heise online news 04/12/2008

heise online news 04/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news FireFox 'plug-in' harvests web passwords BitDefender report discovery of a new type of malware, a trojan that collects web log-in passwords by masquerading as a FireFox plug-in. A significant number of UK banks are on the target list. › Read article     Concurrent's real-time Linux updated The US specialist in real-time systems has released version 5.2 of its Linux distribution. The system supports PTP and is claimed to improve the performance of applications on NUMA architectures › Read article     Eclipse plugin for Mercurial version control system Version 1.2 of the Eclipse plugin for the Mercurial version control system has been released. The new release includes a number of new features and fixes a variety of bugs › Read article     SpringSource announces enterprise version of Tomcat SpringSource introduces an enterprise version of the Apache Tomcat Servlet Container, offering both the usual Tomcat features and diagnostic, as well as monitoring capabilities › Read article     Is the Open Source business model broken? In an article in this week's BusinessWeek, former OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen expresses his concerns about the viability of the Open Source business model › Read article     Openmoko's Freerunner gets Android source repository and binaries Koolu has collected the Android sources and the patches for Openmoko's Freerunner in a dedicated source code repository. One of the key developers also offers binaries › Read article     Encrypting hard disk housing cracked One year after heise Security exposed shoddy encryption procedures and misleading advertisement for housings with crypto chips by vendor Innmax, the German manufacturer Digittrade has launched another product with weak security › Read article     Liferay's Social Office: a budget, cross-platform, MS Sharepoint alternative Liferay's Social Office can be used to share MS Office documents and is compatible with Sharepoint; it also includes web mail, wikis, blogs, IM and team calendars and more besides › Read article     Java 6 update 11 available Also available for download are versions JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 17, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_19 as well as SDK and JRE 1.3.1_24. Sun says it has fixed several security holes in the new versions › Read article     Adobe admits Acrobat 9 passwords can be guessed more quickly Because the specification for the 256-bit AES encryption in Acrobat 9 provides greater performance than the previous 128-bit implementation, it also allows password crackers to try different passwords much faster › Read article     Secunia publishes shocking vulnerability statistics Security specialists Secunia have released figures suggesting that 98 in every hundred PCs in personal use have at least one un-patched and vulnerable program › Read article     Viewing subversion repositories online with WebSVN 2.1 Version 2.1 of WebSVN has been released. The new version supports GeSHI, and updating is recommended to fix previous security issues › Read article     Multimedia in web presentations: W3C publishes SMIL 3.0 The World Wide Web Consortium has published version 3.0 of its Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language standard. › Read article     SonicWALL server switches off protective functions Unknown to them, SonicWall users may have been unprotected against remote attack for a while, as a problem with the licensing server switched off intrusion prevention and anti-virus protection › Read article     New tool synchs Mac OS X with Open-Xchange groupware The new "OXtender for Mac OS X" product synchronises emails, contacts and appointments between the open source Open-Xchange groupware and various native Mac programs › Read article     EclipseSource: An Engagement of Eclipse experts Innoopract and Code 9 have introduced a joint venture, initially planned to be a collaboration of recognised experts for various Eclipse projects like RCP, Equinox and RAP › Read article     Songbird spreads its wings Based on Mozilla's web browser engine, the Songbird media player is now available in version 1.0 › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. 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