Three security issues have been identified in the Open Source implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol, OpenSSL. The vulnerabilities allow targeted attacks.

Loss free audio codecs are gaining in popularity with device manufacturers; right now, a vulnerability in the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) spoils users listening pleasure.

Not quite a year after the previous version, the developers have now released GNU Debugger 6.7.

Two years after acquiring the company that developed AppArmor Novell has dismissed the developer behind the security technology.

Mozilla is working on a Firefox browser for mobile devices and it looks likely that it will run on Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux.

Speaking in an interview with Linux Magazine, Germany, Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Germany boss, and Red Hat Vice President EMEA, called the verbal attacks by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unsubstantiated.

High availability and scalability are Oracle’s objectives with the new database driver for PHP. The pre-release version is available for testing now.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has again demanded license payments from Red Hat users.

Legal expert Mark Webbink, who formerly worked for Red Hat, has just joined the Board of Directors of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Webbinks gained expert knowledge of intellectual property in his former position with the Linux enterprise.

Version 1.0.0 of the Tarmail mail server has just been released. The developers claim that their software is particularly resilient against exploits, spam and email worms.