The H news 20/02/2009

The H news 20/02/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H news Patent dispute: Red Hat launches an offensive Instead of quietly settling the patent dispute with IP Innovation, Red Hat has called on the open source community to help find "prior art" to invalidates the patent in question › Read article     "Future of Open Source" survey A survey is being run, with industry-wide support, to examine users, developers and vendors opinions on the future of open source › Read article     The H Security news OpenBSD patches DoS vulnerability in the BGP daemon The internet snarl-up at the start of this week, caused by an incorrectly configured router, uncovered a vulnerability in OpenBSD, now fixed by patches for OpenBSD 4.3 and 4.4 › Read article     Black Hat: new ways to attack SSL A security researcher has told the ongoing Black Hat security conference of a new way to attack browser connections with secure sockets layer (SSL) protection, enabling him to steal login data from users of Yahoo, Google and Paypal › Read article     The H Open Source news Ruby 1.8.6 going to the Engineyard? Management and maintenance of Ruby 1.8.6 may move to Engineyard, as it volunteers to look after the older, but very common version of Ruby › Read article     Ariba releases AribaWeb RIA development framework Ariba has today released its AribaWeb RIA development framework under Version 2.0 of the Apache license › Read article     Zend has a new Application Server Zend, the PHP company, has added a new product to it's product line, Zend Server › Read article     OpenBSD patches DoS vulnerability in the BGP daemon The internet snarl-up at the start of this week, caused by an incorrectly configured router, uncovered a vulnerability in OpenBSD, now fixed by patches for OpenBSD 4.3 and 4.4 › Read article     Patent dispute: Red Hat launches an offensive Instead of quietly settling the patent dispute with IP Innovation, Red Hat has called on the open source community to help find "prior art" to invalidates the patent in question › Read article     "Future of Open Source" survey A survey is being run, with industry-wide support, to examine users, developers and vendors opinions on the future of open source › Read article     Palms provides WebOS developer information Palm has started to release developer information on it's new Linux-based Palm OS - WebOS › 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 The H news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter The H Open Source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from The H, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter The H 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.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/security 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) 2009 Heise Media UK Ltd.