heise online news 14/01/2009

heise online news 14/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Microsoft closes three holes in Windows All three holes are based on buffer overflows. Two of them can apparently be exploited to inject and execute code remotely. However, Microsoft does not expect any exploits to appear › Read article     Canonical's Launchpad to be open source in July Mark Shuttleworth's promise to open source Launchpad is made good, as a date is set for Launchpad to be freed › Read article     Samba conference call for papers The organisers of the eighth international conference on Samba, the Samba eXPerience 2009, send out a call for papers › Read article     DECT Forum: Cordless phone vulnerabilities present a low privacy risk Since the interception of telephone conversations constitutes a crime and it isn't possible to listen to random calls, the DECT Forum has declared the recently found vulnerabilities a low risk to privacy › Read article     Sonar 1.5.1 checks code quality The Codehaus Sonar project, designed to managed code quality tools for continuous integration environments, has been updated › Read article     SCO vs. Linux: "Unix" goes under the hammer SCO wants to sell its software production to the highest bidder to finance its various legals disputes concerning the intellectual property rights to Unix as well as over some Unix code allegedly integrated into Linux, without permission › Read article     The 25 most dangerous programming errors Thirty companies and organisations have worked together to list the top 25 programming errors that lead to security vulnerabilities › Read article     Conficker in Carinthia: first the state government, now the hospitals Following infections on Carinthian state government computers, the Conficker worm has attacked some 3,000 PCs in at least three hospitals run by KABEG, an operating company that runs the state's healthcare institutions › Read article     RIM closes critical holes in Blackberry Groomed PDF files can be used to attack BlackBerry servers when a smartphone's user tries to view them › Read article     Google release free Quick Search Box for Mac Google release Quick Search Box for Mac, an experimental BSD licensed application which brings search onto the desktop › Read article     Vulnerability in Apple's Safari A flaw in Apple's Safari web browser's handling of RSS can allow information disclosure to unauthorised web sites. Mac OS X and Windows users of the browser are vulnerable › Read article     Tor anonymous network now has zero known bugs The Tor project has fixed 171 issues revealed by the Coverity Scan static code analysis system › Read article     MySQL employee Australian Visa refused for unfair competition? - Updated Because Australian visas for a number of Sun Microsystems employees have been denied, MySQL Community VP, Kaj Arnö, has decided not to attend linux.conf.au › 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.