A security lapse at Kaspersky has exposed a wealth of proprietary information about the anti-virus provider’s products and customers, according to a blogger, who posted screen shots and other details that appeared to substantiate the claims.

In a posting made Saturday, the hacker claimed a simple SQL injection gave access to a database containing “users, activation codes, lists of bugs, admins, shop, etc.” Kaspersky has declined to comment, but two security experts who reviewed the evidence said the claims appeared convincing.

Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is leaving Sun Microsystems, less than a year after Sun paid $1bn for the free-database outfit he helped build.

Sun has confirmed his departure a day after MySQL creator Michael “Monty” Widenius said he was finally leaving the company (to start his own restaurant).

In an email, a Sun spokeswoman said that Mickos would “transition out” of Sun by the end of the company’s fiscal third quarter. That gives him another two months in the job at most.

Mickos is billed as the senior vice president of Sun’s database group, and as he departs, the company will combine the database group with its software infrastructure group. This combined open-source-happy organization - known as the MySQL & software infrastructure group - will be headed by Sun veteran Karen Tegan Padir. Most recently, Padir served as vice president of the company’s enterprise Java platforms group.

With an estimated 10 million PCs infected by the stealthy worm known as Conficker, it’s a good bet that plenty of administrators are blissfully unaware that their networks are playing host to the pest. Now, a free service called OpenDNS is offering a new feature designed to alert administrators to the damage and help them contain it.

The company on Monday plans to introduce an addition to its offerings that makes it easy for admins to know if even a single machine has been infected by Conficker. The service will also automatically protect infected machines by preventing them from connecting to rogue servers controlled by the malware authors.

That’s a pretty tall order given that Conficker, which also goes by the name Downadup, instructs its drone machines to report to 250 different internet addresses each day. Without the service, admins would have to manually block 1,750 domains each week, or 91,250 each year.

The service will also help network admins to quickly pinpoint any infected machines by checking their OpenDNS Dashboard. Starting Monday, any networks with PCs that try to connect to the Conficker addresses will be flagged on an admin’s private statistics page. The service is available for free to both businesses and home users.

Some people have criticized Amazon for essentially making the Kindle a “closed” e-book reader system. However, word from Yahoo Finance is that it might not be so closed after all and that Amazon will be making its Kindle books available on a wide variety of mobile phones in the near future.

At this point, it’s unclear whether it will be offering up all its Kindle titles (the Kindle Store currently has about 230,000 e-books for sale) or just a fraction of them. Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener simply said the company is working on making Kindle books available “on a range of mobile phones.”

Additionally, Google announced Friday that titles from its Book Search service will be available for reading on the iPhone and T-Mobile’s G1, which uses Google’s Android operating system.

Google late Thursday unveiled a new Gmail Labs feature that allows users to have more than one inbox in their default Gmail view.

The new feature–called Multiple Inboxes–allows users to have multiple viewing panes open simultaneously without having to open another browser window. The upgrade gives users a quick view at important labels as well as saved searches.