The H Roundup for the week ending 27 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 – all in one quick-to-scan news item.
Top News
It was reported that Mac OS X 10.7.x Lion contains a bug that makes it fail to check passwords when authenticating using LDAP; an "Apache Killer" script that could be used to cripple an Apache Web Server was published to the Full Disclosure mailing list. Modders set up a cash bounty for an HP TouchPad Android port and a security specialist showed how UPnP-enabled routers are vulnerable to attack using the Umap tool. The first alpha of Fedora 16 "Verne" arrived for testing.
- Mac OS X Lion fails to check passwords when authenticating via LDAP
- Tool causes Apache web server to freeze
- Modders offer bounty for HP TouchPad Android port
- UPnP-enabled routers allow attacks on LANs
- Alpha version of Fedora 16 "Verne" released
- GIMP 2.7.3 arrives with single-window mode
- PHP users warned not to upgrade to 5.3.7
- BackTrack 5.0 updated with new tools
- Twitter open sources Bootstrap web front-end toolkit
- WordPress powers 14.7 per cent of the top million web sites
Featured Articles
This week, in the lead up to Ruby on Rails 3.1, J. Austin Hughey took a look at the new features that were added between versions 2.3 and 3.0 of Rails, The H published the first in a short series of articles introducing the upcoming TransferSummit in Oxford, Dr. Oliver Diedrich reflected back on twenty years of Linux, and Richard Hillesley discussed why Gentoo is not like any other Linux distribution.
- From Rails 2.3 to 3.0
- TransferSummit: Evolving open innovation in software
- The history of Linux
- Digging deeper with Gentoo Linux
Open Source Releases
- BackTrack 5.0 updated with new tools
- Pidgin IM client 2.10.0 closes holes
- Arch Linux 2011.08.19 released
- JetBrains releases Meta Programming System 2.0
- Twitter open sources Bootstrap web front-end toolkit
- Chrome 13 update patches security vulnerabilities
- GIMP 2.7.3 arrives with single-window mode
- PHP 5.3.8 fixes cryptographic function bug
- Shotwell photo manager offers hierarchic tags and BMP support
- IPFire open source firewall improves network throughput
- New interface for Nagios fork, Icinga 1.5
- phpMyAdmin updates close XSS hole
- First release candidate of PostgreSQL 9.1 arrives
- Symfony 2.0 update fixes bugs
Security Alerts
- Mac OS X Lion fails to check passwords when authenticating via LDAP
- Tool causes Apache web server to freeze
- phpMyAdmin updates close XSS hole
- Threat presented by F-Secure ActiveX component
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