Oracle infested with bugs

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Oracle patches SSL server bugs

Oracle patches SSL server bugs 12/09/2003 08:25 AM
Computer Weekly Dec 9 2003 7:11AM ET

Security Bugs in Oracle, Lotus Products

Security Bugs in Oracle, Lotus Products 02/19/2003 09:50 AM
NGSSoftware has released a slew of security alerts for vulnerabilities in enterprise products from Oracle and IBM's Lotus.

PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware

PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware 04/16/2004 07:40 AM
vnunet.com Apr 16 2004 11:55AM GMT

Trojan-infested? I'm Sorry, Your Time is
Up

Trojan-infested? I'm Sorry, Your Time is
Up 04/13/2005 04:36 AM
An Australian ISP is pulling the plug on users whose computers have been compromised until they clean up their machines. Telstra Bigpond has begun disconnecting users whose computers had been infected. "Customers with suspected compromised PCs are being contacted where possible to encourage them to rectify the issue and if necessary are being disconnected from the network while the issue is rectified," the ISP said.

Bigpond is Australia's largest ISP, but said that its network was being so overwhelmed with bogus DNS requested that some customers were reporting slowdowns in legitmate uses. The ISP said it had also boosted the capacity of its DNS server.


"Ongoing investigations have identified Trojan-infected customer PCs as the likely source of the false DNS requests," BigPond said. "Customers contacted in recent weeks in relation to their PCs issuing large numbers of false DNS requests have been found to have PCs infected with various viruses and trojans and lacking network security."

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The Average PC is Infested with Spyware

The Average PC is Infested with Spyware 04/16/2004 05:01 PM

Average computer infested with spy
software

Average computer infested with spy
software 04/16/2004 11:32 AM
BBC Apr 16 2004 4:22PM GMT

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs

Report: Third of spam spread by
RAT-infested PCs 12/03/2003 02:40 PM
About 30 percent of spam on the Web is relayed through PCs compromised by malicious programs known as Remote Access Trojans, according to a corporate spam and antivirus company.

Trash Removed From Vermin-Infested House
(AP)

Trash Removed From Vermin-Infested House
(AP) 08/05/2004 11:00 PM
AP - Bulldozers and dump trucks hauled away more than 20 loads of trash and waste from a vermin-infested house on Thursday that had been the subject of complaints for decades.

Re: (IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because
of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs

Re: (IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because
of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs 07/07/2004 02:41 PM
Thomas C. Greene (Jul 06 2004)

(IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of
Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs

(IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of
Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs 07/01/2004 10:30 AM
Drew Copley (Jun 30 2004)

A First! Oracle and Microsoft to
Co-Present at Oracle Development Tools
User Group Conference

A First! Oracle and Microsoft to
Co-Present at Oracle Development Tools
User Group Conference 06/17/2005 04:31 PM
Market Wire Jun 7 2005 5:13PM GMT

Oracle Corporation Senior Executive
Slated as Keynote Speaker at NCOAUG Free
Oracle Training Day

Oracle Corporation Senior Executive
Slated as Keynote Speaker at NCOAUG Free
Oracle Training Day 07/08/2004 02:21 AM
Oracle Corporation's Executive Vice President of North America, Keith Block, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming North Central Oracle Applications User Group Free Summer Training Day on August 13 in Chicago. [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

Acquisition Helps Oracle Bust Out of
Oracle-Only Identity Management

Acquisition Helps Oracle Bust Out of
Oracle-Only Identity Management 03/28/2005 11:20 PM
The purchase of identity management vendor Oblix will enable Oracle to cater to heterogeneous shops, rather than the Oracle-only customers to which it has catered.

Oracle reverses decision on
decommissioning Oracle 8i database

Oracle reverses decision on
decommissioning Oracle 8i database 12/07/2003 09:46 PM
Computer Weekly Dec 7 2003 9:15PM ET

PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle Rush to Certify
Apps for Oracle 10g

PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle Rush to Certify
Apps for Oracle 10g 04/21/2004 05:10 PM
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to adopting Oracle's major new release—Oracle Database 10g—will soon be overcome, as PeopleSoft, Oracle itself and SAP ready 10g-certified applications that will be out in the fastest certification release cycle ever for a major Oracle database release.

