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After putting up a wall protecting its iPhone technology, Apple instead started a war with developers -- but now the company is waiving the white flag.

In an effort to stop its technology and innovation from being stolen, Apple placed a non-disclosure agreement for its developers working on applications for the iPhone that went along with its iPhone OS 2.O before it was officially released.

Apple has filed for hundreds of patents on the iPhone technology and said it thought the NDA would add another layer of protection. So the company kept the NDA with the release of iPhone 2.0.

The federal courts in California will have their hands full with the brewing battle over RealNetworks' newly released software, RealDVD -- a program the company says is designed to enable "consumers to securely store, manage and play their DVDs on their computers."

Researchers have released software that exploits the recently leaked flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) software. That may mean IT admins are in for a long weekend of implementing and testing the patch.

IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered the bug earlier this month. The attack code was released Wednesday by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit, headed by the infamous HD Moore.

For all the hype over how many people downloaded Mozilla's Firefox 3 open-source browser in a five-hour period, there is now hype about how long it took security researchers to disclose a flaw.

Five hours after Mozilla officially released the much-anticipated update, Tipping Point confirmed a vulnerability. Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative program received notification about a critical vulnerability affecting both Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.