The H Roundup
Welcome to The H Roundup, your fast examination of a week with a many review news on The H, a confidence alerts and open source releases, and a essential underline articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.
Top News
The week began with Canonical fortifying a further of a new Amazon selling lens in a stream pre-release chronicle of Ubuntu 12.10 following a charge of criticism from users, after that a developers announced skeleton to supplement an choice spin off all online searches.
- Canonical defends Ubuntu 12.10′s integrated Amazon search
- Ubuntu’s Amazon hunt underline gets kill switch
The GNOME Project expelled chronicle 3.6 of a giveaway program desktop sourroundings with a reworked record manager and other improvements, a antecedent of a Wayland/Weston prolongation for digest program remotely was demonstrated, and Adobe published an open source rise designed for developers.
- GNOME 3.6 expelled with reworked record manager
- Wayland antecedent for digest program that runs remotely
- Adobe’s new open source rise for coding
After a confidence researcher demonstrated how Android-based Samsung smartphones could be remotely bureau reset regulating USSD codes, a series of other Android-based inclination were found to automatically use injected USSD codes to, for example, means a phone’s SIM label to stop working. Users can see if their device is influenced but compromising it by visiting The H‘s USSD check page during http://h-online.com/ussd from their mobile device; should a phone automatically arrangement a 15-digit IMEI number, it is many expected vulnerable.
- Remote resetting a Samsung phone done easy
- Android smartphones: USSD calls can kill SIM cards
A mutated chronicle of a open source phpMyAdmin database government apparatus that was hosted on SourceForge was found to enclose a backdoor, a new news showed that malware programmers have started to use Google’s Go denunciation and a association behind WhatsApp Messenger, that still contains a vital confidence problem, threatened authorised movement opposite a PHP framework.
- phpMyAdmin distributed with backdoor
- Malware programmers start regulating Go
- WhatsApp threatens authorised movement opposite API developers
Featured Articles
This week, Thorsten Leemhuis took a initial demeanour during what’s new in chronicle 3.6 of a GNOME desktop, and Jürgen Schmidt minute a problems with PPTP, while demonstrating how it could be burst within a day for only $200 regulating an online cloud service. The H also published a Community Calendar for October.
- First Look: GNOME 3.6
- A genocide blow for PPTP
- The H Community Calendar – Oct 2012
Open Source Releases
The Folsom recover of OpenStack arrived, chronicle 1.0 of a GStreamer multimedia horizon was released, and there were new versions of GTK+, GLib and Clutter. The Joomla CMS got a vital update, a Exaile media actor brought several improvements, and a latest recover of a Pinta Paint.NET counterpart softened digest performance.
- OpenStack’s Folsom released
- GStreamer 1.0 released
- New versions of GTK+, GLib and Clutter
- Joomla 3.0: Major chronicle burst for a open source CMS
- Exaile media actor gets vital update
- Open source Paint.NET counterpart improves digest performance
- Torque 3D games engine now accessible as open source
- Updates for PostgreSQL 9.1 and 9.2 repair vicious bugs
- Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.2 brings Deltacloud support
- RHEL 5.9 Beta includes Microsoft’s Hyper-V driver
- Second and final beta of Ubuntu 12.10 arrives
- Mobile OS Tizen 2.0 moves to Alpha
Security Alerts
- Microsoft rags vicious hole in Internet Explorer
- WhatsApp threatens authorised movement opposite API developers
- phpMyAdmin distributed with backdoor
- Cisco fixes purported DoS holes
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