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iTunes 10 addresses 13 security vulnerabilities

(heise online, 02.09.2010 11:14) All of the holes are contained in WebKit and can be exploited to compromise systems

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Secunia's PSI 2.0 beta tackles Windows update annoyances

(heise online, 01.09.2010 17:18) Outdated programs make it easy for attackers to compromise a system. The newly released beta of version 2.0 of Secunia's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) not only sniffs out vulnerable software, it also updates some programs automatically

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Microsoft continues to workaround DLL vulnerability

(heise online, 01.09.2010 15:24) Microsoft has released a 'fix-it' which automatically creates the registry entry required to protect against the DLL vulnerability

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Archos releases five budget Android tablets

(heise online, 01.09.2010 12:57) French vendor Archos is set on Android: At the IFA consumer electronics fair, the company presents a total of five mobile devices with Google's operating system - from a pocket model up to a 10.1-inch tablet PC

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Unpatched security holes: IBM re-evaluates

(heise online, 31.08.2010 15:22) A report by IBM said that Google left every third critical hole unpatched in the first half of 2010. IBM have now admitted their mistake and corrected their report

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Two month breathing space for Indian BlackBerry users

(heise online, 31.08.2010 12:20) The bone of contention is the Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES) communication service for businesses. The Indian government is demanding complete access to the service, RIM is maintaining that it cannot provide this on principle. RIM has now made proposals which are to be implemented and examined

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Microsoft tool for DLL vulnerability interferes with some applications

(heise online, 30.08.2010 16:50) Users wanting to use the tool to protect themselves from the DLL vulnerability in multiple applications will find their ability to use certain programs, among them Chrome, restricted

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Rails 3: New release completes integratation of Merb

(heise online, 30.08.2010 12:31) The Rails developers say that everything is now "better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful" as Rails 3 completes the incorporation of the concepts of former competitor Merb

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Google cancels JavaOne participation

(heise online, 30.08.2010 10:43) Google has announced that it will not be attending Oracle organised JavaOne conference because of the Oracle's lawsuit which claims Google has infringed Java patents

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JavaOne: Larry Ellison to chart Java future

(heise online, 24.08.2010 15:31) Oracle has announced that the opening keynote at JavaOne will be presented by Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison and Executive Vice President Thomas Kurian. The theme will be the company's plans for Java and the strategic future of the Java programming language

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Intel and Nokia open first joint research lab

(heise online, 24.08.2010 12:43) More than 20 researchers and developers at Oulu University's Centre for Internet Excellence are to work on creating new user interfaces for mobile devices

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OpenSolaris Governance Board resigns

(heise online, 23.08.2010 18:13) As it had previously threatened, the OpenSolaris Governance Board (OGB) has now resigned. The dissolution motion was proposed and passed unopposed in a fourteen minute long meeting of the OGB

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Police confiscate hardware from VPN provider

(heise online, 23.08.2010 15:40) Police have searched a house in Erfurt in Germany and confiscated five computers from an administrator in the Perfect Privacy VPN network

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W3C launches Web Performance Working Group

(heise online, 23.08.2010 11:51) The W3C Web Performance Working Group will look at user agent features and APIs to measure aspects of web application performance

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Critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat plugged

(heise online, 20.08.2010 14:01) The software vendor has released an unscheduled update to fix vulnerabilities in all previous versions of Reader, including a code injection vulnerability

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Google adds Linux support to voice and video chat

(heise online, 20.08.2010 12:09) Google has announced that it has now officially added Linux support to its voice and video chat service, which was originally introduced in November of 2008

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Nexenta Core 3.0 released, next version will be Illumos based

(heise online, 20.08.2010 11:43) The Nexenta project has shipped Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, which will be the last version based directly on the OpenSolaris code base as future versions will switch to the Illumos project's OpenSolaris fork

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Google closes critical vulnerabilities in Chrome 5

(heise online, 20.08.2010 11:20) Google has released version 5.0.375.127 of Chrome, a security update that addresses two "critical" and six "high" risk vulnerabilities in its WebKit-based browser

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Adobe AIR to arrive on Android later this year

(heise online, 19.08.2010 17:32) Adobe has confirmed that it will deliver its cross-platform AIR runtime environment for Google's open source Android mobile operating system by the end of this year

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New Windows vulnerability: Applications download malicious code from the net

(heise online, 19.08.2010 17:12) In certain circumstances, when Windows downloads DLLs for installed applications from the internet a flaw allows attackers to inject arbitrary programs into users' systems

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