heise online news 07/10/2008

heise online news 07/10/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Update for Apple TV closes critical holes Two critical holes can be exploited to inject and execute code on Apple's streaming media box › Read article     DDOS attackers appear in US court Briton Lee Graham Walker and the German malware programmer Axel Gembe have appeared in a court in San Francisco charged with launching DDoS attacks to shut down two US web retailers in 2003 › Read article     OpenSuse 11.1 second beta OpenSuse developers release a new beta version patching the e1000e issue which had been disabling network adapters and updating a number of packages in the distribution › Read article     CERN starts the Peta-Grid To transfer and analyse the massive amounts of data from the biggest experiment in the world, CERN needed the biggest compute grid in the world: the WLCG. › Read article     Mono 2.0 adds LINQ and C# 3.0 support Version 2.0 of the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET has been released, with more .NET compatibility. › Read article     OOXML standardisation: Norwegian experts resign 13 of the 23 members of the Norwegian expert committee given the job of deciding on standardisation of the OOXML document format are quitting the body › 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.