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Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features 509

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @08:37PM from the closing-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From the MySQL User's Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base. Sun will begin with close sourcing the backup solutions to MySQL, and will continue with more advanced features. With Oracle owning Innodb, and it being GPL, does this mean that MySQL will be removing it to introduce these features? Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything."

SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned 182

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @03:47PM from the nuts-to-that dept.

SkiifGeek writes "Late last week the SquirrelMail team posted information on their site about a compromise to the main download repository for SquirrelMail that resulted in a critical flaw being introduced into two versions of the webmail application (1.4.11 and 1.4.12). After gaining access to the repository through a release maintainer's compromised account (it is believed), the attackers made a slight modification to the release packages, modifying how a PHP global variable was handled. This introduced a remote file inclusion bug — leading to an arbitrary code execution risk on systems running the vulnerable versions of the software. The poisoning was identified by a difference in MD5 signatures for version 1.4.12. Version 1.4.13 is now available."

Comment why is this posted under "Java?" (Score 1) 443

by Compay on Thursday November 10, 2005 @08:23PM (#14003642) Attached to: Why Microsoft and Google are Cleaning Up With AJAX

Javascript is not Java. Other than some of its syntax the only thing it has in common with Java is the name.

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