracle is once again attempting to prove that Google illegally copied unlicensed software code in its Android mobile operating system, but this time the Java developer is invoking the spirit of Harry Potter to push its claim through the ...
Tags: Oracle, Google, unlicensed software code