heise online news 26/09/2008

heise online news 26/09/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Transmeta for sale The chip design company is looking for a prospective buyer for the entire company for its shareholders' benefit. In addition, Transmeta will receive a one-off sum of about $90 million from an agreement with Intel. › Read article     Cisco cleans up: Numerous DoS vulnerabilities in IOS resolved Cisco has published 12 advisories about vulnerabilities in its IOS router operating system and in Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Specially crafted packets can cause systems to reboot or freeze › Read article     Iron, a private version of Chromium from Germany A German software house has released Iron, a version of Google's Chrome browser with all the privacy-invading features disabled › Read article     Security updates for several Drupal extensions Drupal extensions "Brilliant Gallery","Ajax Checklist","Plugin Manager","SimpleNews" and "Stock" are all found to have vulnerabilities to SQL injection or XSS attacks; one problem has resulted in the removal of "Brilliant Gallery" from Drupal.org › Read article     Apple closes 27 security holes in Java Several of the holes are critical because they allow attackers to inject and execute code. The vulnerabilities are generally the same as those Sun reported and corrected more than two months ago › Read article     Gnome 2.24 released Gnome 2.24 is released, bringing with it numerous enhancements to the free desktop environment, ready in time for the next round of releases of Linux distributions › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.