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Java, a little hope?


The folks at Oracle made a public statement announcing they would do everything in their power to "fix" Java. What's interesting here is the reaction of people who are starting to realize that the whole debacle around this product could have been avoided if Oracle had acted immediately when the vulnerabilities were reported. Let's hope many will learn from this mistake.

Happy birthday Slammer!


On January 25, the Slammer computer worm celebrated its tenth anniversary. Back then, this worm managed to infect 75,000 computers within 10 minutes through a buffer overflow in Microsoft's database engine. Once again, a security update released 6 months before Slammer showed up could, had it been installed, have prevented the worm from spreading.

Operation Last Resort


Anonymous is back with an operation aimed at avenging the death of Aaron Swartz. An interesting analysis from the McAfee blog.