TweetShareThe Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems announced yesterday, April 20,2009, that the two groups have arranged a confirmed agreement in which Oracle will purchase the common stock of Sun Microsystems for $9.50 in cash per share. This transaction between the two companies has an estimated value of $7.4 billion which $5.6 billion net of the … Continue reading »
Apr
06
Zero-Day Attacks from PowerPoint
TweetShareMicrosoft is warning of attacks on their presentation software application, PowerPoint. Just by opening PowerPoint, a user can infect his computers and possibly other connected computers. Microsoft issued Security Advisory 969136 An attacker could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users who operate with full administrative user rights are especially vunerable. In … Continue reading »
