DoS risk from Oracle9i debugging bug. Breakable [The Register]

Some of the comments from the secuirty review postmortens gave yesterday where that automated anaysis tools tend to baddly with services since they tend to have thier own runtime environments (threads, allocators, etc) and that databases have in the past been the most externally protected resources on a network such that they are only now discovering life on the open internet.

Computer virus threats on the decline?. Not a bumper crop [The Register]

Wolfram Introduces “A New Kind of Scientology”

Interview: Jeff Raikes outlines the future role of Office

Linux Is Gaining a Place at Sun, in Both Strategy and New Server. Trying to blunt a growing challenge to the low end of its business, Sun Microsystems plans on introduce its first computers running the Linux operating system. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

Microsoft names the day for Xbox online. The company will hit the switch on its Xbox Live online game-playing service a year after the console was released. But the timing could let Sony steal a march. [CNET News.com]

KDE smokes MS in SSL bug fix. Hardly a surprise [The Register]

Xbox Live set for November 15 launch. MS pins console dreams on the Internet [The Register]

Japanese protest at government Net numbers scheme [NeoWin]

Lawmakers lend an ear to tech worries. Improving the economy and boosting security top the agenda at a gathering of Democrats and tech execs. Intel’s Andy Grove takes the stage, presenting a wish list to politicians. [CNET News.com]