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10 December 2008

heise online news 10/12/2008


heise online news 10/12/2008
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More Microsoft open source: Oxite, a CMS and blogging system

What started out as a demonstration app for the ASP.NET MVC framework has grown into a complete personal blogging program and basic CMS - and it's all being published as open source

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Dojo Toolkit gets a bug fix release to 1.2.3

The Dojo JavaScript toolkit gets a bug fix release in what will be the last of the 1.2 releases

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Linux Defender - A new free initiative to protect open source software

A consortium of technology companies, including IBM, has launched a new initiative designed to protect open source software against aggressive patents

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Security vulnerability found in MS SQL Server 2000

An attacker could exploit a memory leak to remotely execute code in the server and no update is available. The security consultant who discovered the vulnerability recommends removing the stored procedure from SQL Server

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Second beta of Firefox 3.1 available

The second beta of the forthcoming version of Firefox contains several new features - notably, a "private browsing" function and the TraceMonkey JavaScript accelerator

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Appcelerator Titanium; open source competitor to AIR?

An open source competitor to AIR emerges in the form of Appcelerator Titanium, a Webkit based RIA platform

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OpenCL programming language adopted

The Khronos Group has issued specification 1.0 for the Open Computing Language, which is intended to ease the programming of heterogeneous parallel computers

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Google goes Native Client

A research project at Google aims to let downloaded native x86 code run in any web browser, safely

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New guide to finding and fixing the misuse of free software

The FSF Europe has co-published a guide for users and developers. It offers help on how to identify license violations and advice what to do about them

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Unofficial Port of Android Comes to Nokia's N810

Nth Code write an unofficial port of Android for the Nokia N810 and document the process in a white paper

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Vulnerabilities in Linksys WVC54GC wireless network camera

By delivering a specially crafted packet to the camera, an attacker can obtain the majority of its system configuration. The camera also provides an insecure ActiveX control

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Cooperation between Adobe and SpringSource

Adobe and SpringSource are cooperating to combine Rich Internet Application techniques with the Spring framework

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Windows worm builds a large Botnet

A recent Windows worm continues to spread rapidly due to users not applying MS updates. Reports say the worm has built a large botnet

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Apache Jackrabbit jumps to 1.5.0

Apache Jackrabbit 1.5.0 is now available to download; the incremental feature release is backwards compatible and includes a development preview of JSR 283

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PHP 5.2.8 fixes withdrawn PHP 5.2.7

PHP 5.2.8 is released, to fix PHP 5.2.7's magic quotes problem. The PHP developers also give a workaround for 5.2.7 users

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