heise online news 07/11/2008

heise online news 07/11/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news WPA alleged to be crackable in less than 15 minutes A presentation has been announced for the coming PacSec 2008 security conference that promises to show how communications can be snooped, even if they are secured using WPA/TKIP, without cracking the TKIP key › Read article     Lord Chief Justice says the internet generation could be unsuitable as jurors The Lord Chief Justice fears that the internet-using generation is no longer accustomed to listening for prolonged periods. › Read article     Adobe releases Flash Player 9.0.151.0 after all The update closes the holes that appeared in version 9.0.124.0 in mid October and have already been closed in version 10.0.12.36. Adobe had initially planned to discontinue its support of the series 9 versions › Read article     Kolob super computer uses Nvidia's Tesla GPU Researchers at the University of Heidelberg are using Nvidia graphics processors for complex astrophysical calculations in their 'Kolob' cluster. › Read article     Root rights on Google's Android A Telnet daemon run by a terminal program allows a user to log in to the Android based G1 with root rights and change the system › Read article     New critical vulnerabilities in VLC media player Buffer overflows, which can be exploited by an attacker to inject code onto a system and execute it with the user's privileges, can occur when parsing CUE image files and RealText subtitle files › Read article     Google withdraws from service agreement with Yahoo Google announced today that it was withdrawing from its service agreement with Yahoo before it could even be implemented. The Search engine giant had been unable to deflect the concerns of the regulators › Read article     Security hole in ndiswrapper for Linux The hole is caused by a buffer overflow, triggered when excessively long Extended Service Set IDentifier (ESSID) are processed. According to a report by Ubuntu, this allows code to be injected into a system and executed at kernel privilege level › Read article     New Wayland X server looks to how a modern desktop works The Wayland project implements a lightweight X server for modern composite desktops › Read article     Microsoft launches BizSpark, a program to give start-ups a leg-up BizSpark provides start-ups developing software or services with access to Microsoft development tools and production licenses of server products at no upfront costs › 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.