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The H Week - Freedom, Clouds, Malware, Clever Exploits and Ubuntu betas

The H Week Logo The H looked at freedom and the Cloud, how to track down malware, Munich's LiMux project, Microsoft and the W3C, Ubuntu 10.04's beta, Mac OS X and Virtual PC security and much more »

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Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. the Cloud Log

cloud icon Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is also in danger of losing, because those same services now represent a huge threat to our freedom as a result of the vast stores of information they hold about us, and the in-depth surveillance that implies more »

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20 March 2010
SCO vs. Linux: The jury has been informed

The second week in the trial between the SCO Group and Novell about the copyright to Unix has uncovered further surprising details of this never-ending story more »

20 March 2010
Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1

Ubuntu Logo Following three alpha releases, the Ubuntu developers have announced the availability of the first beta for what will become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, code named "Lucid Lynx" more »

20 March 2010
Exploit's new technology trick dodges memory protection

A hacker who goes by the name "JDuck" has discovered the first malicious PDF files which use Return Oriented Programming to bypass Data Execution Prevention (DEP) more »

19 March 2010
Version 6 of the PHProjekt project management software released

PHProjekt Logo Version 6 of PHProjekt is a complete rebuild and has been released under a new licence more »

19 March 2010
Google Summer of Code 2010: Mentoring organisations announced

Google Logo Google has published a list of the accepted mentoring organisations for this year's Google Summer of Code event. Mentors include the Debian Project, Facebook, Mozilla and Ubuntu more »

19 March 2010
LiMux project management, "We were naïve"

LiMux Project Logo Florian Schießl, deputy head of the Munich-based LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has been explaining why migrating the computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned. One reason cited is the proprietary world's "digital waste" more »

19 March 2010
Alert!CA updates ARCserve Backup

CA Logo An outdated Java runtime environment leaves security holes in the backup software more »

19 March 2010
SystemRescueCd 1.5.0 released

SystemRescueCd Logo The SystemRescueCd developers have released version 1.5.0 of their Linux distribution that's configured as a tool kit for administering or repairing an operating system and recovering data after a system crash. Version 1.5 updates the Linux kernel and a number of the included applications and components more »

19 March 2010
Exploit code with DNS tunnel

Network icon A hacker has written exploit code which can tunnel a shell connection through firewalls via DNS more »

18 March 2010
Open Video Alliance want Ogg Theora video on Wikipedia

OVA In an move designed to kickstart the widespread adoption of Ogg Theora video, the Open Video Alliance, comprised of Mozilla, Kaltura, the Participatory Culture Foundation and the Yale Law School's Information Society Project, has launched the "Let's get video on Wikipedia" campaign more »

18 March 2010
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.7 Alpha 3 developer preview

Firefox Logo Mozilla has released third Firefox 4.0 preview, labelled "3.7 Alpha 3", a developer preview of its latest Gecko web rendering platform build more »

18 March 2010
W3C to Microsoft - follow the process

W3C Logo Small While welcoming Microsoft's OData announcement, the W3C want Microsoft to put their open data project in the W3C Incubator. more »

18 March 2010
Alert!Security updates for Drupal modules

Drupal Logo Drupal's Email Input Filter, Keys and Tag Order modules contain security vulnerabilities, and should be updated to resolve this issue. The first at least is critical, as it can be exploited to penetrate a server more »

18 March 2010
Mac OS X: "safer, but less secure" - Update

Apple Logo 20 security holes in Apple software are about to be disclosed: Charlie Miller intends to present details of the vulnerabilities at the CanSecWest conference next week. The expert talked with heise Security about the security of Mac OS X beforehand more »

18 March 2010
Report: Android powered Google TV coming

Android Logo A report says that Google is working with Intel, Sony and Logitech to develop an Android based set-top box more »

18 March 2010
Version 2.2.0 of the Parrot virtual machine arrives

Parrot Logo The Parrot Foundation developers have released version 2.2.0 of the Parrot virtual machine, code named "Like Clockwork", on which the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6 will run more »

18 March 2010
Dispute about Virtual PC security holes

MSFT Does a software flaw which allows security safeguards to be bypassed count as a security hole in itself? Microsoft takes care to point out that it doesn't consider a recently published problem in Virtual PC a "vulnerability per se" more »

18 March 2010
Mozilla to web enable address books with Contacts

Mozilla Labs Logo Contacts is Mozilla Labs project to pull together user's various address books within the web browser and make that data available to web sites the user visits more »

18 March 2010
Version 1.4 of opentaps ERP + CRM application released

opentaps Logo The opentaps developers have released version 1.4 of their Apache OFBiz-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management suite. The latest release includes several new features and changes its license to AGPLv3 more »

18 March 2010
Mono for Android

Miguel de Icaza confirms Novell's plans to bring Mono to Google's Android more »

18 March 2010
Pocket computer with open hardware platform for 99 euros

Ben NanoNote Under the company name of Qi Hardware, ex-OpenMonki employees have have released the Ben NanoNote pocket computer. The device is the size of a cigarette box, costs $99 and is available as an open hardware platform under a copyleft licence more »

18 March 2010
Google's Native Client goes ARM and beyond

ARM processors are now supported by Google's Native Client, but Google has its eye on future processors and are working on PNaCl, a processor independent version of the technology more »

17 March 2010
Novell and Ingres announce SUSE Appliance Program agreement

Novell Logo Novell and Ingres have announced a new cooperative agreement under which the Ingres database is now available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program more »

17 March 2010
Mozilla officially drops support for SeaMonkey 1.x

SeaMonkey Logo Mozilla has announced that it is officially discontinuing support for the 1.x branch of its SeaMonkey "all-in-one internet application suite", the successor to the old Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Application suites more »

17 March 2010
Alert!Security vulnerability in SpamAssassin filter module

SpamAssassin logo Attackers are attempting to take control of mail servers, in particular those running Postfix and SpamAssassin, by exploiting a security vulnerability in the SpamAssassin Milter plug-in more »

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