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Members of TeamHav0k identified another series of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in high-profile websites, including Oracle.com, FCC.gov and NFL.com.
While in the case of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Football League (NFL) the security holes were present on subdomains, in the case ... |
13 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The whole battle that HP is locked in against Oracle is something of a sore spot for both companies, and the former's CEO, Meg Whitman, had some things to say on the matter.
Meg Whitman recently agreed to an interview with CRN, where she talked about both past and future HP activities.
Among the questions tha... |
4 February 2012
06:39 GMT |
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One wouldn't think that a server processor could cause such a big fuss, but the whole Itanium debacle has gotten very heated, leading to a direct clash between Oracle and HP, the latter having, apparently, gained the upper hand.
This isn't a case of patent infringement, like the quarrel between Samsung an... |
1 February 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Researchers from the Vulnerability Laboratory have found that two other important public websites are vulnerable to remote attacks. This time, the sites belonging to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Oracle Solutions were identified as containing security flaws. Ucha Gobejishvili, also known as longrifl... |
28 January 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Oracle released the January Critical Patch Update (CPU) which addresses a number of 78 new security flaws across a large number of product families.
This quarter’s CPU resolves some important vulnerabilities, some of which may allow an attacker to remotely exploit a system.
Oracle Database, Oracle Outside, O... |
18 January 2012
05:09 GMT |
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Oracle revealed the security vulnerabilities that are about to be addressed with the release of the January 2012 Critical Patch Update.
The 78 weaknesses currently affect hundreds of Oracle products which is why it’s important that users update their software to make sure they’re protected against cyber... |
13 January 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Oracle released a new build for their virtualization product, branch 4.0, making the version number 4.0.16. It is a maintenance release aimed at improving overall stability and to fix regressions.
VRDP repairs are at the top of the list (screen corruption and screen freeze), but fixes include other parts of the bund... |
12 January 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Oracle announced that VirtualBox, a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprises and end users, has just reached version 4.1.8. Oracle implemented a lot of changes, and VirtualBox 4.1.8 is the proof that they are working hard to improve it. Here are some of the features of VirtualBox 4.1.8:· ... |
20 December 2011
07:37 GMT |
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Canonical announced a few hours ago, December 15th, that it will remove all Sun JDK (Java Development Kit) packages from the Canonical Partner repository.Because Oracle retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java", Canonical no longer has permission to redistribute new Java packages.Therefore, in the n... |
16 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The entire confrontation between Oracle on one side and HP and Intel on the other has not waned, but HP is determined to keep the Itanium going.
In comes project Odyssey, a new development roadmap that will somehow combine the Itanium platform with Intel Xeon processors.
Oracle already said that everything Itaniu... |
24 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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HP may be paying Intel to keep making Itanium processors, and is supposed to keep doing so for years, but it might soon come to pass that this isn't a viable marketing tactic anymore.
For those who don't know or remember, Oracle, earlier this year (2011) said it was no longer making new software for Itani... |
23 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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HP and Oracle have been exchanging barbs over the Itanium server processor platform for months, and the latest, big accusations from Oracle turned out to be true.
Granted, as with any court bashing, each side is doing its best to make its case as big and strong as possible.
Oracle took its turn the other day, say... |
23 November 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Last evening, November 9th, the Oracle Corporation proudly announced the immediate availability for download of their brand-new Oracle Solaris 11 cloud operating system.Oracle Solaris 11 is the first cloud OS from Oracle, supporting the security, scalability and performance requirements of cloud-based deployments.Wit... |
10 November 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Oracle's vice president of systems business recently shed some light on the company's policy regarding x86 servers, as it stated during a keynote speech that even if the company is not too interested in selling commodity x86 servers it's still willing to use these chips in machines running Oracle softw... |
5 October 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Oracle came out with a new release for its virtualization software, VirtualBox. The modifications include plenty of fixes and changes that affect all major platforms it’s been designed for (Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris).As far as the interface is concerned, from now on users should be warned when upon an ... |
4 October 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Oracle just announced the company will speed up the development of its next-generation SPARC T5 processor, which is expected to deliver higher performance thanks to the move to the 28nm process technology.Oracle has published its SPARC server processor roadmap in August of last year, and vowed to deliver a SPARC T-se... |
29 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Oracle did say it intends to release the new SPARC Supercluster at some point in the fourth quarter of 2011 and, for now, things appear to be going smoothly, with no delays in sight.
