heise online news 18/12/2008

heise online news 18/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Microsoft closes zero day hole in Internet Explorer The patch is to close the hole in all versions of Internet Explorer and is available for all Windows versions. Users are advised to install the update immediately, as the number of infected web pages is growing steadily › Read article     JSR315 goes into controversial public review JSR315, the Servlet 3.0 specification for Java, has gone to public review, but has already been criticised by the main developer of Jetty › Read article     Security update for MediaWiki MediaWiki users are advised to upgrade their installations after four vulnerabilities were identified in the wiki software › Read article     VirtualBox 2.1 adds hardware virtualisation for Macs and more Sun have released a major update to VirtualBox, bringing hardware virtualisation to it's Mac OS X version and improving it's ability to use VMWare generated virtual machines › Read article     Camino updated to 1.6.6 Camino, the Mac OS X only open source browser, gets a security update › Read article     Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.28 - Part 7: architecture support, memory subsystem and virtualisation 2.6.28 includes numerous improvements to memory management, performance and scalability for large systems. Support for x2apic, XSAVE/XRSTOR and passing PCI devices through to KVM guests, has also been added › Read article     IronPython 2, Python for .Net, finalised IronPython 2 is out, bringing Python to Microsoft's .Net framework and dynamic language runtime › Read article     Debian developers vote on firmware Is firmware required to be free and open source under Debian rules? That's the question that the Debian community are voting on as they decide on the freeness of Debian 5.0 › Read article     Firefox 3.0.5 fixes three critical vulnerabilities Three critical vulnerabilities in Firefox have been fixed in the newly released Firefox 3.0.5 › 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.