The H Week – Microsoft holes and the Oracle/Sun deal closes

his week’s news on The H was dominated by repercussions of the targeted attacks on US companies and reports on the holes in Microsoft software that the attackers exploited. Final efforts were made by the ‘free MySQL’ campaign as the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems approached its conclusion.

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