News & Features
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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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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Thursday, 16 May 2013
Four hackers from the infamous group LulzSec were sentenced in the UK today. Three of them are facing prison, while the fourth got a suspended sentence
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What is someone scanning the internet for easily accessible industrial plants actually up to? The SCADA honeypot Conpot can help supply answers to that question
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Talend's latest release of its various data integration and big data applications has an eye towards making creating and deploying into a Hadoop cluster simpler
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The zPanel server is unavailable at the moment, most likely as a result of a hacker attack brought on by a member of the support team who swore at a forum user
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The Apache Software Foundation has announced that, just a little more than a year after their first release of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite has been downloaded 50 million times
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At the meeting of the RIPE IP address registry, discussions revolved around how to get black sheep to implement overdue security measures
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Qt 5.1 comes a step closer with the release of the first beta of the next version which includes technology previews of Qt for iOS and Android, new controls and layout modules
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At its annual SambaXP Samba developer and user conference, IT service provider SerNet has presented its first fully featured Samba 4 installation packages
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At Google I/O, the company unveiled an early preview of Android Studio, a fully featured, GUI-design-capable IDE that is heavily integrated with Google's Android SDK tools
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To avoid the need to develop new fuzz testing tools, researchers at Fraunhofer FOKUS institute have created the Fuzzino open source fuzzing library that can be used to add fuzzing features to existing test tools
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013
A bug that was fixed in the development branch of the kernel back in April was not identified as being security relevant and can therefore still be exploited on many systems
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The magazine's anonymous drop site is based on DeadDrop, developed by the late Aaron Swartz. Anonymity is in part ensured by only accepting connections via the Tor project's network
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The latest version of the open source business process management (BPM) application ProcessMaker now uses the popular TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. The update also brings an improved PDF generator
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After being in development since late last year, the Raspberry Pi camera module is available to purchase and the software to support it is now built into Raspbian
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The rapid rise in the number of mobile devices has led to a concomitant rise in the amount of location data available. Proprietary services are emerging to take advantage of that data, but open source has a strong foothold in the form of OpenStreetMap
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The Android version of Firefox 21 introduces two new fonts and some minor user interface improvements. The browser also received a number of HTML5 compatibility improvements
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ownCloud fixes critical security vulnerabilities
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