Archive for March, 2010

US-CERT: Broadcom NetXtreme network cards vulnerable

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

A firmware buffer overflow can be triggered if Remote Management is enabled for the network interface
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Subtitles come to Miro 3.0

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Miro, the open source Internet TV / podcast downloader and player, has been updated to version 3.0 and is now able to display embedded or stand alone subtitles for videos
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MongoDB 1.4 "Ready for Production"

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

The MongoDB developers say that the latest release of their open source, scalable, document oriented database is ready for production use
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EclipseCon 2010: Enterprise version of OSGi 4.2 released

Friday, March 26th, 2010

The OSGi Alliance announced that it has approved the enterprise version of the modular component architecture OSGi (Open Service Gateway initiative) and published the specification
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Dell to offer blueprints for Ubuntu clouds

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Dell has announced that it will be adding Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) to its infrastructure solutions
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20 years in prison for stealing credit card data

Friday, March 26th, 2010

The 28-year-old defendant had admitted breaking into the computer systems of major US online vendors and stealing the credit card details of millions of users
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Red Hat announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010 earnings

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

In its 2010 fiscal year, American Linux distributor Red Hat has increased its total revenue by 15% to $748.2 million
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Man arrested for attack on Twitter accounts

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

In early 2009, a total of 33 Twitter accounts were hacked into, including accounts belonging to Barack Obama and Britney Spears. The man responsible has now been arrested and is believed to have undertaken the attack "for the challenge"
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Google’s Go programming language – four months on

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Launched in 2009 as one of the shooting stars of the programming language world, Google’s Go has continued on its way with rather less fanfare, but with a range of new features bringing the language ever closer to maturity
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Clonezilla Live adds UFS support

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The Clonezilla developers have released version 1.2.4-28 of their open source clone system. In addition to the usual bug fixes, the latest release of the LiveCD edition adds support for the Unix file system and VMware’s Virtual Machine File System
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