The H Roundup for the week ending 9 July
Welcome to The H Roundup. The H has listened and now presents a rapid review of the week with the most read news, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.
Top news
This week's most popular story was a security alert on how a backdoor was spotted in vsftpd. Also: Oracle's patent problems, Firefox memory leaks, PDF rendering in JavaScript and the Brazillian government's open source office.
- Vsftpd backdoor discovered in source code
- Another problem for Oracle's patents
- Firefox developers locate a source of bloat
- pdf.js hits first milestone perfectly
- Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice
- Microsoft releases Security Essentials 2.1
- Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 dents iPhone security
- Cracking DES faster with John the Ripper
- No more Googling for .co.cc domains
- Chrome mentioned in Microsoft's latest patent deal
Feature articles
How secure is your iPhone? This week The H showed it wasn't an impregnable fortress and offered some tips on how to keep it secure. Also: Richard Hillesley looked at the history and future of OpenOffice at Apache and Thorsten Leemhuis detailed what is coming in Linux 3.0's infrastructure and architecture support.
- iOpener - How safe is your iPhone data?
- Three iPhone and iPad security tips
- OpenOffice - splits and pirouettes
- Kernel Log: Coming in 3.0 (Part 3) - Infrastructure
- UCubed: Running an Ubuntu/Debian unconference
Security Alerts
Open Source Releases
- GNU Awk gets major tune up in version 4.0.0
- WordPress for WebOS arrives for HP TouchPads
- Twitter releases TwUI framework for Mac
- SeaMonkey 2.2 Beta 3 released for testing
- Mercurial 1.9 released with set support
- WordPress 3.2 brings Zen editing to blogging
- Four new Sabayon Linux 6 "Core" releases
- phpMyAdmin updates patch critical holes
- Cracking DES faster with John the Ripper
- Conversation view add-on for Thunderbird now stable
- First release candidate for JDK 7
- Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 arrives for testing
- KDE SC 4.6.5 update released
- Mozilla releases SeaMonkey 2.2 based on Firefox 5
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![Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 3) [--] Infrastructure](/imgs/43/1/0/4/2/6/7/2/comingin310_4_kicker-4977194bfb0de0d7.png)
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