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Exploit Released for Critical PC Hijack Flaw
A fully working exploit for a high-risk vulnerability fixed by Microsoft two days ago has been put into limited release, prompting new "patch now"...
Eclipse Reaches Out, Joins Three Groups
The Eclipse Foundation has extended its reach into the open-source and broader Java development communities by joining a trio of organizations: the Java Community...
The Publishers Vs. Google
The best evidence of the great online-offline divide can be traced to the earliest days of the Web. As the Web was just creeping...
Happy Birthday EFF!!
Sixteen years ago technology luminaries Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow met on the Well and decided to form a new group...
MPAA: Google Should Help Stop Chinese Piracy
Now that Google owns a stake in Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., the search giant should urge the Chinese video site to quell piracy,...
Sun Promotes Throwing the Kitchen Sink at Java
Sun Microsystems is encouraging developers to throw everything including the kitchen sink into evolving the Java language.
While Sun has announced its plans to open-source...
Adobe Patches PDF Reader, ColdFusion Flaws
Desktop publishing software vendor Adobe released a trio of security patches on Jan. 9, two of which are aimed at fixing a cross-site scripting...
The Reshaping of the CIO in the Era of SarbOx
Gartner analyst French Caldwell has been covering governance, compliance and risk management since 2002. In a recent conversation with Baseline, he spoke about the...
Mock-up: What if Google Made a Yahoo-like Start Page?
A few weeks ago, when Jeremy Zawodny discovered that Google had ripped off a Yahoo page design, I thought it'd be fun to create...
5 Years After Enron, Technologists May Be Better Off
In parts of the business world, the term "Sarbanes-Oxley" has become synonymous with overbearing and counterproductive regulation. But the legislation itself may have improved...