The H Roundup for the week ending 8 October
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
Security specialists discovered a hole in the Apache web server that could be exploited by attackers to access internal servers, and a built-in logging app on HTC Android devices was found to be accessible by any other installed app. The Kernel.org web servers finally came back online following an attack in late August, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was given a name, and a Firefox developer gave details of how future software updates will work.
- Apache hole allows attackers to access internal servers
- Backdoor in HTC Android smartphones
- Kernel.org partially back online
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS named "Precise Pangolin"
- Firefox developer reveals changes and new update service
- Chrome 14 update brings Flash 11, closes security holes
- Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux
- Fedora 16 'Verne' beta released
- Android trojan hides behind QR code
- Java FX 2.0 tries again
Featured Articles
This week, The H published the fourth episode of series two of CSI:Internet in which a forensic expert took apart the TDL4 rootkit, and Richard Hillesley looked at the first year of The Document Foundation as LibreOffice turned one year old last month.
Open Source Releases
- openSUSE 12.1 Beta arrives for testing
- Parted Magic 6.7 adds Xfburn CD/DVD burner tool
- FreeNAS 8.0.1 brings USB 3.0 support
- Sinatra 1.3 adds streaming
- XenServer 6 released
- Airtime radio software updated with new DEB packages
- Version 2.0 of vector graphics library Raphaël released
- Growl 1.3 for Lion arrives in the Mac App Store
- digiKam 2.2.0 fixes crashing bugs
- Fedora 16 'Verne' beta released
- Improvements to MySQL optimiser
- VirtualBox 4.1.4 features automatic extension updates
- Chrome 14 update brings Flash 11, closes security holes
- Firebird 2.5.1 improves database restore performance
- Mozilla releases Thunderbird 8 Beta
- Apache's own Java EE stack: TomEE
- SOGo 2.0: open source groupware with Outlook connectivity
- Beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released
- KDE SC 4.7.2 update arrives
- Alfresco Community 4.0 brings high-performance indexing
- IPFire open source firewall gets ARM port
- Nuxeo IDE plugs into Eclipse
- Skrooge 1.0.0 personal finance manager released
Security Alerts
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