Seems like McAfee has created a new Internet-based service to provide active protection on the fly when a PC gets hit by malicious computer code. “[Artemis] is a lot faster than traditional methodologies and it closes the gap between when a piece of malware is written, discovered, analyzed and protected against … Artemis is available at no charge as part of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise or McAfee Total Protection Service for small and medium-sized businesses. Artemis is also available for McAfee’s consumer products, where the functionality is called Active Protection.”
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An anonymous reader recommends a speculative blog entry by Chris Soghoian up on CNet. Soghoian makes a convincing case that the NSA could be using loopholes in the law to gather real-time location information on the mobile phones of millions of people. There is no hard evidence that this is happening, but the blog post sheds light on the dense undergrowth of companies populating the wireless space that could be easy pickings for a National Security Letter with a gag order attached. “While these household names of the telecom industry [AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint] almost certainly helped the government to illegally snoop on their customers, statements by a number of legal experts suggest that collaboration with the NSA may run far deeper into the wireless phone industry. With over 3,000 wireless companies operating in the United States, the majority of industry-aided snooping likely occurs under the radar, with the dirty work being handled by companies that most consumers have never heard of.”
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Rock Band 2, Panic at the Disco, and free drinks? Yes please.
gCAD3D is a 3D CAD-CAM application that features
an integrated 3D OpenGL viewer, a program
interpreter for geometry and NC-commands in 3D, an
integrated NC-processor, and a programming
interface for user programs. It has support for
importing Step files and support for both
importing and exporting Iges, DXF, and VRML
files.
License: Freeware
Changes:
This release uses JPEG images for textures. It has interactive modification of the scale/position of textures. The Windows port uses GTK 2.12.
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Web
application that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, or
Postgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, and
collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has
been created, data can be inserted into the survey
either by a “pretty” public screen which presents
each question one at a time, or by a quick and
nasty data entry screen. It includes the capacity
to generate individualized “tokens”, so that
invitations can be issued to participants. It also
has the capacity to set conditions on whether
questions will display (branching), numerous
question types, and a basic statistics function.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Language files have been updated, and there are 2 fixes.
ScopServ-VoIP is a Web-based management interface (GUI) for the Asterisk system which can be accessed by any XHTML 1.0+ browser. It supports a lot of features like: multiple languages, multiple users, reporting tools, personal IVR, and an end user UI. It is available in SOHO, SMB, Professional, and ITSP editions.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
Multiple bugfixes have been made. It’s now possible to bypass PIN authentication on outgoing lines for some kinds of calls, like Follow Me and Speed Dial. Support has been added for the Cisco 7911 and Polycom IP450 in the Provisioning system. In Voicemail options, it’s now possible to enable Remote MWI mode, which allows you to turn on/off the MWI on remote non-asterisk PBX, e.g. on a Cisco Call Manager.
libmemcached is a C client library for interfacing
to a memcached server. It has been designed to be
light on memory usage, thread safe and to provide
full access to server side methods. It also
implements several command line tools: memcat,
memflush, memrm, memstat, and memslap (for load
generation). The library has been designed to
allow for different hashing methods on keys,
partitioning by keys, and to use consistent
hashing for distribution.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
Improved support for Solaris. Support for weighted Ketama. A fix for Chinese encoding. A fix for 0 length key to trigger bad key. The behaviors MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SND_TIMEOUT, and MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RCV_TIMEOUT have been added. Support for Binary Protocol has been added.
The KaufKauf Shoppingmanager is a Web-based
application that allows you to manage your goods
at home. It supports barcode scanners for faster
management, and it automatically creates shopping
lists that can be printed out or downloaded by
cellphone. It also watches “best before” dates and
informs you via email or SMS when foods reach that
date. The complete application is a system that
can be accessed from nearly everywhere and offers
you the possibility to find out what you really
need next from the supermarket.
License: Freeware
Changes:
A bug in the shopping list that disabled the close button permanently has been fixed. A race condition during initialization has been corrected. This release has been prepared for localization.
gnoMint is a tool for easily creating and managing
certification authorities. It provides fancy
visualization of all the pieces of information
that pertain to a CA, such as x509 certificates,
CSRs, and CRLs. gnoMint is currently capable of
managing a CA that emits certificates that are
able to authenticate people or machines in VPNs
(IPSec or other protocols), secure HTTP
communications with SSL/TLS, authenticate and
cipher HTTP communications through Web-client
certificates, and sign or crypt email messages.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
There is an initial Czech translation. Now, when exporting certs, the full certification path is exported and saved. There is a new feature for generating PKCS#3 Diffie-Hellman parameters. There are also several fixes. Lists order has been fixed. A problem while generating DSA CSRs has been fixed. There are patches for fixing i18n and autotools misconfigurations.
libSpiff is a C++ library for reading and writing
XSPF playlists. Both version 0 and 1 are
supported. It is the official reference
implementation for XSPF of the Xiph.Org Foundation.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release fully implements the error model introduced in 1.0.0rc1. libSpiff has been a very strict parser from the beginning; too strict for real world XSPF files. In a recent test on about 650 XSPF files from the Internet, only 47% held valid XSPF content. With this version’s support for error skipping, you can now read 73% of these files, mainly leaving only files with errors on the XML level out. Still, when needed, libSpiff can act as a validator as strict as before. Please note this release is neither source- nor binary-compatible.
