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Oracle to be more selective in patch development

Oracle plans to stop automatically producing security patches for all systems its software runs on, instead creating fixes for uncommon combinations on request, the company said on Tuesday. Read more »

Microsoft warns of SQL Server vulnerability

Microsoft issued an advisory late Monday confirming a remote code execution vulnerability affecting its SQL Server line. Read more »

Microsoft probing ActiveX attacks targeting Access feature

Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning about targeted attacks being launched that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database management system. Read more »

Olympic trojan horse jumping trials have begun

Once again, criminal hackers are targeting a worldwide event to deposit their malicious software on victims' PCs, according to one security vendor. Read more »

Patch Tuesday skips Windows zero-day exploit

Microsoft on Tuesday issued security patches that plug critical holes in Microsoft Word and Publisher and a vulnerability in Windows for which a zero-day exploit has been available for weeks. Read more »

Cisco patches security-monitoring system

Networking giant Cisco Systems has fixed several flaws in a security monitoring product meant to protect networks against attacks. Read more »

Browser flaws biggest software security risk

Cross-site scripting flaws are now the most common vulnerabilities according to security experts. Read more »

IBM tunes up for Jazz open-source project

IBM is working on an open-source project called Jazz to promote programming tools for globally distributed teams. Read more »

Builder's August Top Ten

Have you missed any of the hottest technology development stories published in the past month? ZDNet Australia's Builder channel can help you keep in touch with the top ten stories of August. Read more »

Security group names top software risks

A security organisation published its fourth annual list of the most vulnerable software on Wednesday, putting network administrators on notice that they need to check their systems. Read more »

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Work around XForms' lack of browser support

XForms offers a way to implement Web forms, but most browsers don't support it. Use the Java Framework and Chiba to process server side XForms. Read more »

Advantages of using the ADO Command object

The Command object offers several unique advantages over the ADO Recordset object for programmatic data updating. This article gives specific code examples that display the Command object's flexibility. Read more »

A brief review of the EJB 2.1 specification

In this article, Builder.com gives you an overview of the advancements introduced in the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) 2.1 specification. Read more »

Debug an application remotely

Debugging can often be handled on a developer's local machine, but some problems exist solely in a test or production environment. This article shows how to debug remotely. Read more »

Ask Chuck: Creating Windows apps without a remote database

This week Chuck answers a Builder AU reader's question on creating Windows applications that users can edit without having to connect to a remote database. Read more »

Database consultants can't wait FOR XML

Have you heard about FOR XML? It can really give your applications a boost. This article gives you an overview of the power behind using FOR XML in your applications. Read more »

10 tips for sorting, grouping, and summarizing SQL data

Arranging SQL data that you can effectively analyse requires an understanding of how to use certain SQL clauses and operators. These tips will help you figure out how to build statements that will give you the results you want. Read more »

Diagnose SQL Server performance problems

Usually, the hardest part of database tuning is finding the code bottlenecks. SQL Profiler's traces can help you locate your sluggish code. Read more »

Diagnose SQL Server performance problems

Usually, the hardest part of database tuning is finding the slow part. SQL Profiler's traces can help you find your sluggish code. Read more »

Flash Remoting with ColdFusion Components

Flash Remoting makes it easy to use dynamic data in your Flash applications. Here's a complete demonstration of how it works. Read more »

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The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »

Repent Open Sourcerers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Anglican Diocese in Sydney is moving away from Microsoft technologies, Access and ActiveX provide another way for remote code execution and a local Aussie team wins the Imagine Cup. All that and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Lets Shindig!

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff Unlocking Android

    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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