heise online news 23/01/2009

heise online news 23/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Copies of iWork 09 from BitTorrent may contain trojan According to Intego, pirated copies of Apple's iWork 09 may contain a trojan › Read article     RESTEasy brings REST architecture to JBoss Bill Burke of JBoss has announced version 1.0 of RESTEasy, a fully certified and portable implementation of JAX-RS specification › Read article     Microsoft's instructions for disabling AutoRun don't work US-CERT has reported problems with disabling the Windows AutoRun/AutoPlay functions. It seems that the method Microsoft has previously published doesn't disable these functions completely, and the Conficker worm now going around is exploiting them › Read article     Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included The Fedora Project will use Ext4 as the standard file system in Fedora 11, expected in late May, as long as Ext3's successor proves reliable. Fedora Rawhide and its installer are also offering support for the experimental Btrfs › Read article     VirtualBox 2.1.2 released The open source desktop virtualisation application gets a maintenance update, more guest operating system support and a handy safety feature for Apple laptop users › Read article     Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit The third annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit will take place from the 8th to the 10th of April in San Francisco, California › Read article     Wikimedia drafts licensing change The Wikimedia Foundation has published a draft of plans to change the licensing of content on Wikipedia › Read article     QuickTime 7.6 update brings security fixes Apple has released QuickTime 7.6 for Mac OS X and Windows, which includes several enhancements and fixes seven critical security vulnerabilities. › Read article     Microsoft contribute code to Stonehenge Microsoft has made its first contribution to Stonehenge, an Apache SOA project currently in incubation › 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.