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  • Hackers exploiting Flash Player XSS vulnerability

    Adobe releases a Flash Player update in response to reports that a cross-site scripting vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in active targeted attacks.

    Blog posts | June 6, 2011 10:15am PDT

  • Emergency Adobe Flash Player patch coming today

    Less than a week after warning that hackers were embedding malicious Flash Player files (.swf) into Microsoft Word documents to launch targeted malware attacks, Adobe plans to release an...

    Blog posts | April 15, 2011 10:41am PDT

  • Adobe warns of Flash Player zero-day attack

    Malicious hackers are using rigged Microsoft Excel files to exploit a zero-day flaw in Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player software.

    Blog posts | March 14, 2011 1:02pm PDT

  • The wikileaks don't add up

    The wikileaks don't add up - not only couldn't the leaks happen as described without gross negligence somewhere, but the contents seem remarkably one sided.

    Blog posts | December 4, 2010 6:00am PST

  • Heads-up: Adobe fast-tracks fix for Flash Player zero-day

    In the wake of zero-day attacks against a critical vulnerability in its software products, Adobe is fast-tracking an emergency fix for the widely deployed Flash Player.

    Blog posts | November 3, 2010 8:06am PDT

  • A guy called Joe

    The world's best advice: "if it doesn't work, stop doing it", applies to mergers as much as to government - and ignoring it was probably Sun's single biggest mistake.

    Blog posts | October 2, 2010 12:15am PDT

  • Adobe patches Flash Player zero-day

    Adobe has shipped another Flash Player update to fix a critical vulnerability that was being exploited in live malware attacks.

    Blog posts | September 20, 2010 10:29pm PDT

  • Oracle OpenWorld: Exadata gets an upgrade

    At the Oracle OpenWorld conference today, company president Mark Hurd announces an upgraded Exadata system.

    Blog posts | September 20, 2010 9:59am PDT

  • Without Oracle support, OpenSolaris group breaks up

    An end has come to a major part of Sun Microsystems' attempt to transform Solaris from a proprietary version of Unix to an open-source operating system built by others, too.

    News items | August 24, 2010 4:53am PDT

  • As Solaris turns: HP, Dell to resell Oracle's OS; IBM out

    If you've been tracking the licensing and reselling of Oracle's Solaris operating system you can be forgiven for being a tad confused. HP, Dell are in, but IBM looks out.

    Blog posts | August 2, 2010 7:05am PDT

  • OpenSolaris board in OpenRevolt against Oracle

    One of Sun Microsystems' ambitious dreams, a vibrant open-source community for the Solaris operating system to rival the Linux collective, is in serious danger of evaporating in the Oracle era.

    News items | July 15, 2010 6:00am PDT

  • Virtual Reality Thinking

    It's too soon to comment on the SCO decision - so, instead, a thought or two on systems as language.

    Blog posts | June 12, 2010 12:15am PDT

  • AIX vs Solaris for job hunters

    When choosing between taking courses in Solaris or AIX with a view to making yourself more employable, the key considerations have to do with the type and quality of job you're going after, not...

    Blog posts | May 29, 2010 12:15am PDT

  • How Sun's need to control the code cost them the company

    Sun was the poster child of a company trying to retain complete control over everything they released into Open Source, and Sun vs. the Linux world was a wonderful example of the weakness of...

    Blog posts | March 2, 2010 4:43am PST

  • Quietly rejoicing

    And, speaking of the insanely great: iPad's A4 != x86 It's a PA Semi designed PPC/SOC derivitive.

    Blog posts | January 27, 2010 12:17pm PST

  • Scaring yourself and others

    Scary Halloween ghostshosts come in many guises -and the scariest ones in IT, at least for for non AIX users (where ghost processes are still common), are the OS ghosts invoked through...

    Blog posts | October 31, 2009 12:15am PDT

  • McNealy zings iPhone, laments the PC, claims Sun started open source

    Sunday night McNealy gave the audience at Oracle OpenWorld several more McNealy-esque quips on his take of the tech world and Sun's role in it.

    Blog posts | October 12, 2009 10:58am PDT

  • Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech innovations

    In what could be one of his last big appearances as the leader of Sun, Scott McNealy named his list of the top 10 innovations that have come out of Sun Microsystems.

    Blog posts | October 11, 2009 9:39pm PDT

  • Rocky dreams

    Everyone knows that Sun's ultraSPARC RT is dead. Right? Wrong - the strategic reason for not releasing it disappeared with the Oracle deal.

    Blog posts | September 19, 2009 12:15am PDT

  • Save money: buy from the enemy

    People keep joyfully telling me that real men buy wintel or lintel, never SPARC/Solaris - and the numbers on this are compelling: if the rate of increase in x86 price/performance falls by only 18%...

    Blog posts | August 22, 2009 12:15am PDT

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