News & Features
Friday, 24 May 2013
Starting in August, Google will issue new certificates for its services. The company especially plans to scrap certificates with old 1024-bit RSA keys and replace them with 2048-bit ones
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On The H's radar over the last seven days: how to store and protect SSH keys, Wireshark 1.8.7 and 1.6.15, game engine vulnerabilities, Volatility plugins, irrevocable SSL certificates, and historical parallels to the internet
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Reporters investigating a leak of personal information from two phone companies found themselves facing a cease-and-desist letter from the companies who accused them of hacking their systems, a claim the news service denies
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An introduction to analysing the Blackberry Z10 and the new Blackberry OS
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Google has release Chrome 28 to the beta release channel. The new version brings faster page rendering and a number of new developer features like fullscreen mode and WebGL in the Android version
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Twitter has now applied its Innovators Patent Agreement to a recently granted patent in a move designed to ensure that patents under the agreement are only used for defensive purposes
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The Tizen Developers Conference saw a glimpse of a desktop/laptop version of Tizen from Intel, the latest update to Tizen's SDK, and an application competition launched
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Less than a month after the smartphone's commercial launch, Dan Rosenberg found a design flaw in Samsung's secured bootloader that allows arbitrary kernels to be booted even on a locked phone
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Thursday, 23 May 2013
Plasma Workspaces 4.11 is to receive two years of stabilisation updates from its release, under a long-term support (LTS) scheme. KDE applications are not affected by the freeze and more feature releases of the desktop are expected
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Current customers can still use the products until their subscription runs out. Symantec says that customers who are affected by the change should switch to Norton products
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This edition of the Open Recall catches up with a number of open source project releases: siduction 13.1.0, Puppy Linux 5.6, Wifislax 4.4, Diaspora 0.1.0.0 and Moodle 2.5
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NoPackageCyclesEnforcerRule automatically detects cyclical dependencies between classes from different packages; Macker helps define specific dependencies between packages and automatically verifies those rules
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Apple has released QuickTime 7.7.4, fixing 12 critical security holes causing memory corruption and buffer overflows when processing a number of media formats
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Google has announced that it will discontinue the ability for new projects on Google Code to host direct downloads of files. Existing downloads will continue to be available
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A code sent by SMS, in addition to the standard password, will improve security for Twitter accounts - not a bad idea, after recent problems with hacked accounts sending out false reports
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Seneca College has released Pidora 18, its Fedora remix optimised for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. It features a special headless mode that makes it easy to install the distribution over the network
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At the LinuxTag conference, the leader of Munich's Linux migration project, Peter Hofmann, emphasised that the City of Munich has no intentions to switch its Linux desktops to Windows
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Chrome 27.0.1453.93 closes 17 security vulnerabilities for which Google has paid out almost $15,000. The newest version of the browser also improves page load speed for pages with many assets
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Digia is bringing Android's base layer and Qt's UI framework together to make a platform that's aimed at embedded device makers who want a slick user interface on their systems
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Unscrupulous profiteers are openly offering DDoS attacks as a service. They have no fear of being prosecuted - according to a reputable US blogger, the prosecutors themselves might be on board
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In his personal blog, open source advocate Simon Phipps has pointed out that Google's proposed cross-licence for the VP8/WebM video codec patents is incompatible with multiple parts of the open source definition
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Available free of charge, the Clueful app exposes Android programs that don't take users' privacy seriously enough, for example by sending personal information to advertising networks
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The developers of the Debian project have released the first major version of the Debian userland with the GNU Hurd kernel. Even though it is not an official Debian release, it is in "a very decent state" say the developers
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The memory-mapped I/O can potentially double the performance of the embeddable SQL engine but care needs to be taken with its use. Other enhancements make SQLite databases easier to identify and improve error reporting
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Microsoft's Skype division has released a new version of its proprietary voice, video and text messaging client for Linux that includes user interface improvements and fixes a number of bugs including a crashing problem when using the call window
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