heise online news 12/02/2009

heise online news 12/02/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news ApacheCon Europe 2009 - 10th anniversary ApacheCon Europe, celebrates 10th anniversary of The Apache Software Foundation and announces three brand new features for 23–27 March 2009 › Read article     Typo3 hack on German Interior Minister's web site An, as yet unidentified perrson, entered the German Interior Minister's personal web site and slipped in a link to a group protesting against data retention › Read article     advertisement QCon London, UK (March 11-13) is an enterprise software dev conference featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Rod Johnson and others. BBC, guardian.co.uk and Linked-In architectures will be presented. Tracks include Emerging Languages, Real World SOA, Agile Organizational Patterns, DDD,.NET, Java.Next... Register before February 22nd and save £130! GroundWork Monitor 5.3 released GroundWork Monitor has been updated to version 5.3 with improvements to key areas › Read article     OSF and Credant partnership The Open Security Foundation and Credant Technologies have entered into a partnership agreement over dissemination of information on data breaches › Read article     Flex SDK Community Committee created A Community Committee of Adobe Flex developers has been formed to coordinate feedback from open source developers and to get Adobe to act upon it › Read article     SharpDevelop 3.0 now supports .Net 3.5, IronPython and F# SharpDevelop version 3.0 has been released with added support, new features and bug fixes › Read article     Internet Explorer executes code in pictures Internet Explorer's MIME sniffing capability has opened up a hole which allows execution of JavaScript embedded in image files › Read article     RIM closes critical hole in BlackBerry RIM has released an update for the BlackBerry Application Web Loader for Windows that closes a critical vulnerability in the ActiveX control › Read article     Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday: four updates Two critical security and two important updates fix flaws in Internet Explorer, Exchange, SQL Server and MS Office Visio › Read article     Debian 4.0 Etch updates Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch" has been updated to 4.0.r7 and includes security updates and other improvements › 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.