heise online news 05/02/2009

heise online news 05/02/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1 released Red Hat claims the Grid capabilities in this release, still experimental in release 1.0, are now fit for use in production environments › Read article     Vulnerabilities in UltraVNC and TightVNC Bugs in the clients could lead to a system compromise. An update for UltraVNC is available, but TightVNC users will have to wait a little while › Read article     advertisement QCon London, UK (March 11-13) is an enterprise software dev conference featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Rod Johnson and others. BBC, guardian.co.uk and Linked-In architectures will be presented. Tracks include Emerging Languages, Real World SOA, Agile Organizational Patterns, DDD,.NET, Java.Next... Register before February 22nd and save £130! Compiz project composites itself The project behind the compositing window manager has created a council and a roadmap for future development › Read article     New open source chiefs at IBM and at Zend At IBM, Bob Sutor has been promoted to the Vice President of Open Source and Linux and at Zend, co-founder Andi Gutmans, has been named as the companies new CEO › Read article     Linux Defenders expand initiative against patent trolls The Linux Community is being asked to take part in three projects to help identify unjust patents › Read article     Nomad & Compiz++ re-merge with Compiz The Compiz++ and Nomad branches of Compiz will be merged back into Compiz main › Read article     Security Updates for Bugzilla Updates for the Bugzilla bug tracking system include fixes for Cross-Site Request Forgery and Cross-Site scripting vulnerabilites, while a later update fixes a bug which defeated the new fixes › Read article     IBM study says many security vulnerabilities remain unpatched According to IBM, no patches were issued for 53 per cent of the vulnerabilities discovered in 2008. Most of those affected Apple's Mac OS X › Read article     Firefox 3.0.6 fixes vulnerabilities Firefox 3.0.6 has been released, fixing several vulnerabilities in the open source browser › Read article     VMWare release open virtualisation client VMWare's View Open Client has been released under the LGPL, so device makers have a low cost way of supporting VMWare's proprietary virtualisation servers › Read article     Budget encrypted USB hard drives easily cracked Recent tests show that the security of budget external USB hard drives with built in encryption is extremely weak › 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: 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) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.