The H news 12/03/2009

The H news 12/03/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H Security news Norton causes alarm and despondency First a mysterious file started firewall alarm bells ringing, then Symantec deleted customers' queries about it: a wonderful breeding-ground for conspiracy theories, but no offence was intended › Read article     Adobe fixes critical vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader Adobe has released updates to Acrobat and Reader to close the critical vulnerability, exploited since February. A researcher finds crafted PDF files do not have to be opened for a breach to occur › Read article     Patch Tuesday: Windows 3, Excel 0 If you're still waiting for a patch for the Excel vulnerability that's already being exploited, forget it: all three updates issued on Patch Tuesday are for Windows › Read article     The H Open Source news Mandriva 2009.1 first release candidate available The first release candidate of Mandriva 2009.1 has been released and includes the latest versions of the desktop environments KDE (4.2.1), GNOME (2.25.92), Xfce 4.6 and LXDE › Read article     ERP goes Cloudy Compiere releases a Cloud version of their ERP product to run on Amazon's EC2 platform › Read article     Talend: open source integration software complements proprietary solutions A survey completed by Talend shows that many companies are using more open source data integration to compliment their proprietary data integration solutions › Read article     Black Duck Suite automates open source code management Black Duck has announced Black Duck Suite which bundles its Code Center, Export, and Protex products into a single unified framework › Read article     Open Archive released under AGPL Grau Data has released Open Archive which can archive millions of files and manage petabytes of data › Read article     Possible data loss in Ext4 A bug report posted in the bug tracker for the next version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) describes a massive data loss problem when using Ext4 › Read article     Grails 1.1 released Grails, the web application framework, has been updated to version 1.1, featuring a standalone object relational mapper, new testing framework and many other improvements › Read article     The H Security feature The right way to handle encryption with Firefox 3 Mozilla has changed the way Firefox 3 handles certificates, but not always for the better. A few modifications will sort things out [--] and give you more security › 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.