Android malware being automatically distributed from hacked websites looks like it's being used to mask online purchases, and could be part of a fraud gang's new push into mobile, researchers said today.

Adobe today warned that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in its popular Flash Player program, and issued an emergency update to patch the bug.

Microsoft identified a Chinese security partner as the source of a leak last March in its highly restricted vulnerability information-sharing program.

A Windows developer, upset at the likely demise of Windows Live Writer as part of Microsoft's move to retire the Live brand, has launched an online petition drive to save the tool.

Apple's iPad reclaimed a larger share of the global tablet market last month, in part because of a more-serious-than-expected slump in sales of the hot Kindle Fire in the first quarter, IDC analysts said today.

Microsoft today said it would ship seven security updates next week, three critical, to patch 23 bugs in Windows, Office and its Silverlight and .Net development platforms.

Barnes & Noble will distribute its free Nook Metro app through Microsoft's Windows Store, putting to rest talk of Microsoft embedding the program in Windows 8.

Microsoft's decision late last year to switch on 'silent' upgrades for Internet Explorer (IE) has moved some Windows users to newer versions, but has had little, if any, impact on the oldest editions, IE6 and IE7, according to usage statistics.

Mozilla is working on a revamp of Firefox to synchronize its various versions -- desktop, tablet, phone and Windows 8 Metro -- into a single visual style, according to documents posted by members of its UI design team.

The Iranian government acknowledged today that authorities have found evidence of recent cyberattacks against several agencies, according to reports by state-sponsored media outlets.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer in April again gained usage share, the third time in the year's first four months, to stay well above the 50% mark and remain the world's top browser, a Web analytics company said today.

Microsoft on Monday declined to say whether Barnes and Noble's Nook app for Metro will be embedded into Windows 8 or Windows RT.

Windows users appear half as interested in trying out the new Windows 8 as they did three years ago when they jumped at the chance to test drive Windows 7, data shows.

Of the Macs that have been infected by the Flashback malware, nearly two-thirds are running OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, a Russian antivirus company said.

Is Apple cutting the MacBook's throat with the iPad? Apple CEO Tim Cook seems to think so, and analysts agree.

The iPad is giving Apple entree to millions of customers who have never purchased one of company's products before, a research firm said today.

Mozilla will give Firefox 3.6 the coup de grace next month by automatically upgrading users of that 2010 browser to Firefox 12.

Microsoft yesterday re-released Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 (SP2) after fixing a bug that wormed into the original update.

The long-suppressed Conficker botnet is still actively infecting millions of new machines, giving Windows enterprise users a two-and-a-half-year headache.

The Mac's contribution to Apple's bottom line fell to an all-time low last quarter, according to data from the company.

Apple today announced that its annual developers conference would run June 11-15 in San Francisco -- and inside of two hours, the event had sold out.

Apple on Tuesday announced record first-quarter revenue on the back of soaring iPhone sales, with an assist from the iPad.

Mozilla today released Firefox 12, patching 14 security bugs in the browser and moving it one step closer to matching rival Chrome in silent updating.

A new, sneakier variant of the Flashback malware has been uncovered by the French security firm Intego.

Microsoft's top Windows executive today said that the company will ship an almost-complete version of Windows 8 the first week of June.

Google today dramatically raised the bounties it pays independent researchers for reporting bugs in its core websites, services and online applications.

Iran's oil ministry today confirmed that it was the target of malware attacks over the weekend, adding to reports by state-run media that the country's oil industry was hit by hackers.

Microsoft last Friday pulled an Office for Mac 2011 major update from its upgrade servers, acknowledging bugs that have corrupted the Outlook database on some machines.

Microsoft has kicked off what it calls a 'two-year countdown' to the death of Windows XP and its Office 2003 productivity suite.

Contrary to reports by several security companies, the Flashback botnet is not shrinking, the Russian antivirus firm that first reported the massive infection three weeks ago claimed today.

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Released: May 6, 2012Length: 2:04:50 Fedora 18 will be "Spherical Cow", GIMP 2.8 and Xfce 4.10 are released, a PHP clusterfuck, Fab reviews Ubuntu 12.04, Red Hat open sources OpenShift, Django migrates to GitHub and much more 0:02:36 Introduction ...

A bug in OS X 10.7.3 exposes legacy FileVault users, but there are some workarounds to prevent this from happening. [Read more]

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An apparent programming mistake in an update to the Apple operating system, tied to FileVault encryption tech, could expose passwords in clear text. [Read more]

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Released: May 6, 2012Length: 2:04:50 Fedora 18 will be "Spherical Cow", GIMP 2.8 and Xfce 4.10 are released, a PHP clusterfuck, Fab reviews Ubuntu 12.04, Red Hat open sources OpenShift, Django migrates to GitHub and much more 0:02:36 Introduction ...

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OpenMediaVault review, Ubuntu 12.04 release, Slackware rumors, Open-source applications live streaming, Trisquel 5.5, AtlasX, more.

Released: April 29, 2012Length: 1:16:38 Google drops Linux support for Picasa, Raspberry Pi deliveries begin, Twitter sponsors the Apache Foundation, Oracle vs. Google update, Mint, Fedora and Ubuntu release names, an update on systemd development and...

