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Jury reaches partial verdict in Oracle, Google copyright dispute

The messy copyright fight between Oracle ( NASDAQ: ORCL ) and Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) reached some tentative closure last week when a jury arrived at a partial verdict in favor of Oracle.

Underground hackers' BlackHole exploit kit updated with new Java attack

A widely disseminated exploit kit popular with hackers has been updated to take advantage of a recently discovered Java vulnerability. Named CVE-20120-0507, the flaw essentially allows hackers to

The bandwidth risk in cloud computing

Security concerns continue to dampen enterprise eagerness to move applications to the cloud, but there is another cloud computing risk that could bring down doom if not anticipated: bandwidth

Many browsers run insecure plug-ins

Security management company Qualys has found that a large number of web browsers run out-of-date plug-ins that open the door to security exploits. This was the conclusion based on 420,000 scans done

Researchers tap into CAPTCHA to overcome problem of weak passwords

Researchers think they have found a way to get around the problem of users forgetting complex password. As reported by Network World, researchers outlined a new method in their paper titled " The weak

Open source CMIS implementation Apache Chemistry graduates

Apache Chemistry has moved from the incubation phase to a Top-Level Project, according to not-for-profit Apache Software Foundation. The open source implementation toolkit provides an interoperable

Amazon launches Elastic Beanstalk for easier deployment of Java Web Services

Amazon this week launched the beta release of a new service called the Elastic Beanstalk, which was created to help Java developers quickly deploy and manage applications within the AWS cloud.

Java exploits at all time high, patch if you have not done so

The number of Java exploits out there is at an all-time high, and users should hasten to update or patch their Java installation if they have not already done so. What many users do not realize is

Apache Foundation plans to vote down Java 7

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is charging that Oracle has chosen to willfully disregard the licensing terms for its Java technology, and says it intends to vote against the approval of Java

Google "directly copied" our Java code for Android, says Oracle

Oracle ( NASDAQ: ORCL ) has updated its lawsuit against Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ), and is now claiming that the latter has "directly copied" programming code from its Java code. Oracle acquired Sun earlier