Oracle Tip: Generate SVG from Oracle
Spatial data

Oracle Tip: Generate SVG from Oracle
Spatial data 07/12/2004 02:41 AM
CNET Jul 12 2004 7:11AM GMT

Bugs are everywhere!

Bugs are everywhere! 05/25/2004 05:52 PM
On Fornication And Genetics in The Breedster Age The site which launched a social networking app based around insect fornication and copulograms, gave rise to mass projects, insect personals, and even racist clans now presents some early findings including interesting animations of a populated world.

Microsoft's War on Bugs

Microsoft's War on Bugs 08/31/2004 06:23 AM
eBCVG.com Aug 31 2004 11:11AM GMT

What Will Bugs Feel Like?

What Will Bugs Feel Like? 05/12/2004 08:12 PM
Two months ago I spilled water directly into my laptop. Looked dead. I let it dry for a while and the screen came back, with static fuzz that faded into clarity after a week. Problem was, I lost the best...

It's About Buzz, Not Bugs

It's About Buzz, Not Bugs 07/23/2004 11:16 PM

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It’s not about about being a serious beta tester anymore, these days it is about being one of the few or one of the first. This trend has really shown it’s face lately with the beta program for Google’s Gmail. While it is not a state secret that it is a beta service being offered by Google, you practically have to be royalty to get yourself invited to become a user. The odd thing is…

Several Things about IE bugs

Several Things about IE bugs 12/13/2003 04:07 PM
Liu Die Yu (Dec 13 2003)

Bugs are Free

Bugs are Free 03/13/2003 10:14 AM

Speaking with Dare today helped me to clarify one of my motives for doing "open source" things -- a motive that I suspect is shared by many.  This particular motive stems (in essence) from the psychology that "bug fixes should be free".  It's not about fixing bugs, but the psychology is closely related:

When writing code, programmers usually have some goal or outcome in mind -- some valuable vision which they wish to materialize.  The path between vision and realization is never as clear and clean as one initially imagines, though.  Nowhere is persistence in the face of disappointment more important than in computer programming.  Along the path from vision to reality, the programmer encounters many obstacles which warrant an attitude "it shouldn't be so hard to embed a web page in a WinForm!" or "why the heck didn't the docs say that this was a zero-based index??"  There are many things that one encounters when programming which are simply wrong, in a fundamental "the universe is not right" sense.

I believe that most programmers do not want to give away their valuable end-product without some kind of significant reward.It is unlikely that someone would sink the sort of psychological and material investment necessary to produce good software if they perceived it as being worthless.  On the other hand, the psychology will be quite different for code that was written to overcome obstacles on the path to realizing that vision.  When someone looks at a piece of code and thinks "I never should have been forced to jump through so many hoops to accomplish such a simple task", they are far more likely to think that the code should see wide distribution.

Of course, one could say that the act of eliminating a common road-block that has plagued other programmers is valuable, and therefore should be priced accordingly.  In fact, this is the case.  Much of the software industry produces "platform" products which are essentially middlemen sitting between (and ideally assisting) programmers and the real-world "solutions" that they create.  I think that the real psychological difference, however, is the way that software producers view their obstacles.  Even if you are writing "platform" software which is not directly addressing real-world solutions, your software is "real-world" to the extent that someone will pay you licensing fees for it (in other words, it could be very real value as far as you're concerned).  On the other hand, every unexpected obstacle that "shouldn't have been a problem in the first place" will be perceived by most as annoying expenses that reduce the profit margin (monetary or otherwise). 

Happiness isn't a universal right, but pursuit of happiness is.People are far more likely to be altruistic about removing unreasonable obstacles (as perceived by them) to the pursuit of happiness.

 

Bugs, Exploits Dog XP SP2

Bugs, Exploits Dog XP SP2 08/19/2004 12:22 PM
Microsoft offers a hotfix for loopback bug, while security researchers report a new vulnerability in SP2 that could allow a malicious Web site to deposit an attack program on a user's system.

