Security Explorations posted on their website that they sent the vulnerability notice of what they're calling issues 54 and 55, along with proof of concept code, to Oracle. The software giant confirmed that it received the report and successfully decrypted it. Now it says it will investigate based on the data provided and get back to us soon, Security Explorations noted. Security Explorations CEO Adam Gowdiak, in a discussion with Softpedia, noted that the flaws allow [hackers] to abuse the Reflection API in a particularly interesting way...Without going into further details, everything in...

MySQL 5.6 comes ready for production use now after nearly two years of development. This version can credit its improved speed and efficiency to upgrades to the InnoDB storage engine. As a result, the software can scale better on systems of more than 48 concurrent processor threads, making it noticeably faster than its predecessor for most tasks. MySQL 5.6 also boasts improvements to its query optimizer, shortening execution times - quite dramatically, in some cases. Some queries that used to take days to run will now complete in seconds. The database software also handles replication faster ...

The recipient of the funding, Continuum Analytics, produces Anaconda, which the company describes as a collection of premium features for Python that enables large-scale data management, analysis, and visualization for Business Intelligence, Scientific Analysis, Engineering, Machine Learning, and more. Users can purchase Anaconda for $249, try it out free for 30 days, or download Anaconda Community Edition (CE), the completely free version of the product. Derrick Harris, writing for GigaOm, explained that Anaconda supports NumPy and SciPy, two popular scientific Python libraries. He also n...

Before I bring you up to date as to February, let me review last month. As covered by John Leyden over at The Register, back in mid-January Oracle released a version of Java 7 that plugged a nasty vulnerability which had already been spotted and used in the wild. Users had to get the update because the exploit for the bug had been 'weaponized' and bundled in widely available black-market hacking toolkits in the week prior to Oracle's release, Leyden noted. Even the US Department of Homeland Security, along with antivirus firms F-Secure, Sophos, and others, warned browser users to turn off Ja...