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Coming from Oracle: 27 Database Server Patches
Oracle database administrators, start your patching engines.According to the Redwood City, Calif., vendor's Critical Patch Update pre-release announcement, the first quarterly update for 2008...
eWEEK Looking a Bit Kloogy? Worry Not, Reader
If you're finding our eWEEK site kind of kloodgy today, well, join the club. You might see gaping holes where artwork would normally be...
What Is Mozilla Weaving Now?
While the main release from Mozilla that most people are expecting is the Firefox 3.0 Web browser, there are groups within Mozilla that are...
Google Looking for Internal Security Cop
Clearly worried about the insider threat to its corporate assets, search marketing giant Google is looking for an Investigator/Threat Analyst to examine "deviations from...
QuickTime Under Seige: Another Zero Day Exploit Released
The year-long hacker assault on Apple's QuickTime media player has unearthed another serious security vulnerability affecting both Mac OS X and Windows users.The latest...
NY Attorney General Probing Intel
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has opened an investigation into Intel's business practices and is trying to determine whether the chip maker abused...
ICANN to Probe Network Solutions’ Domain Registration Policies
ICANN will investigate Network Solutions' domain registering policy in the wake of reports that the company was automatically registering domains based on user searches.ICANN's...
Fujitsu’s LifeBook s7211 Is Nicely Priced but Short on RAM
For $899, the Fujitsu LifeBook S7211 is a reliable machine that manages to pack a few high-end features into its 5.2-pound chassis. However, it...
Torvalds Still Will Not License Linux Under GPL v3
Unemployment among business-technology professionals has fallen to a decade low as the size of the IT workforce has risen to a record level in...
Yahoo Mail Comes Out of Its Social Shell
Yahoo plans to regain some of the luster it lost to Google, Facebook and other Internet specialists with a two-headed attack aimed at making...