The H news 26/02/2009

The H news 26/02/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H Security news Malicious advertising banners distributed by eWeek Scarcely a web portal is immune against malicious code contained in Flash advertising. This time, web pages owned by the Ziff Davis network were affected › Read article     Adobe patches critical hole in Flash Player, but PDF hole remains open Adobe has updated its Flash Player to fix a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control over a users system. The Adobe Reader critical security hole has yet to be patched › Read article     Microsoft fixes AutoRun disable option Microsoft has announced an update to fix the option that allows administrators to disable AutoRun as a precaution against Conficker worm infection › Read article     The H Open Source news Novell and VMware cooperate The two software vendors expand their cooperation in the virtualisation sector › Read article     Fedora project plans to use 64-bit and PAE kernels Starting with Fedora 11, the developers already plan to incorporate an x86-64 kernel as standard, even in the distribution's 32-bit version › Read article     Fedora to use Nouveau driver for Nvidia graphics The Fedora Project has selected Nouveau to replace the xf86-video-nv driver as the default driver for Nvidia graphics hardware in Fedora 11 › Read article     Open Source Vendors welcome new Government policy, but want more action With a new U.K. government policy on open source announced, The H sounded out open source vendors for their reactions › Read article     Google asks to join EU case against Microsoft Google has asked to join Mozilla in the European Commission case against Microsoft regarding its bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system › Read article     New Apache Top Level Project: Buildr The Ruby based build system for Java developers is promoted to a top level Apache project, offering a powerful alternative to Maven and Ant › Read article     The H Open Source feature Mozilla interview: Opening up mobile browsing Location, privacy and web standards: as the first alpha and beta releases of Fennec come out, Mozilla VP Jay Sullivan tells us the phone isn't a separate world any more › 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 The H news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter The H Open Source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from The H, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter The H 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.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/security Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Dj Walker-Morgan All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2009 Heise Media UK Ltd.