News & Features
Monday, 17 Jun 2013
If attackers can get the user to install a malicious app and convince the user to reset their password using BlackBerry Protect, it is possible to take complete control of a BlackBerry Z10
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The first beta of version 4.11 of the KDE Software Collection, also referred to by its actual version number of 4.10.80, has been released and brings experimental Wayland support to KWin and more Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces
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Patient monitors, medical pumps, and analysis devices like industry control systems, the equipment used in hospitals is increasingly connected to networks. Now, ICS-CERT says that some 300 devices from 40 manufacturers have backdoors
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In this edition of the Open Recall, MIMO at the TDF, openSUSE 13.1's second milestone, the latest Parted Magic, Minecraft cloned in assembler, LibreOffice's code cleaning, playing Pong with WebRTC and GStreaming on iOS devices
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The US District of Utah has re-opened the SCO v IBM court case, six years after SCO filed for Chapter 11. The case has been resurrected because SCO's motion to re-open the case was wrongly denied
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Media reports have suggested that Microsoft has been supplying the US government with Windows security vulnerabilities for uses related to the PRISM programme. Microsoft has now released a statement denying all such allegations
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The Debian project has begun its normal process of releasing updated media for the stable version of Debian. Debian 7.1 rolls up the fixes of 33 security advisories and many important corrections to packages
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Initially as a preview only, Microsoft is offering Azure customers the facility, after entering their username and password, to authenticate via a smartphone app or over the phone. This option does not, however, come cheap
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Open source media player Songbird will no longer undergo further development. The decision has been made for financial reasons
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Saturday, 15 Jun 2013
In the week ending 15 June Business Source, GNOME Classic Mode in RHEL 7, users warned to remove the Debian Multimedia repository, Hetzner hacked, GlassFish 4.0, the BrickPi, and a sophisticated Android trojan
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Friday, 14 Jun 2013
The UK Government was praised by many for its Design Manual guidance, which recommended open source for many uses, but now that recommendation has been excised from the document and replaced with talk of a "Level Playing Field"
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The developers have announced that the version of the distribution that was released in November 2011 will no longer be maintained and that users should upgrade to the current openSUSE 12.3
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Google's competitors claim that the company is exploiting its dominant position in the mobile operating system market
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Google plans to retire its extension for older versions of Internet Explorer next January and recommends users switch to a modern version of IE or make the jump to Chrome in earnest
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The latest version of the open source digital audio workstation (DAW) adds the ability to work with audio that is associated with video files. It supports import, export and display of video with frame-by-frame granularity
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The ability to search and index using regular expressions and work with arrays and sets has been added to the open source scalable JSON database. There is also a new function for analytics and shared-key authentication
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The Debian project is warning users that the unofficial Debian Multimedia repository has to be considered unsafe as its domain has switched hands and is now under the control of an unknown party
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At the prompting of the European Commission, the members of the European Parliament have approved new rules for re-using public sector information based on principles for open data
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Thursday, 13 Jun 2013
A plan to migrate the administration of the state and city of Berlin to Linux and open source software has failed. The proposal by the Green Party was blocked in the state parliament by the governing coalition
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Drops in new version adoption and user satisfaction with the Eclipse IDE may be the result of performance problems that hit the most recently released version; the information comes as part of the results of the annual Eclipse Community Survey
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The developer of the KDE microblogging client has announced that he will hand over development to a community of volunteers. Choqok is currently unable to talk to Twitter as it is using the deprecated API
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The new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.2 offers improved dynamic network configuration and Storage Live Migration features as well as a plugin framework. The Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure aims to make it easier to get started with OpenStack
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Over the past few months, the US government has generated increasing amounts of publicity around alleged hacker attacks from China. The Mandiant report on the ATP1 group appeared to provide plenty of evidence. However, the US aren't the only victims
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Google is warning Iranian internet users to be on the look out for phishing emails which attempt to compromise their Google accounts. It believes the emails are from the same group behind the DigiNotar compromise in 2011
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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has published its latest top ten of web application security risks. Both cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks lost in importance in favour of other threats
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Critical vulnerability in Blackberry 10 OS
