Student application for Google Summer of Code is now open
Yesterday evening Google opened the student application phase for Google Summer of Code 2010. Students can now start handing in applications for projects they want to work on during the summer.
At TYPO3, you can find a list of project ideas our community has come up with. It's also worth re-checking the ideas page as some additions have been made since we created those pages for this years Google Summer of Code.
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Sun VirtualBox 3.1.6 update
VirtualBox 3.1.6 is out. Nothing really new to the program if it is slightly improved stability and fixed many bugs.
The virtualization of Linux distributions has also been central to the efforts of development teams.
In short, this is a minor update. But who sends a major message. The virtualization solution from Sun continues to enjoy the support of the new company owner. In other words, Oracle will take an indirect response to those who worried about the future of VirtualBox after the takeover of the publisher.
VirtualBox 3.1.6 is available (Windows, Mac, Linux (32 and 64 bit) on this page. The tool is also compatible with Solaris / OpenSolaris.
Microsoft will release this afternoon urgent patch for Internet Explorer, which corrects several security vulnerabilities
Microsoft announced yesterday the online release this afternoon of an urgent update for versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer.
The proposed patch out of cycle patch Tuesday (a set of patches released on the second Tuesday of each month), is to correct flaws that affect all versions of Internet Explorer including IE8, and on all operating systems including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft did not give details of these vulnerabilities are classified as critical and said that this patch will concern in particular a flaw in versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer, but it also includes fixes for 9 other faults that also affect the version 8 browser.
A hacker sentenced to 20 years in jail for datas stealing
After a long deliberation, it is a heavy verdict was delivered several months late on the date announced in early trials.
Remember in late 2009, we had talked of Albert Gonzalez, the pirate who stole more than 130 million numbers of credit cards.
At his trial, he had finally decided to plead guilty.
The attacker was disturbed 28 years of the sentence awaiting him, but he expected a sentence too heavy?
On Thursday, he was sentenced by a court in Boston (Massachusetts) to twenty years imprisonment.
This is the highest penalty ever imposed for piracy data
The 28 year old man did not stop in so good way, and it will compare this weekend to charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and identity theft for other acts of piracy.
His sentence could thus extend to 5 years.
American justice has wanted to make this case an example, as explained by Judge Patti Saris: "Even if you have any remorse (...), I must send a message, given the enormous cost of your crime" .
Albert Gonzales was most hidden one million dollars in the garden of her parents. Amount he has returned to the authorities to repay some of his victims.
Gonzales wanted to put 15 million dollars later, bought a yacht and retire. It will take, for sure, but in the shade.
Source : developpez.com
Google Chrome 5.0 in beta for all platforms
Since Friday, Chrome, the browser that Google keeps gaining market share, is available in beta for version 5.
If it does not change much for users of Windows, however it will be greeted with more enthusiasm by using Linux and Mac owners.
Chrome 5.0.342.7 proposes in effect for the first time these two platforms for machine translation and features for further surfing confidentially. The icing on the cake (for some), the Geolocation API is also on the menu.
Note that Chrome 5.0.36 (rather 5.0.360.2) also arrived, but in alpha. Main novelty, the bookmarks are now managed directly from a tab.
Google Chrome 5.0.342.7 beta for Mac OS X and Linux.
Google Chrome 5.0.342.8 beta for Windows.
Pwn2Own: an iPhone hacked in 20 seconds
When Pwn2Own hacking contest, the database that contains the SMS from the iPhone did not take long.
Two hackers, enzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann, managed to introduce himself and to copy any content (including SMS, which had been deleted) by redirecting users to a compromised website.
All this in record time, since they were just 20 seconds to suck all the data from the database of the iPhone. their technique could also provide access to contacts, photos, audio, etc ... the smartphone.
The two men received $ 15,000 for their victory, and details of their achievement will not be revealed until Apple has been informed of this vulnerability and the patch it.
Souce : developpez.com
First malware to practice overwrite discovered hidden in an Adobe Updater
A malicious code has been spotted for the first time by computer security experts.
Indeed, researchers have discovered a malware that replaces the updates to certain applications. Usually, such programs do not overwrite practice.
Only computers running Windows are affected. The malware hides in the form of an updater for Adobe products or Java. A variant mimics Adobe Reader v.9 and overwrite AdobeUpdater.exe, which aims to connect regularly to the Adobe servers to check if a new version is available.
Once installed on a warm machine, the malware opens a client DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), DNS (Domain Name System), a network share, and a port to receive commands.
According to an expert at Trend Micro, good antivirus should detect this threat. It also states that infected computers will be altered even after uninstalling the malware, because they will lose the auto-update any infected software, exposing the machine has other threats if patches can not then be quickly installed (because of this defect). It will indeed users victim of these malicious codes, start to download updates to their hand, what some will do or will not want to do.
Source : Nguyen Cong Cuong's blog (Security analyst)
Opera Mini 5 on iPhone : the movie
After being announced just before the Mobile World Congress 2010, the application of mobile web browser Opera Mini for iPhone has been officially proposed on the Apple App Store this week.
A submission form small provocation may well plunge in Apple's dilemma a little complicated if the application is accepted and validated, she returned to competition with its own browser, which may highlight its limitations (if one According to the video, Opera Mini is three to four times faster for viewing pages that Safari Mobile). If Apple refuses, he goes for the bad service from a community of enthusiasts and mobile Internet, which is perhaps not appropriate in this day and age.
While waiting to know the outcome of this unbearable suspense here is the product: an official video, made by Opera, Opera Mini on iPhone 5. If it works as well as true, the alternative may be very sympathetic.
Source : Presse-citron.net