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12 March 2009

The H news 12/03/2009


The H news 12/03/2009
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Overview of the news from the past 24 hours
The H Security news
Norton causes alarm and despondency

First a mysterious file started firewall alarm bells ringing, then Symantec deleted customers' queries about it: a wonderful breeding-ground for conspiracy theories, but no offence was intended

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Adobe fixes critical vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader

Adobe has released updates to Acrobat and Reader to close the critical vulnerability, exploited since February. A researcher finds crafted PDF files do not have to be opened for a breach to occur

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Patch Tuesday: Windows 3, Excel 0

If you're still waiting for a patch for the Excel vulnerability that's already being exploited, forget it: all three updates issued on Patch Tuesday are for Windows

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The H Open Source news
Mandriva 2009.1 first release candidate available

The first release candidate of Mandriva 2009.1 has been released and includes the latest versions of the desktop environments KDE (4.2.1), GNOME (2.25.92), Xfce 4.6 and LXDE

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ERP goes Cloudy

Compiere releases a Cloud version of their ERP product to run on Amazon's EC2 platform

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Talend: open source integration software complements proprietary solutions

A survey completed by Talend shows that many companies are using more open source data integration to compliment their proprietary data integration solutions

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Black Duck Suite automates open source code management

Black Duck has announced Black Duck Suite which bundles its Code Center, Export, and Protex products into a single unified framework

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Open Archive released under AGPL

Grau Data has released Open Archive which can archive millions of files and manage petabytes of data

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Possible data loss in Ext4

A bug report posted in the bug tracker for the next version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) describes a massive data loss problem when using Ext4

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Grails 1.1 released

Grails, the web application framework, has been updated to version 1.1, featuring a standalone object relational mapper, new testing framework and many other improvements

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The H Security feature
The right way to handle encryption with Firefox 3

Mozilla has changed the way Firefox 3 handles certificates, but not always for the better. A few modifications will sort things out [--] and give you more security

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