Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but yet another Internet Explorer security hole has been revealed. Is there no end to the ways that IE can be broken into? It doesn’t look like it!
In this latest flaw, there’s an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers can use to drop malware on 32-bit Windows [...]
What was Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, thinking? Amazon just signed a patent cross-licensing deal that pays Microsoft intellectual property fees for, among other things, patents that cover Amazon’s Linux-based Kindle e-reader and its Linux servers. Too bad Microsoft has never, ever been able to show that its patents cover anything to do with Linux.
Mind you, [...]
More than a week after Microsoft released an XP patch that seemed to cause BSODs (Blue Screen of Death), Microsoft announced that the immediate cause was the Alureon rootkit. Fair enough, but what about the 17-year old Windows security hole that the rootkit was exploiting?
I mean, come on. This bug dates back to 1993 when [...]
Most of the attention on a recent report from ScanSafe, a Cisco-owned security company, has been on the fact that attacks on Adobe PDF Reader vulnerabilities comprise up to 80% of PC attacks. That’s actually not quite right. The ScanSafe threat report doesn’t cover programs that work directly with the Internet like Web browsers and [...]
The deal is done. Oracle now owns Sun. Oracle’s main message to Sun’s customers seems to be “Don’t worry, be happy.” That’s not easy when Oracle is not explaining in any detail what it will be doing with open-source software offerings like MySQL, OpenOffice, and OpenSolaris.
In general, we know that Sun’s software product catalog will [...]
