Please see below the findings from Kaspersky Lab's Q1 2012 spam report. The
main topics that emerged during the last quarter included the increase in
spam during the holidays, mass mailings, malicious attachments and the
distribution of phishing attacks.
Holiday season
The first quarter of the year was littered with holidays and spammers tried
to make the most of this. Be it Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day or Easter
- it seems there's no holiday that won't get a spammer working overtime.
However, in Q1 of 2012 the share of spam in mail traffic was down 3
percentage points compared to the previous quarter, averaging 76.6 per cent.
"The drop in the percentage of junk email was in no little part down to the
combined efforts of Kaspersky Lab and the CrowdStrike Intelligence Team,
HoneyNet Project and Dell SecureWorks research groups. Their work resulted in
the neutra... (more)
Do we need programming languages?
You may think that the answer is no. But, if you go by the recent trend you
may need to change your mind.
Why is Google working two (GO, DART) new programming languages? Why has IBM
(X10), Cray (Chapel) and Red Hat (Ceylon) working on creating a new
programming language of its own?
Why have the attendees of the QCon London have selected 5 (HTML5, DART,
Scala, Clojure, Node.js) new languages as the most important software
development trends for 2012? What does Neil McAllister mean when he says that
these 10 (DART, Ceylon, GO, F#, OPA, Fantom, Zim... (more)
On the surface, everything seems fine. If you do a search, you'll see lots of
people offering support for cloud-centric application frameworks. But, when I
speak with companies actually moving Java applications into the Cloud or
trying to create new Cloud services based on Java, I get a different story.
It's not the application in many cases that's in the way, it's the JVM.
An example that highlights these issues comes from one of our partners,
Intalio. Intalio offers Cloud solutions based mostly on open source. They and
their customers are frustrated by the fact that Java can't t... (more)
Of late patents around mobile technologies have been in the news. Four high
profile news items are (1) Oracle suing Google for Java patent violation, (2)
Apple and Samsung fighting each other in different parts of the world,
Microsoft, Apple, Rim and others jointly buying Nortel patent library for
$4.5 billion and (4) Google buys Motorola Mobile and gets 17,000 patents.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. This diagram from Reuters shows the
complex battlefield of mobile patent and significant portion of these patents
are for software.
In the sideline of this patent war, a debat... (more)
REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/16/12 -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)
released a letter to Itanium / Oracle customers, which can be read here:
http://www.oracle.com/itanium.
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in
your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), visit
www.oracle.com.
Trademarks
Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Contacts
Deborah Hellinger
Oracle
+1.212.508.7935
Email Contact
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