By Jim Finkle

(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp’s Java software, amplifying security experts’ prior warnings to the hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web.

Hackers have figured out a way to exploit Java to install malicious software enabling them to commit crimes ranging from identity theft to making an infected computer part of an ad-hoc network of computers that can be used to attack websites.

Jan 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security
urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp’s Java
software, amplifying security experts’ prior warnings to the
hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to
surf the Web.

Hackers have figured out a way to exploit Java to install
malicious software enabling them to commit crimes ranging from
identity theft to making an infected computer part of an ad-hoc
network of computers that can be used to attack websites.

By Jim Finkle

(Reuters) – Computer users are being advised by security experts to disable Oracle Corp’s widely used Java software after a security flaw was discovered in the past day that they say hackers are exploiting to attack computers.

“Java is a mess. It’s not secure,” said Jaime Blasco, Labs Manager with AlienVault Labs. “You have to disable it.”

BOSTON (Reuters) – Michael Dell has lost of one of the key lieutenants he recruited to help him turn around his ailing computer company.

David Johnson, Dell Inc’s senior vice president for corporate strategy, has left to take a senior position with investment company Blackstone Group LP, according to Dell spokesman David Frink.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Warning to investors: major U.S. technology companies could miss estimates for fourth-quarter earnings as “fiscal cliff” worries likely led some corporate clients to tighten their belts last month and refrain from spending all of their 2012 IT budgets.

Tech companies usually enjoy a spike in orders in December as corporations use money left over in their budgets to buy goods on their wish lists – information technology products that are nice to have, rather than essential.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Warning to investors: major U.S. technology companies could miss estimates for fourth-quarter earnings as “fiscal cliff” worries likely led some corporate clients to tighten their belts last month and refrain from spending all of their 2012 IT budgets.

Tech companies usually enjoy a spike in orders in December as corporations use money left over in their budgets to buy goods on their wish lists – information technology products that are nice to have, rather than essential.

BOSTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Warning to investors: major U.S.
technology companies could miss estimates for fourth-quarter
earnings as “fiscal cliff” worries likely led some corporate
clients to tighten their belts last month and refrain from
spending all of their 2012 IT budgets.

Tech companies usually enjoy a spike in orders in December
as corporations use money left over in their budgets to buy
goods on their wish lists – information technology products that
are nice to have, rather than essential.

By Jim Finkle

(Reuters) – A Christmas Eve glitch traced to Amazon.com that shuttered Netflix for users from Canada to South America highlights the risks that companies take when they move their datacenter operations to the cloud.

While the high-profile failure – at least the third this year – may cause some Amazon Web Services customers to consider alternatives, it is unlikely to severely hurt a fast-growing business for the cloud-computing pioneer that got into the sector in 2006 and has historically experienced few outages.

By Jim Finkle

(Reuters) – A Christmas Eve glitch traced to Amazon.com Inc that shuttered Netflix for users from Canada to South America highlights the risks that companies take when they move their datacenter operations to the cloud.

While the high-profile failure – at least the third this year – may cause some Amazon Web Services customers to consider alternatives, it is unlikely to severely hurt a fast-growing business for the cloud-computing pioneer that got into the sector in 2006 and has historically experienced few outages.

BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology giant Oracle Corp said software sales growth will stay strong into the new year despite fears that there could be big tax hikes and U.S. government spending cuts that could cause a slump in spending by customers.

Shares of the world’s No. 3 software maker rose 1.3 percent after it reported fiscal second-quarter revenue and earnings that surpassed Wall Street forecasts.