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Bagle author releases 'dangerous' assembler code

Two new Bagle worm variants and the worm's original assembler source code were spreading around the Internet on Sunday - a dangerous development, according to security experts. Read more »

Attack code released for IE hole

Exploit code for a new flaw in Internet Explorer could put systems at risk of remote attack, security experts warned Monday in the United States. Read more »

Exploit code makes IE flaw more dangerous

The threat posed by a critical flaw in Internet Explorer has been ratcheted up by the release of a program designed to exploit the vulnerability, security researchers warned on Thursday. Read more »

Open-source spat triggers legal threat

A small company is threatening legal action against some users of the open-source Mambo software for publishing content on Web sites, arguing that the package includes proprietary code. Read more »

Microsoft sues over source code theft

Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code. Read more »

Exploit code chases two Firefox flaws

Two vulnerabilities in the popular Firefox browser have been rated 'extremely critical' because exploit code is now available to take advantage of them. Read more »

Core Security finds critical Adobe Reader hole

A critical security hole in Adobe Reader could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, according to Core Security Technologies. Read more »

Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet

Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Read more »

VMware apologises for licensing bug

VMware's chief executive has apologised for the disruption caused by a licensing issue which resulted in the company's latest hypervisors, ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2, not powering on after being turned off. Read more »

Microsoft: Vista UAC designed to 'annoy users'

A Microsoft manager has said one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to "annoy users" in order to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure. Read more »

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Comparing SQL Server constraints and DML triggers

This article sheds some light on when to use constraints and when to use DML triggers. Read more »

Analyse your managed .NET code with FxCop

Check your .NET code for bugs and compare it against Microsoft's design guidelines via the freely available FxCop. Learn more about this code analysis tool. Read more »

Locate errors in your JavaScript code

When you debug JavaScript, you don't have the luxury of the powerful tools available in other development environments. Fortunately, you can fall back on some alternative techniques to locate problems in your code. Read more »

Managed code in SQL Server Yukon: a big deal?

One of the big features of Microsoft's next release of SQL Server is the ability to run managed code. How does it work, and is it a good idea? Read more »

Use MySQL to build your own CRM project

MySQL is great for building CRM Web site back ends through MySQL-specific features or tweaks to the source code. Here's how MySQL can help. Read more »

Parsing XML with Perl

This article focuses on one of the earliest and most frequently referenced core modules, XML::Parser. Read more »

Use class and sequence diagrams for modeling

UML is used as a representation of the Java programming language. Using sample class and sequence diagrams, you can see how UML conveys unambiguous code-mapping information to developers. Read more »

.Net develops advantages over Java

Developers have a number of reasons for favouring one programming environment over another. For those attracted by good technology, .NET is worth a look. Read more »

Build Web applications without writing code

This article gives an overview of Iceberg -- a tool for building Web application without writing code. Read more »

Take advantage of code platform advances by creating and using anonymous methods

With C# 2.0, Microsoft has introduced a new way to declare a delegate and the associated method called "anonymous methods." What are they and how to you use them? Read more »

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Blog (3)

AJAX applications and security

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON, gave a talk entitled "AJAX Security" at the recent Web Directions South conference. In this talk, Crockford discussed some of the security concerns with AJAX applications and what can be done to address them. Read more »

The future remains yesterday

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »

A new coat of varnish

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week featured plenty of coverage from the various conferences occurring around the country. All the while Builder's design gnomes were busy give the site a touch-up. Read more »

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