The H news 20/03/2009

The H news 20/03/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H Security news Cold call scam warns of virus infection If someone phones you up and tells you your PC is infected, hang up, it's the latest scam to extract credit card details › Read article     Pwn2Own 2009: Safari, IE 8 and Firefox exploited Safari was the first to fall on the first day of the Pwn2Own 2009 security competition held at the CanSecWest conference. Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox soon followed thanks to a 25 year old German university student › Read article     Windows Trojan on Diebold ATMs A Trojan that spies on PINs may seem almost common place now - but what if it actually ran on a cash machine? › Read article     Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 fixes vulnerabilities - Updated Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.21, fixing two critical security vulnerabilities in the open source email client › Read article     The H Open Source news New version of the XO software released Sugar Labs, the makers of the software for the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, has released a new version of its open source Sugar Learning Platform, which includes additional hardware support and new applications › Read article     Kernel Log: Tasmanian devil to be Linux's temporary mascot, new Radeon drivers Tuz, a Tasmanian devil, temporarily stands in for Tux; new Radeon graphics driver uses hardware acceleration and offers rudimentary DisplayPort support › Read article     Ext4 data loss; explanations and workarounds Last week's news about data loss with the Linux Ext4 file system is explained and new solutions have been provided by Ted Ts'o to allow Ext4 to behave more like Ext3 › Read article     JBoss Tools 3.0 released The JBoss team has released version 3.0 of the open source toolkit, JBoss Tools, which includes over 250 changes and updates › Read article     GNOME 2.26.0 released The final version of GNOME 2.26.0 has been released and includes a number of new features including the return of the session saving feature and several application updates › Read article     Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 fixes vulnerabilities - Updated Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.21, fixing two critical security vulnerabilities in the open source email client › 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.