Open source: Dave Rosenberg rallies the open source community: Let’s go build a great open source MS Office replacement. “I would argue that not only is now the time for the emergence of a complete open source office suite, but that there are economic drivers that will make it a reality.” And MySQL signs a deal with Oracle to renew its licensing of the InnoDB database storage engine, presumably ending doubts about the impact of Oracle purchasing Innobase on MySQL. Podcasts: We kick off a new podcast, the Emerging Enterprise. Host Oliver Rist digs into SMB legal resource MyTechnologyLawyer.com, discusses how SSL VPNs can ease your remote access life, and more. Security: Unfortunately, it’s still a challenge to shut down the Web sites that participate in phishing and bot attacks, but “gone are the days when they are treated like petty offenders and given a slap on the wrist,” writes Roger Grimes in Gearing up for hacking takedowns. Dynamic DNS vendors are joining forces to identify and eliminate the biggest offenders so that hackers can’t move on to another unsuspecting vendor, and even Microsoft is gaining momentum in the hunt to close down rogue hacker sites, Grimes explains. And I won’t spoil the surprise ending, but let’s just say he figured out a way to work AC/DC into a tech column. Yes, the band AC/DC. Quoteworthy: Because of all that magic pixie dust, the people who write Web services don’t necessarily understand how they work. We have a lot of customers who are hanging unbelievably crazy functionality… just out on the Internet. — Security researcher Alex Stamos as quoted in Web services pose growing security risk. Search: Google upgrades toolbar for Firefox by injecting anti-phishing functions, and enhancing the search so that Google Toolbar 2 for Firefox can offer suggestions on the fly that narrow queries or correct spelling errors. MSN search was down yesterday from about 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time until noon. Technology Industry