heise online news 29/01/2009

heise online news 29/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Asymmetric encryption for BlackBerry A special asymmetric type of encryption, via AES keys, is to provide safer data traffic to and from BlackBerry devices › Read article     PayPal joins OpenID Foundation Board PayPal has joined the OpenID Foundations board today as a sustaining member › Read article     Cacti - Monitoring via Web browser The data collection and analysis tool Cacti, which is well suited to monitoring networks and servers, has been updated to version 0.8.7c, over a year since its last release › Read article     Kernel Log: New stable kernels, AMD 3D documentation and Mesa 7.3 released 2.6.27.13 and 2.6.28.2 contain bug fixes and minor improvements; the wisdom or otherwise of Linux staging is being discussed; a new memory manager for the kernel; Mesa 7.5 to incorporate Gallium3D; new Intel graphics drivers; ALSA 1.0.19 released › Read article     New features in KDE 4.2 The KDE team has released version 4.2 of KDE 4. According to the development team, KDE 4.2 is now ready for prime time › Read article     Windows Mobile Bluetooth vulnerability allows access to any files A Directory Traversing vulbnerability in the Bluetooth OBEX FTP server allows access to files outside the permitted list. However, a successful attack usually requires a device pairing › Read article     Numerous security holes in OpenX ad server The problems include cross-site scripting holes, cross-site request forgery as well as SQL injection holes, and a file inclusion hole. No update is currently available › Read article     Knoppix 6.0 released Knoppix 6.0 has been released with several updates and new features, including the new Audio Desktop Reference Implementation and Networking Environment (ADRIANE) › Read article     Jetty proposes to Eclipse A formal proposal has now been made to bring the Java based Jetty HTTP server project under the auspices of the Eclipse Project › Read article     OpenOffice 3.0.1 Released Version 3.0.1 of OpenOffice the free office suite for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, has been released. It includes a number of bug fixes, larger user dictionaries and a grammar checker › 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: Dj Walker-Morgan 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.