The H Roundup for the week ending 13 August
Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles â all in one quick-to-scan news item.
Top news
Over the security focused week, Google admitted they would hand over European data to the US authorities, a fake Firefox was found fouling systems, Microsoft explained why scareware is in, a huge hole in SAP's Netweaver let anyone be an admin and Anonymous dumped 7.4Â GB of US police data.
- Google also passes on European data to US authorities
- Fake Firefox update includes password-stealing trojan
- Microsoft expert: "viruses arenât worth money, but scareware is"
- Major security hole in SAP's NetWeaver
- Anonymous dump 7.4 GB of US law enforcement web sites
- Anonymous claim Syrian MOD web site defacement
- Plans for KDE's fifth generation announced
- Samba 3.6.0 released
- Knoppix 6.7.0 Live Linux distribution released
- Fedora not to switch to Btrfs in version 16
Featured articles
The week saw the first release candidate for Linux 3.1 arrive and Thorsten Leemhuis was there with the first details. Wendy Grossman followed the teens taking part in Young Rewired State 2011, using technology and young people for good, and Richard Hillesley looked at how desktop Linux has failed in the past and wondered if there wasn't a better foundation to build on.
- Kernel Log: First release candidate for Linux 3.1
- Young Rewired State 2011
- A foundation for the desktop â one apple, two ideas
Open Source Releases
- Tiny Core Linux 3.8 released
- Gentoo Linux 11.2 LiveDVD released
- TYPO3 updates plug multiple security holes
- Infinispan 5.0 offers more than 45 new features
- PolarSSL freezes for 1.0
- Samba 3.6.0 released
- QEMU 0.15 offers full Xen support
- KMyMoney 4.6.0 adds CSV import
Development Releases
- First milestone of Eclipse with Java 7 support
- First milestone in Univention Corporate Server 3.0
- XtreemFS 1.3.0 release candidate arrives with new licence
Security Alerts
- Major security hole in SAP's NetWeaver
- Adobe fixes critical vulnerabilities in four products on patch day
- Security update for ISC's DHCP server
For everything the H has published in the last week, check out the last seven days of news.
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