The supercomputing market is one that, like all other segments of the industry, has been advancing and growing more and more divers... |
23 September 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Oracle has recently let the whole world know that it has no interest in continuing with the development of Sun servers based on the x86 architecture as the company regards these as “commodity” items with low profit margins."I do not care if our commodity x86 business goes to zero. We do not make any mone... |
21 September 2011
09:32 GMT |
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The notorious Apache Killer that's been used for DoS attacks on HTTP servers met its doom after Oracle released a patch that should cover all the remaining holes, even some left untouched by the previous fix issued by the Apache Foundation.
Because they widely implement Apache, their applications were affecte... |
17 September 2011
04:50 GMT |
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The Oracle - Google patent lawsuit is great fodder for sensationalist headlines and some of the recent developments are quite interesting, like the fact that a Google engineer admitted that he had access to Sun (now part of Oracle) Java code when writing Google's version.
Less shocking and revealing, despite ... |
8 September 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Intel may still be speaking of the Itanium and that it plans to keep pushing it forward, but the waves caused by Oracle's decision to drop support for it were far reaching enough that HP's revenues swayed.HP and Oracle ended up taking things to court after the latter said it would no longer support the In... |
20 August 2011
05:36 GMT |
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According to a report from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, the most common unpatched vulnerabilities detected on people's computers are in Adobe and Oracle products.At the top of the list is the SING 'uniqueName' buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2010-2883) which affects older versions of Adobe Reader... |
19 August 2011
15:22 GMT |
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The Hot Chips conference may be going about its business, but it looks like the participants are all showing a remarkable lack of any new chips, as well as scarce information on upcoming models.International trade shows and conferences are usually an occasion where participants unveil the results of their latest res... |
19 August 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Oracle Linux 5.7, a Red Hat Enterprise clone created by Oracle, has been released. The latest version brings all of the new features and fixes found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, which has been available for a little over a week, plus a few patches of its own.
For all intents and purposes, it is fully compatibl... |
2 August 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Oracle has just released its quarterly security update addressing 78 vulnerabilities across its entire range of products, many of which are rated critical."Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply CPU [Critical Patch Update] fixes as soon as possible," the compan... |
20 July 2011
13:50 GMT |
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Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.0.12, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4 which improves stability and fixes regressions. The new version also fixes some compatibility issues with OS X Lion, the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system.
Released last week, VirtualBox 4.0.12 for Mac OS X is label... |
18 July 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Oracle is preparing to release a monster security update next Tuesday in order to patch tens of vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of its products. "This Critical Patch Update contains 78 new security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle products. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this Critical P... |
15 July 2011
10:50 GMT |
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In the latest episode of the dispute caused by Oracle dropping the Itanium platform, the lawsuit started by HP has earned the name of “abuse,” not that it has a chance to stop the legal proceedings any time soon.Some time ago, a fairly heated dispute awoke on the enterprise IT segment when Oracle decided... |
1 July 2011
03:58 GMT |
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HP and Oracle have been snapping at each other for months ever since the latter dropped Itanium support, and it looks like the conflict has finally gotten to the point of legal action, started by the former.Users keeping track of the happenings on the server market might know of the tensions between HP and Oracle.Th... |
16 June 2011
03:41 GMT |
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After several months of tensions and controversy, Oracle is now announcing that it will be donating OpenOffice.org in its entirety to the Apache Software Foundation to be part of the group's incubator program. The move comes after Oracle's clear disinterest in the office suite along with some moves which hu... |
2 June 2011
05:53 GMT |
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Oracle Linux 6.1, Oracle's Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, is now available for download, just a couple of weeks after RHEL 6.1 became available. Since Oracle doesn't stray too much from the original, there aren't any big changes compared to RHEL 6.1, apart from Oracle's own "Unbreakable Enterpris... |
1 June 2011
09:40 GMT |
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A new release of VirtualBox is available for Mac OS X from Oracle developers who’ve highlighted a trio of Mac-specific changes, as well as numerous general enhancements and fixes affecting all supported platforms.
