heise online news 09/01/2009

heise online news 09/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Easy Peasy 1.0 for netbooks released Easy Peasy, an Ubuntu based Linux distribution aimed at netbooks, has been released. Version 1.0 is based on Ubuntu 8.10 and incorporates many of its features › Read article     Hole in gen_msn plug-in for Winamp The Now Playing plug-in, gen_msn for the Winamp media player, has a hole that allows an attackers code to be executed from a playlist file › Read article     22 vendors of anti-virus software taken to court in patent dispute The US company "Information Protection and Authentication of Texas" has taken security software vendors like Symantec, Microsoft, McAfee, Kaspersky Lab and F-Secure to court over alleged patent infringements › Read article     AbiWord gets funding for ODF development AbiSource gets NLnet funding to improve the OpenDocument format compatibility of AbiWord › Read article     OLPC project faces cutbacks Nicolas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project announces downsizing due to the effects of the world-wide economic downturn › Read article     OpenSSL accepts forged certificates Updating to version 0.9.8j solves the problem. The vendor of the BIND name server has also released an update to prevent spoofing in zones protected via DNSSEC › Read article     Firebug 1.3 released Firebug, the essential Firefox extension for debugging web based applications, has been released as final for Firefox 3.0, improving developers abilities examine what their browser is doing › Read article     Intel's Trusted Execution Technology hacked in the alpha stage At the 2009 Black Hat conference Security specialist Joanna Rutkowska will show how to get around Intel's TXT › 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.