In pictures: The mixed fate of Sun tech under Oracle
From Java to SPARC, critical Sun technologies have lived on, been cut loose, or lost their luster in the four years since the Oracle acquisition
17 Jan | View galleries
Worried about insider threats? You should be, reports and experts all agree
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
Patch "without delay", Oracle tells its big enterprise customers.
MIT researchers look at serial Internet address hijackers to model behavior that could help good ISPs respond faster to bad ISPs.
An Australian IT consultant has been
David Braue | 02 Jul | Read more
Oracle wants its DNS customers to migrate from its Dyn service to Oracle Cloud services, but some of those customers are very unhappy.
Michael Cooney | 27 Jun | Read more
Update, update, update: Form that habit now, if you haven't already, to keep up with security fixes. The latest include the usual tweaks to fend off malicious attacks, and a fix to Java that should prevent it from disabling itself constantly. That would be nice.
Jon L. Jacobi | 01 Nov | Read more
While most of the fixes for Java, Database, and MySQL are run-of-the-mill, four are rated critical if the targeted user has administrator privileges
Fahmida Y. Rashid | 22 Jan | Read more
Quickly patching vulnerable software is key to keeping computer systems secure. Yet, consumers are increasingly leaving their systems open to attack by failing to patch two ubiquitous third-party programs: Oracle's Java and Adobe's Flash.
Robert Lemos | 01 Apr | Read more
Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.
Nancy Weil | 12 Dec | Read more