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Linux and Open Source News for 31st July 2010

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EasyLinuxCDs: "I recently tried the new Sabayon 5.3 LXDE release and found it to be lightweight yet still hold up Sabayon's feature packed, out-of-the-box way of doing things"


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Computerworld: "Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010."


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Developer.com: "The PHP community has never been one to shy away from bending their favorite language more ways than a shopping mall pretzel, and as the ten wild projects introduced in this article indicate, the fervor for experimentation is as strong as ever!"


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The Register: "When the mouthpiece of American capitalism calls a company a dog, it's time to re-evaluate that company's chances."


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KDE.news: "GNOME and KDE are teaming up again to host the 2011 Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany. Due to the success of the 2009 Desktop Summit the projects will co-locate GUADEC and Akademy once again in August, 2011 for the largest free software desktop event ever."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes with news that security experts from Spider Labs released a kernel level rootkit for Android devices at DefCon on Friday. "As a proof of concept, it is able to send an attacker a reverse TCP over 3G/WIFI shell upon receiving an incoming call from a 'trigger number.' This ultimately results in full root access on the Android device." The rootkit was developed over a period of two weeks, and has been handed out to DefCon attendees on DVD.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Sun Aug 1 23:55:01 2010


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