MailSteward will archive all of your email in a
database for easy retrieval, without touching or
modifying the email in your email client program.
Just click on the Store Email in Database button
and MailSteward will go to work storing copies of
all your email, both text and HTML versions, and
attachments, into a relational database file. You
can then retrieve email and attachments from the
database by searching on Date, From, To, Subject,
Mailbox, or Body text.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
A bug that caused the raw headings field to not be created in some rare circumstances has been fixed. A bug that caused scheduling to not work in the demo version has been fixed. A new feature to search for a string anywhere in the email, in any of the fields, has been added.
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to
display information about, extract streams from,
merge several streams into, and split Matroska
media files. Supported video stream types include
streams from AVIs, Ogg/OGM, and RealVideo files.
Supported audio formats include Vorbis, RealAudio,
MP3, MP2, FLAC, AC3, and AAC. Several subtitle
formats are supported, including SRT, SSA, ASS,
VobSub, and many others. The resulting files can
be played back with various media players on
Linux/Unix or the Matroska Direct Show filters
under Windows.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Newly supported features include DTS-HD tracks (both “high definition” and “master audio”), Ogg Kate text subtitles, skipping of ID3 tags in AAC and AC3 files, Vorbis-in-AVI, delaying any track type, and floating point WAV files. Several bugs were fixed including time code handling for various track types and use cases, A/V desynchronization in VOBs, incorrect VobSub packets, and more.
Group-Office is a Web-based office suite written that is extensible with modules. It
features user management, module management, an
email client, a file manager, a calendar, project
management, Web site management, and customer relations management. It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
License: Affero General Public License
Changes:
Many bugfixes in all modules.
Z-push is an implementation of the ActiveSync
protocol, which is used ‘over-the-air’ for
multi-platform ActiveSync devices including
Windows Mobile, Ericsson, and Nokia phones. It
allows any e-mail or groupware system using
Maildir to be connected and synced with these devices.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Improved iPhone support. A custom TNEF parser for meeting requests.
BitNami ezPublish Stack is an easy-to-install
distribution of the ezPublish software. It
includes pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of
Apache, PHP, and MySQL, so users can get a
ezPublish installation up and running in minutes
after answering a few questions. Linux, Windows,
and Mac OS X are currently supported.
License: OSI Approved
Changes:
ezPublish has been updated to 4.0.1.
proxyScan.pl is a security penetration testing
tool to scan for hosts and ports through a Web
proxy server. Features include various HTTP
methods such as GET, CONNECT, HEAD as well as host
and port ranges.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This release adds a proxy option to the command line -x|–proxy.
Collabtive is Web-based project management
software. It aims to become an alternative to
tools like Active Collab or Basecamp. Features
include projects, todo lists, tasks, milestones,
files, timetracking, internal messages, and an
AJAX based instant messenger combined through an
intuitive user interface.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Collabtive 0.4.8 brings new features, feature improvements, and bugfixes. New features include support for adding, using, and deleting subfolders, time zone handling, and improved milestones. Some UI glitches have been fixed.
Open MPI is a project that originated as the
merging of technologies and resources from
several other projects (FT- MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI,
and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI
library available. A completely new MPI-2
compliant implementation, Open MPI offers
advantages for system and software vendors,
application developers, and computer science
researchers. It is easy to use, and runs natively
on a wide variety of operating systems, network
interconnects, and batch/scheduling systems.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
The Fortran 90 binding for MPI_CART_GET was fixed.
Spurious ROMIO/IO warnings were removed. A bug was
fixed to ensure command line MCA parameters always
override environment-set MCA parameters. A bug in
AMD64 assembly was fixed. Intercommunicator
gather/scatter was fixed. More man page fixes were
made. An openib BTL check is done to see if
devices are present before activating itself. More
vendor IDs were added for InfiniBand HCAs.
EmptyCrate Game Engine allows for the creation of
first person 2d adventure games using a Drupal
module. Once the game is written it is rendered
using a Flash 9 application embedded in the Drupal
page, making the adventure game instantly
available to virtually anyone with an Internet
enabled device. The engine represents the
culmination of several years of ideas which
finally were able to come together with the right
combination of technologies. The realized goal was
to make adventure games so accessible and easy to
write that it would be possible to create an
episodic game that is updated several times a
week, similar to a Web comic.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Inventory management was cleaned up. The ability
to use items with each other inside of the
inventory was added. The dimensions of the Flash
game player were fixed to make sure it works
properly with smaller screen sizes such as the
Nokia Maemo platform or the Eee.
