heise online news 06/01/2009

heise online news 06/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Major security problem for Twitter High profile Twitter accounts have been compromised and reports suggest the hole may still be open despite Twitter's assurances that it is fixed › Read article     Kernel Log: 2.6.29 development kicks off, improved 3D support 2.6.29 will see kernel-based mode setting for Intel graphics hardware; experimental graphics driver code utilises 3D features of the latest Radeon GPUs; problems with the leap second; new versions of Gutenprint and Hplip › Read article     X Server 1.6 misses its release date X Server 1.6 was due to come out on January 5th, but a lack of activity in the source code is leading to reports that the release date has been missed › Read article     Anti-malware and Police surveillance Security product vendors deny they allow back-doors for police surveillance software. However their compliance could be forced by future regulations › Read article     Re:Versions - PHPExcel 1.6.5 and FindBugs 1.3.7 The PHPExcel library gets an update to its OpenXML reading and writing abilities while the FindBugs static analysis tool adds some new bug spotting rules › Read article     Grsecurity needs a sponsor to survive Version 2.1.12 of grsecurity, a Linux security extension, has been released, along with a warning that there will be no further development unless a new sponsor can be found › Read article     Government backs more remote searching of private PCs The government is backing proposals that could lead to more remote searching of private PCs › Read article     Phishing in the Twitter pond Social messaging and networking sites have been struck by a wave of spam and phishing attacks over the course of the weekend › Read article     Will the Gnome Project change version control system? The Gnome Project have surveyed their contributing community looking for information on what distributed version control system they would like to move to › Read article     Apache Commons Digester gets a major update The Java library for digesting XML documents and mapping them to Java Beans sees a version 2.0, with improved schema support and less dependencies › Read article     FreeBSD 7.1 released The new stable release of FreeBSD includes in-kernel DTrace support and better multicore scheduling by default › 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.