heise online news 16/12/2008

heise online news 16/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.28 - Part 6: Changes to the audio drivers Linux 2.6.28 supports Jack Sensing, recent Asus Xonar models and the Tascam US-122L USB Audio/MIDI Interface. Better support also for AC97 and HD audio codecs as well as current PCs, notebooks and mainboards › Read article     Google's Chromium gets first non-Google committer The Google open source browser becomes truly open source as the first person outside Google is given "commit" privileges › Read article     IWF blocking policy questioned by Open Rights Group An article posted today, 15th December, on the Open Rights Group site asks if there are lessons to be learnt from the recent Wikipedia block listing › Read article     Buffer overflow in MPlayer media player A flaw in the function for processing TwinVQ files can potentially be used to inject code into a system and to execute it › Read article     German credit card security breached A box addressed to the editors at the Frankfurter Rundschau contained microfilm with credit card details of tens of thousands of credit card users › Read article     Patent problem for a future Linux feature? A report suggests that a possible future feature for Linux, KSM, which is designed to reduce memory consumption, may clash with a VMware held patent › Read article     Zero day exploit for Internet Explorer is spreading According the security firms, more and more servers are being compromised so that seemingly trustworthy sites launch the particularly dangerous attacks on Internet Explorer › Read article     Symantec security update A flawed driver in Symantec's anti-virus products can be exploited to crash a PC › Read article     USB 3.0 for Linux in development Intel's Open Source Technology Centre is working on Linux drivers for USB 3.0, and a posting by one of the developers sheds light on the development process and timetable › Read article     VMWare quietly acquire Tungsten Graphics VMWare has acquired the company behind Mesa and other Linux graphics technology › 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.