The H news 17/03/2009

The H news 17/03/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H Security news MLDonkey 3.0 closes security hole MLDonkey's web management interface allows access to arbitrary files, a bug which is now fixed in version 3.0.0 › Read article     The H Open Source news Wine 1.1.17 released Wine development 1.1.17 has been released and includes several new features › Read article     Red Hat "defensive" patent has chilling effect Red Hat's application for what it calls a defensive patent comes in for criticism › Read article     Hudson gets a new trick - Apache Hadoop Hudson, the cluster capable continuous integration platform can now also act as a Hadoop cluster, thanks to a new plug-in › Read article     Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.29 - Part 7: Audio, FireWire, USB, Video and more New and extended drivers enable audio output via HDMI and provide support for a range of webcams. The older FireWire stack can now perform faster data transfer and there are numerous new staging drivers to bloat the kernel source code › Read article     Mozilla Survey: What makes a good developer platform? Mozilla is asking developers to complete a seven questions survey. Mozilla hopes the answers will help them to improve the development experience › Read article     GTK+ 2.16.0 arrives The GTK+ Project team have released version 2.16.0 of GTK+, which includes new functionality › Read article     Jaiku code released Google has released the Jaiku code under the Apache License 2.0 › Read article     The H Security feature Worth Reading: Optimised to fail - Card Readers for online banking The distribution of hand held, one-time-key 'card readers' led one research team to reverse engineer the underlying protocol and find a number of vulnerabilities › 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.