Items tagged with NASDAQ: ORCL

by Seth Colaner - Thu, Aug 15, 2013

Google Determines Root Cause of Android Bitcoin Vulnerability, Offers Patch to Developers

You have to give a little credit to Google; just a couple of days after Bitcoin announced that it found vulnerabilities with Android wallets, the Android dev team figured out the root cause of the problem and issued patches to developers. (Google credited Soo Hyeon Kim and Daewan Han of ETRI and Dong Hoon Lee of Korea... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 25, 2013

It’s Official: Microsoft and Oracle Announce Enterprise Partnership

Microsoft and Oracle are teaming up in an official capacity to enable customers to run Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure, the two companies announced this week. As a result of the partnership, customers will be able to deploy Oracle software such as Java, Oracle Database, and Oracle... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Sun, Jun 23, 2013

Oracle and Microsoft Expected To Announce Cloud Service Partnership On Monday

Two of the world's largest enterprise companies may be about to shake hands in a deal that'll have massive implications across the entire cloud (er, industry). A new report suggests that Microsoft and Oracle are ready to "link their fortunes in the cloud," announcing at its upcoming BUILD conference a new partnership... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 19, 2013

Latest Java Patch Released Fixing 40 Security Flaws

Do you use Java? If so, be aware that Oracle just released its "June 2013 Critical Update for Java SE," a collection of code that provides 40 new security fixes. All but three of them are security holes that can be exploited from a remote location without any kind of authentication. Four of the vulnerabilities affect client and server deployments,... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Sat, Feb 02, 2013

Oracle’s Latest Java Patch Contains Huge Security Flaw Update of 50 Fixes

If our not-too-subtle hint a couple of weeks ago about the perils of having Java installed wasn't enough to convince you to uninstall, you should waste no time in heading on over to the official site and grabbing the latest version (7u13). When it comes to Java, the Swiss-cheese of the software world, it's important... Read more...

by Joshua Gulick - Mon, Jan 14, 2013

Emergency Java Fix Is Available, but Some Experts Still Worried

Software vulnerabilities are common, but it’s not every day that the Computer Readiness Team (CERT) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security steps in and starts warning the public. Not surprisingly, Oracle jumped on the security hole and released an update (Java Update 7u11) that resolves the problem. If... Read more...