MegaPanzer: Parts of Possible Govware Trojan Released under GPL
Aug 28, 2009The name Ruben Unteregger may well become more newsworthy in the next few days. Unteregger has been working at the Swiss ERA IT Solutions company to develop the trojans MegaPanzer and MiniPanzer and has released the code under GPL.
more »Two Million for Wikimedia: Who Can Offer More?
Aug 27, 2009Describing itself as a philanthropic investment company, the Omydar Network has donated two million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation.
more »KDE Applet for Frequent Flyers
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more »Kaspersky Lab: Spammers Do Their Own Advertising
Aug 27, 2009In its semi-annual spam report, the Russian security experts Kaspersky Lab have concluded the economic crisis has had no bearing on the amount of spam distributed worldwide. However, spammers have had to turn to creating ads for their very own services.
more »FSF and GNOME Calling Women of Community
Aug 26, 2009The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNOME Foundation are targeting higher women's participation in the community. The first step is a "mini-summit" on "Women in Free Software."
more »Thursday is Feature-Freeze for Ubuntu 9.10
Aug 25, 2009Whoever wants their favorite features integrated into Karmic Koala will have to hurry. From Thursday, the impending Ubuntu will accept no more changes.
more »SVG Web: Google Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer
Aug 25, 2009Microsoft is a true master when it comes to ignoring Web standards. Thanks to Google, that could now change in terms of the SVG vector graphics format.
more »Appweb 3: Embedded Webserver with JavaScript Framework
Aug 25, 2009The embedded webserver Appweb is available in version 3.0. The new release improves performance, introduces a server-side JavaScript framework and runs on more operating systems than ever before.
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