The H news 07/03/2009

The H news 07/03/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H Security news Firefox: most vulnerabilities, but quickly patched Secunia has published its security report for 2008, saying that 115 vulnerabilities were eliminated from Firefox in 2008: more than those found in Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera put together › Read article     Twitter spoofing fix fails in UK and Germany Twitter's claim to have fixed the spoofing vulnerability is found to be untrue in the UK and Germany › Read article     Twitter closes SMS spoofing hole - Updated Twitter has closed a security hole which left accounts open to being hijacked via SMS spoofing › Read article     Vulnerabilities in TYPO3 extensions The TYPO3 developers have reported on three extensions with security vulnerabilities, one of which has now been removed from the TYPO3 extension repository › Read article     Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to close three security vulnerabilities Microsoft has announced that it will release three security updates, one of them critical, on Tuesday the 10th of March › Read article     The H Open Source news Roadmap for OpenSUSE The OpenSUSE project manager has proposed a roadmap for the future versions of OpenSUSE › Read article     Firefox: most vulnerabilities, but quickly patched Secunia has published its security report for 2008, saying that 115 vulnerabilities were eliminated from Firefox in 2008: more than those found in Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera put together › Read article     Free implementation of the VMware cluster file system New open source software enables read access to VMFS volumes created by VMware ESX › Read article     Vulnerabilities in TYPO3 extensions The TYPO3 developers have reported on three extensions with security vulnerabilities, one of which has now been removed from the TYPO3 extension repository › Read article     Kernel Log: Morton questions acceptance of Xen Dom0 code; file systems for SSDs New Xen Dom0 patches are issued, but Andrew Morton asks critically whether accepting extended Xen support into the kernel still makes sense. Theodore Tso spells out in his blog all manner of detail about Ext file systems and SSDs › 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.