heise online news 22/01/2009

heise online news 22/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Google to close blacklist support for anti-phishing feature in Firefox 2.0 Google will soon shut down the blacklist server that versions of Firefox 2.0 up to 2.0.0.18 rely on for phishing warnings › Read article     Seagate dithers over drive firmware fix Seagate has been having repeated problems with drive failure due to problem firmware on several families of their hard drives › Read article     EU copyright extension: dangerous? A post on the EFF blog claims proposed EU copyright extensions are 'dangerous' › Read article     Mozilla's Test Pilot to record user behaviour Developers at the Mozilla Foundation are working on a test platform aimed at improving the usability of their software by collecting data via an add-on that records how users interact with each Mozilla program › Read article     Sun chief prescribes open source for US government Sun co-founder McNealy says open source technologies and products could result in a more secure and cost effective US government › Read article     Alfresco announce Alfresco Labs 3.0 final The open source enterprise content management system has been finalised, delivering CMIS and Sharepoint interoperability and a drag and drop web site development environment › Read article     Security update for critical holes in Typo3 The open source content management system suffers from multiple vulnerabilities and the Typo3 developers recommend upgrading as soon as possible › Read article     Adobe opens its Real-Time Messaging Protocol Adobe announces that the previously proprietary Real-Time Messaging protocol for the transmission of high-performance Audio, video and data streams will be passed to the Open Screen Project › Read article     Ubuntu Mobile may, or may not, use Qt The soon to be LGPL Qt GUI toolkit may be used on future versions of Ubuntu Mobile, but the developers haven't decided yet › Read article     Over 100 million credit / debit cards compromised A huge data breach at Heartland Payment systems may have put over 100 million credit and debit cards at risk › Read article     French grant OpenStreetMap access to land registry data The open source world maps project OpenStreetMap has apparently been granted official access to land registry vectorised geo-data by the French government › 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: Jonathan Bennett 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.

heise online news 21/01/2009

heise online news 21/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 With version 5.3, Red Hat has released the third update of the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5. In addition to various bug fixes, RHEL 5.3 also offers a number of new features and improvements › Read article     "Frozen cache" method to thwart cold boot attacks ACME Security has described a "frozen cache" method in which vital encryption components are only held in the CPU cache, and can't be read out from there after a cold boot › Read article     Early glimpse of OpenOffice.org 3.1 OpenOffice.org Ninja blog has details on what features are coming in OpenOffice.org 3.1 › Read article     MD5 attack on Microsoft's Authenticode A security expert has succeeded in generating two different Windows programs with identical code signatures. However, the practical use of this hack is questionable › Read article     Moonlight 1.0 released Moonlight 1.0, a 'Silverlight for Linux' has been released, just in time for the inauguration of U.S. President-Elect Obama › Read article     Elcomsoft Wi-Fi auditor prompts security warnings Elcomsoft has released its GPU assisted WPA/WPA2-PSK Wi-Fi password cracking application, prompting security vendors to issue warnings about weak eight character passwords › Read article     Malware spread through fake 'Barak Obama resigns' websites Over 40 fake President-Elect Barack Obama resignation sites used to spread W32/Iksmas.A.worm Malware › Read article     Fedora announces Moksha and Fedora Community The Moksha Project is Fedora's new platform for creating live and collaborative web applications › Read article     Sophos releases details of a vulnerability in anti-virus products Sophos has released details of a vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus, which, they say, has been closed in current versions › 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: Jonathan Bennett 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.