Coffee lovers lower death risk, study says

'Sabpab' Trojan is latest threat to Mac users

Apple issues second anti-malware patch

Report: Indonesian ferry with hundreds aboard burns

MERAK, Indonesia - A passenger ferry with hundreds on board caught fire in Indonesia's Sunda Strait on Friday. Initial reports said there were fatalities, but it was unclear how many.

Sun Makes Java Tech. Open-Source Project

Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet.

(Reuters) - Google Inc's Android mobile platform has not infringed Oracle Corp's patents, a California jury decided, putting an indefinite hold on Oracle's quest for damages in a legal fight between the two Silicon Valley giants over smartphone technology. The verdict was deli …

Oracle released Java SE 7 Update 4 this week, which finally gives Mac owners the means to receive critical Java security patches at the same time they're available for users of Windows and Linux operating systems. The new release means that OS X should be receiving regular …

Hot on the heels of the antivirus firms targeting Flashback, Apple has released another Java update meant to identify and remove any infections of the malware. The company posted the update on Thursday afternoon both to its website and Software Update, making it the third  …

Apple is working on a tool to detect and remove a computer virus that has taken control of hundreds of thousands of Mac computers worldwide, but faces criticism for its apparently slow response to the threat.

We’ve entered a new era in Mac security, but there’s no need to panic. . . . Flashback is the name for a malicious software program discovered in September 2011 that tried to trick users into installing it by masquerading as an installer for Adobe Fl …

More than 600,000 Apple computers worldwide have been infected with the Flashback Trojan, leaving their systems’ security vulnerable to criminal hackers,  the Russian anti-virus firm Dr. Web reported. Over half of the infected computers are in the United States, and  …

I coordinated 128 victims of cyber crimes perpetuated by crackers who created a massive botnet that stole all user permissions, and every kind of software from every country, and committed 28 felony violations of the Rico Act on 100's of occasions. That's when I switched to Mac.  …

A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sites in Russia in a drive-by download attack, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab. Drive-by downl …

The new malware is a "particularly insidious" strain of Flashback, a Trojan virus first discovered in September, and is said to be increasing the infection rate. It tries to take covert control of Macs using three methods.

Blackhole is an exploit kit used to inject malware onto PCs that visit an exploit site, or are redirected to such a site from another, compromised website.

It's Java's turn!

Java 2.0 - Her and Biscuit are best friends.

(Reuters) - Two-thirds of Americans drink coffee, and many gulp down their first cup within an hour of awakening, according to a survey released on Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Google has tried once again to seal an email draft in which its engineer says that the technical alternatives to Java "all suck" - a damaging bit of evidence in the ongoing litigation over the use of Oracle's patented Java programs in Google's Android phon …

Mt. Dieng Could Errupt

Fear mounts as dangerous gas emissions increase at Indonesia’s Mt.

In addition to the new Backends, users of this release will find improvements to Task Queues. The changes will allow developers to create better apps that control the ways in which tasks are executed.

A judgement by a Texas jury against Google could have major implications for the search giant and the open source world said experts. The internet titan was found guilty of infringing a patent related to the Linux kernel and fined $5m (£3.2m).

The Indonesian military denied on Tuesday that it had ordered the Siliwangi command in West Java to encourage mainstream Muslims to occupy Ahmadiyah mosques and preach "the true path" of Islam. The denial follows statements by one of the Army's top generals, Maj. Gen.

Users of the ad-supported version of Spotify were hit by a malware-based attack on Thursday.

Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.

Oracle is once again ticking peeps off... "Opensourcers running a popular code management project have declared independence from Oracle by voting to fork rather than leave the giant in charge.

Via Google Satellite maps, which periodically refresh their images over a region. They did Java recently, apparently, as it shows the flooding reported as recently as January 18, 2011 where 11,600 houses were suddenly inundated by what the press called a 'tsunami'.

If you want to be a thorough-going world traveler, you need to learn 6,912 ways to say "Where is the toilet, please?" That's the number of languages known to be spoken by the peoples of planet Earth, according to Ethnologue.com.

Will Java become a kind of COBOL, widely used forever but not at the cutting edge of anything? Only time will tell.

Sophos has released its first report for its free Mac anti-virus software.

A new trojan horse has cropped up that affects Mac OS X (and Windows as well), primarily disguised as a video flitting around social networking sites.