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12 December 2008

heise online news 12/12/2008


heise online news 12/12/2008
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Slackware Linux 12.2 released

Only just over half a year after the previous version was released, the developers have once again updated what is probably the oldest Linux distribution

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Analysis of an exploit pack: IE6 still most commonly exploited target

Security provider Prevx has published the statistics of a publicly available exploit pack and while Opera users were also infected, Firefox users remained uncompromised

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December edition of the Silverlight Toolkit available

Microsoft has released the December 2008 edition of the open-source Toolkit for its Silverlight web presentation technology

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MS Malicious Software Removal Tool damages harmless software

An erroneous signature has led MSRT to remove the uninstall components of some software products. A new version of it is claimed to contain corrected signatures, but doesn't fix affected apps

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US court halts the sale of scareware

The FTC has obtained a temporary restraining order to prohibit two scareware manufacturers from selling their products. Scareware alarms users by falsely warning them that their PCs are infected and tricking them into buying dubious anti-virus products

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AGPL essential for the future of FOSS in cloud computing

The CEO of Funambol says greater use of the Affero General Public Licence is essential for FOSS to flourish in the future cloud computing environment

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Wordpress 2.7 released

Wordpress 2.7 comes with a new faster user interface and automated updating

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Firefox 3.1 beta 2 gets multi-touch

Without mentioning it, Mozilla's Firefox 3.1 beta 2 has acquired support for multi-touch gestures, but only on the Mac OS X laptops

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Mozilla's security chief leaves

Window Snyder joined Mozilla in September 2006 to be the company's security representative to the outside world is, for the moment, saying nothing of her future plans

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OpenSolaris 2008.11 officially released

Having first being made available last week, OpenSolaris 2008.11 is now officially released, along with some useful extra resources for those interested in the open source Unix

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