heise online news 28/10/2008

heise online news 28/10/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news RSA: Downturn will stifle IT innovation Greater regulation resulting from the current financial crisis could divert IT resources towards compliance rather than improving productivity › Read article     Windows RPC hole being exploited already The Gimmiv.A program has been sighted "in the wild" and is said to infect Windows systems via the RPC hole › Read article     Open source XMLVM aims to allow Java apps to run on iPhone XMLVM is a project which, among its aims, looks to allow Java programmers to cross compile their code for the iPhone, using XML documents and XSLT transformations. › Read article     The Director of Public Prosecutions warns against an intolerable security state In one of his last speeches in office, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Sir Ken Macdonald, has criticized the use of ever more surveillance techniques as an irreversible intrusion into fundamental rights › Read article     Android mobile has a security vulnerability A visit to a crafted web site with an Android mobile phone could enable an attacker to inject and run code; Google is working on an update for T-Mobile customers › 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.