heise online news 30/01/2009

heise online news 30/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Audacity 1.3.7 beta released Audacity 1.3.7 beta has ben released for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix bringing bug fixes and increased program stability › Read article     Linux also affected by hole in Ralink's Wi-fi driver Attackers can exploit the hole to crash a computer remotely or even inject and execute arbitrary code. Debian has released new packages for the rt2400, rt2500 and rt2570 chipsets › Read article     Popular browsers continue to be vulnerable to clickjacking attacks - Updated A demo shows that Google's Chrome browser is vulnerable to this type of attack. The demo also works with Firefox. Microsoft's anti-clickjacking feature in IE8 is essentially ineffective › Read article     75,000 Euros awarded to open source businesses The Open Source Business Foundation has awarded 75,000 Euros to open source businesses › Read article     Nokia releases "Curse of Silence" SMS cure Nokia has released SMS Cleaner for Nokia S60 3rd Edition (Initial or Feature Pack 1) based devices, which may have received a so called "Curse of Silence" SMS message › Read article     Vulnerability found in FFmpeg library A vulnerability has been found in FFmpeg that may be exploited by a (remote) attacker to execute arbitrary code › Read article     Microsoft's CodePlex website traffic: 119 per cent growth Microsoft has made the usage data public for it's open source project hosting website, CodePlex. 2008 traffic has grown by 119 per cent on the previous year › 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.