Labeled as a maintenance release, VirtualBox 4.0.8 fixes incompatibility with recent Mac OS X v... |
18 May 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Customers looking to make the jump to Microsoft’s on-premise and Cloud data platforms can access version 5.0 of the SQL Server Migration Assistant to ease the migration process from their existing solution. SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.0 comes with support for Sybase, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Access, si... |
4 May 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Oracle has just released its quarterly security update addressing 73 vulnerabilities across its entire range of products, many of which are rated critical.Six vulnerabilities were fixed in the Oracle Database Server. Two of them are remotely exploitable without authentication and the highest CVSS score of these flaws... |
20 April 2011
11:00 GMT |
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It appears that Oracle really did step on some toes when it announced that it no longer planned to develop software for Intel's Itanium server platform, enough so that some clients are now demanding that it reconsider.The server market might not usually grab much attention compared to the consumer segment, but ... |
15 April 2011
04:27 GMT |
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It looks like HP and Oracle are not nearly done dishing it out over how the latter suddenly announced it had stopped making software for the Intel Itanium server processor platform, with the newest episode having HP appealing to Oracle's customers. Users involved in any way with the server industry may have le... |
30 March 2011
07:17 GMT |
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Google has managed to convince Java's creator James Gosling to join the company after he left Oracle earlier. He was employed by Sun, which created Java, when it was acquired by Oracle. Google is known to get a hold of tech superstars who enjoy very flexible responsibilities at the company, so the move is not th... |
29 March 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Oracle may have dropped support for a certain Intel server platform not long ago, but anyone worried that the same might happen to the IBM Power and x86 solutions need not fear, according to analysts.Some might know that, not overly long ago, Oracle announced that it was dropping software development for Intel'... |
28 March 2011
04:27 GMT |
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It looks like the recent decision on Oracle's part to cease developing software for the Intel Itanium server platform ended up pushing a few buttons, especially on HP's side of the camp. Questionable decisions on the IT market are definitely not all that uncommon, and it seems the latest one has sparked q... |
25 March 2011
08:25 GMT |
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Users may have heard of how Oracle stopped making software for a certain Intel server platform, and while parties are divided on how to view this turn of events, some analysts think it will be good for the company in the long run.The server industry can be said to have gone through some changes, or at least will exp... |
25 March 2011
04:42 GMT |
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It would appear that even Intel has certain areas where it does not perform well enough to meet its partners standards, to the point where a certain CPU platform has lost Oracle's support.Intel, being the world's greatest supplier of microprocessors, is, naturally, involved in practically every facet of th... |
23 March 2011
10:35 GMT |
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VirtualBox, the free virtualization solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been updated to version 4.0.4. A typical maintenance update, the release brings the usual bag of interface improvements, and plenty of fixes and tweaks.
Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, VirtualBox (now called “Oracle VM Vi... |
18 February 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Software giant Oracle and Fujitsu, Japan's largest IT vendor, recently announced that the two companies have extended their collaboration in order to build the next generation of UNIX servers, a move that most likely wants to challenge IBM's and HP's position in this field.
The announcement was shor... |
11 February 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Last evening, January 18th, Oracle updated its popular and powerful VirtualBox virtualization software to version 4.0.2. This new maintenance release brings lots of stability improvements and many bugfixes over previous versions.VirtualBox 4.0.2 binaries are available for download (see the link at the end of the arti... |
19 January 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Oracle's Critical Patch Update scheduled to land tomorrow will address a total number of 66 security vulnerability affecting numerous versions of its products.Several vulnerabilities carry the maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) 2.0 base score of 10.0. They affect Audit Vault, JRockit, Solaris and... |
18 January 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Lately most of the developments that have been taking place in processor design have concentrated on increasing the number of available cores, but Oracle is set to challenge this trend with its future Sparc T4 processor, the company just announcing it has cut in half the number of cores available on the T4 choosing t... |
8 December 2010
07:07 GMT |
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In the last few years the high performance database sever market has been the playground of companies such as IBM and HP, but Oracle is set to challenge that with its new SPARC Supercluster that was built by its subsidiary Sun and features no less than 1,728 processor cores.Compared to other database servers that are... |
6 December 2010
07:04 GMT |
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VirtualBox 3.2.12 has been released. It's a bug-fixing/maintenance release so don't expect anything too flashy. That said there are plenty of updates and fixes for both Linux guests and hosts and there should be no reason to hold back. The previous minor update added support for Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 14.F... |
2 December 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Oracle and Apple have announced the OpenJDK project for creating a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X. Under the terms of the agreement, Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and t... |
12 November 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Oracle has released a major batch of security fixes to address a total of 85 vulnerabilities, that affect software from twenty of its product families.The Oracle Database Server was affected by seven vulnerabilities, one of which is remotely exploitable without authorization.The affected Oracle Database versions are ... |
13 October 2010
12:21 GMT |
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