News & Features
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Alerted by the levels of outgoing traffic, Yahoo Japan believes that 22 million user IDs were leaked from their systems but it is confident that no password or other verification data was involved in the exfiltration
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Back in February, a report by cybersecurity firm Mandiant exposed a Chinese military unit that targeted companies and media in the US. When the New York Times ran a feature on the APT1 group, things went quiet around the group. Now, APT1 has resumed operation
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The latest version of the live Debian Linux distribution for anonymity and privacy especially in repressive environments is now available with on the fly package updating and support for the latest obfuscation bridges
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The latest version of the open source SQL client for Windows brings a query history function, supports search and replace in results and introduces folders that allow users to organise the software's user interface better
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The new QEMU supports KVM virtualisation on the Cortex A15 series of ARM cores and can use VFIO to pass through graphics chips from the host to the guest
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Arduino has launched a new family of development boards and its first full robotics platform. The Arduino Yún is a Wi-Fi enabled board running Linux and the Arduino Robot is the company's first robotics platform that is fully functional out of the box
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Monday, 20 May 2013
With a new slicker x264 set of controls, the latest version of the open source video transcoder is easier to use. New betas show developments using Intel GPUs and OpenCL too
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The developers of the open source web frontend framework Bootstrap are designing the next version of their software to be adaptable to mobile form factors by default. Development work on Bootstrap 3 is almost complete
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In this edition: Meteor goes all WebSockets, IntelliJ IDEA goes all Android, Pythonic progress, development kits for Hadoop, and standards for lifecycle software
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The new Hangouts is designed to put an end to the proliferation of Google chat services and promises to provide interesting features - but its missing XMPP support potentially means that numerous Google Talk contacts could be irretrievably lost
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Twelve months and 400,000 lines of code changes have produced the latest version of Perl, 5.18. The headline feature is a reimplementation of hashing to make it truly random
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Among the enhancements in NetBSD 6.1 is support for the Raspberry Pi's USB and onboard Ethernet, along with security and bug fixes. The same fixes are also in the newly released 6.0.2
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"Saucy Salamander" could include early versions of Ubuntu's Mir display server and of the Qt-based Unity Next desktop, both of which have been demonstrated. However, the graphics stack of Ubuntu 12.10 will continue to be used by default
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A convenient online search facility is now available for the enormous amount of data that was accumulated during a port scan of the entire internet
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On the occasion of the ten-year Opteron anniversary, AMD was able to present not only a better balance sheet than last year, but also the new shared memory architecture for CPU and GPU called hUMA
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Saturday, 18 May 2013
In the week ending 18 May Microsoft is reading what you type in Skype's chat, an exploit for the Linux kernel is discovered, Google unveils its new IDE for developing Android applications, and the International Space Station is using more Linux
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Friday, 17 May 2013
On The H's radar over the last seven days: Samsung's Smart TV software, phone scammers with their own hotline, tricking malware with Vaccination, Qualcomm is pre-installing Kaspersky on Android phones and Twitter account security
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Our associate's discovery that URLs sent through Skype are then visited by Microsoft has caused quite a stir. A little more information has now emerged and leads to even more questions
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A newly found item of Mac malware appears to have been signed by its creator but is apparently unable to deliver its cache of screenshots to the two command and control servers it is meant to connect to
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Mozilla's new Firefox 22 beta brings two potentially major web technologies - WebRTC and OdinMonkey - to the desktop, aiming for integrated web real-time communications and even better JavaScript performance
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In this edition: Amarok fixes a crashing bug on Linux, the last GNOME 3.8 release, the first development milestone for openSUSE 13.1, the first alpha of Canaima GNU/Linux 4.0, a Calligra bug fix release, and a new version of Fail2Ban
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Opera's lawsuit against a former employee for leaking trade secrets, reportedly designs of search buttons and tabs, to Mozilla is no more as the company has settled the case, but terms of the settlement are secret
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The ownCloud developers have released versions 5.0.6, 4.0.15, and 4.5.11 to fix a number of serious vulnerabilities in their software including SQL injection, code execution and privilege escalation problems
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Google is now previewing App Engine support for PHP which will allow PHP developers to make use of Google's PaaS platform and various cloud services
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The Linux Mint developers have announced a release candidate for Linux Mint 15. The "most ambitious release since the start of the project" includes a custom control centre application, a new screensaver tool and a number of other features
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Skype's ominous link checking: facts and speculation
ownCloud fixes critical security vulnerabilities
