heise online news 06/12/2008

heise online news 06/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Most recent Windows infections result from the same simple trick According to BitDefender, just one type of attack takes the top three places in the chart of Windows infections for November › Read article     Community version of JBoss 5.0 released After three years in development, JBoss 5.0 is released. It provides Java application serving to the open source world › Read article     Python 2.6.1 released Python 2.6.1 arrives, days after Python 3.0, fixing up bugs found in the final release of 2.6 › Read article     Distributed SSH attacks bypass blacklists A new distributed attack method uses a botnet to avoid detection by several tools that track and blacklist hostile IPs. It uses multiple different machines, which all simultaneously try to connect with the same ID and many different passwords › Read article     Security update for Trillian instant messenger An update to Trillian addresses three security vulnerabilities found by the Zero Day Initiative › Read article     JavaFX on Linux already? Want JavaFX on Linux now? One developer shows Linux users how to › Read article     New version 5.2.7 of PHP has improved stability and security PHP 5.2.7 is focused on stability and security. Upgrading to the new version is recommended › Read article     Linux smartphones: Nokia remains the odd one out Nokia plans to use its Maemo platform for its high-end smartphones › Read article     Microsoft wants to close six critical holes Microsoft plans to release eight security updates next Patch Tuesday, 9th December. Six of them are designed to close critical holes in Windows, Office (Excel and Office), Internet Explorer and in the Developer Tools (VBA) › Read article     Adventure PHP Framework 1.8 now runs under LGPL 3 Version 1.8 of the Adventure PHP Framework now runs under LGPL 3, so enterprise clients can now use the framework for closed-source applications, or under their own licence › Read article     Groovy Eclipse plugin gets refactoring support Eclipse plug-in for Groovy gets refactoring support in a new 1.5.7 release › Read article     Android smartphone from Australia The Australian online vendor Kogan Technologies plans to launch a budget smartphone with Google's Android open source operating system at the beginning of 2009 › Read article     JavaFX 1.0: Sun wants to revolutionise the web with Java - again With JavaFX version 1.0, Sun wants to offer developers functionality similar to that of Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash, along with the NetBeans development environment for JavaFX › Read article     Combined KDE and Gnome developers meeting The two free desktop projects have announced the dates for their first combined developers meeting › Read article     Yii 1.0 stable release PHP framework released Yii PHP framework 1.0 is released - the first stable release of Yii › Read article     SpringOne Americas 2008: Spring Integration 1.0 released Version 1.0 of Spring Integration has been released. Spring Integration is an extension to the Spring framework designed to support Enterprise Integration Patterns › 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: Jonathan Bennett 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.