Yahoo's Web Bugs: How to Opt Out

Yahoo's Web Bugs: How to Opt Out 05/11/2004 01:22 PM

A reader alerts me to Yahoo's use of Web Bugs, invisible files that let the company track a variety of behavior "inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Yahoo! products and services." Yahoo says no personally identifying information is collected, but since it knows who you are when you're doing email, that's a distinction without a difference, I think. Anyway, here's a page where you can opt out. Yahoo calls them "Web Beacons," a rhetorical trick. Note that you have to do it for each browser you use, and the browsers have to accept cookies. Also note that when you opt out you get a page that makes it all to easily to inadvertently opt back in. Be careful. For more information on web bugs, see this page by Richard Smith.

Re: Several Things about IE bugs

Re: Several Things about IE bugs 12/15/2003 02:04 PM
http-equiv_at_excite.com (Dec 15 2003)

Re: [XSS] PHP-Nuke 7.4 Bugs

Re: [XSS] PHP-Nuke 7.4 Bugs 09/07/2004 06:23 PM
Blaine Elzey (Sep 05 2004)

The Reality of Bugs

The Reality of Bugs 11/13/2003 12:38 AM

As some comments in my previous blog entry illustrate, I think people simply don't grasp the magnitude of the Web. There are (conservatively) 10 million Web sites on the Web. Let's say (conservatively) that each Web site has 50 unique Web pages. That's 500 million Web pages that the Web browser has to work perfectly on.

Let's imagine that the browser has done a fantastic job of emulating all the quirks of WinIE and Netscape 4, and that it is really good at laying out malformed HTML. An awesome browser would be (conservatively) 95% compliant, which means that it would have some sort of bug or problem on 5% of those 500 million Web pages.

5% of 500 million Web pages is 25 million malfunctioning Web pages. Let's now assume that only 10% of those Web pages are even seen by someone using Safari itself. Now we're down to 2.5 million pages seen by Safari users.

If only 10% of those users even bother to report a bug, that's 250,000 unique bugs that have to be screened.

This is the reality of the Web. People are constantly shocked and amazed that their pet bug hasn't been fixed in subsequent releases (e.g., in Mozilla or Safari), but those people simply don't understand how many hundreds of thousands of bugs their particular problem is competing with.

BUGS - The Bug Genie

BUGS - The Bug Genie 11/12/2003 11:34 PM
1.1 RC1 is uploaded!

Flying bugs

Flying bugs 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:04PM GMT

I see bugs, people

I see bugs, people 12/02/2003 04:59 PM

Bugs Online

Bugs Online 04/19/2004 11:04 PM
User Updates

Bugs found in EU, US

Bugs found in EU, US 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
Bit old tech for them, we reckon...

Oracle v. DOJ: PeopleSoft put pressure
on Oracle

Oracle v. DOJ: PeopleSoft put pressure
on Oracle 06/25/2004 04:58 PM
special coverage Justice Dept. shows Oracle e-mail, says innovations were driven by PeopleSoft rivalry.

Oracle Linux vs. Oracle Windows

Oracle Linux vs. Oracle Windows 08/09/2004 05:42 AM
CNET Aug 9 2004 10:09AM GMT

Oracle v. DOJ: Oracle president
backpedals

Oracle v. DOJ: Oracle president
backpedals 06/18/2004 08:50 PM
CNET Jun 19 2004 0:45AM GMT

Microsoft's New Model Has Some Bugs

Microsoft's New Model Has Some Bugs 10/29/2003 10:21 AM
Its not every week that technology stalwart Microsoft sheds 8% off its share price, as it did last week after the company reported a steep drop in deferred revenue. Punishing the stock with its steepest one-day price decline in at least three years may have been an overreaction. But it did underscore some wrinkles in Microsoft's new subscription-payment plan.

PHP Team Patches DoS Bugs

PHP Team Patches DoS Bugs 04/01/2005 08:45 PM

Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs

Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 11/18/2003 08:07 AM
Big Bucks for Big Bugs

Mozilla to pay bounty on bugs

Mozilla to pay bounty on bugs 08/03/2004 05:47 AM
Wanted: Dead or alive
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