Released: April 22, 2012Length: 1:31:46 Oracle accidentally releases DoS proof of concept, Zack gets voted DPL for another year, Oracle vs. Google suit kicks off, Canonical releases AWSOME, another ORG update, some awesome Skyrim music and more 0:0...

FreeNAS 8.0.4, Stefano Zacchiroli re-elected DPL, new sponsor for Kubuntu, cron and crontab, more.

Released: April 16, 2012Length: 1:38:36 Beard-a-Thon 2012, ownCloud releases first commercial version, Samba closes a bad security hole, Blue Systems take over the sponsorship of Kubuntu, udev and systemd are merging, Raspberry Pi problems, Microsoft ...

Chakra GNU/Linux review, Ubuntu's HUD, Gentoo's install wizard, Interview with Fabio Erculani, GPG keys, Wary and Racy, GNU ddrescue gets 260 euros, more.

Released: April 9, 2012Length: 1:47:20 Ulrich Drepper ousted from glibc, EU Parliament goes nuts on proposed punishment for hacking, Blackboard buys two Moodle support companies, Debian joins the OSI and Microsoft starts supporting Git with CodePlex ...

PapugLinux review, GNOME 4, ARM in Fedora, Webconverger 12.1, RapidDisk LX, Kris Moore interview, more.

Released: April 1, 2012Length: 0:26:16 In another special episode with temporary guest presenter Popey, Fab talks about his new job and we have some minor disagreements about the future of the show Fab will be joining the Canonical Design Team to w...

Released: March 29, 2012Length: 0:33:06 OggCamp 12 is coming and we tell you everything about it; with special guest Alan "Popey" Pope from the Ubuntu UK Podcast On this special episode, we are joined by Alan "Popey" Pope and announce OggCamp 12! ...

Released: March 25, 2012Length: 1:46:46 Audacity 2.0 released, Humble Android Bundle 2, Assange to run for Aussie Senate, "Anonymous" Linux, CyanogenMod 9 to ship without root, Open Street Map switching licenses and Mark Shuttleworth says Ubuntu beats...

Released: March 18, 2012Length: 1:52:36 Nvidia joins the Linux Foundation, Pwn2Own news, Raspberry Pi manufacturing issues, jQuery Foundation launched, Arch turns ten, Apple releases some new thing, the Windows 8 interface is screwed up and the LulzSe...

Released: March 11, 2012Length: 1:50:16 The Raspberry Pi is released, Microsoft's cloud goes down because of a leap year bug, Linus calls OpenSuse developers “fundamentalistic taliban”, Foursquare switches to Open Street Map, Fab talks about Mari0 and...

Skirlet and Klaatu discuss art workflows in GNU Linux, the benefits of modularity, and all the possible future features of GIMP, and how great Inkscape and Scribus are. Nom nom nom!

Show Notes Segment 0 (00:33) Bradley mentioned the birthday attack when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the show might match the number of the day. (01:38) This show is a recording of Aaron and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk,...

Show Notes Be sure to make sure your feeds available on faif.us if you haven't already! Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) If you have not moved your RSS feed already away from softwarefreedom.org, and to faif.us, you should do tha...

Ron Terry and Erin Quill Talk with Patrick Gookin and Brent McCormick and get us up to speed on Compliance Management Platform, which includes three products, Identity Manager, Access Manager and Sentinel. Compliance Management Platform

Erin Quill and Ron Terry chat with Michele Hudnall, Solution Product Marketing Manager for Business Service Management, and Tobin Isenberg, Director of Product Management for the Business Service Management Solution, and drill down into the technical side...

Show Notes Segment 0 (00:34) FaiF Producer Dan Lynch is filling in for Karen as co-host this week. (00:43) Karen got married on the day Dan and Bradley recorded the oggcast. (01:03) Dan is also known as the co-host of Linux Outl...

The Open Audio team talks with Jos Poortvliet, the openSUSE community Manager, about the latest release of openSUSE, 11.4.

Show Notes Ironically (or perhaps appropriately), Bradley was at Samba XP with Jeremy the day this show was released. So, there he wasn't able to get show notes together in detail for this show. However, Jeremy's slides from the talk...

Show Notes Segment 0 (00:34) Bradley is still recovering from a rhinovirus which he didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during Fontana's talk ...

Show Notes Show Notes: Segment 1 (01:33) You can download a copy of Karen's slides from the talk if you'd like to follow along. Send feedback and comments on the FaiF oggcast to <oggcast@softwarefreedom.org> or <oggcast@faif.u...

Erin Quill and Ron Terry talk with David Condrey and Sophia Germanides from the team behind Storage Manager, about what it does for customers and the features and updates of its latest release, 3.0.1.

The Novell Open Audio Team sits down with Justin Taylor, Sales Enablement Guru for Novell Identity and Security Products, and Bob Bentley, Lead Product Manager for Novell Identity Management Products, to talk about Novell Identity Manager 4.

Show Notes Segment 1 (03:12) Bradley wrote a blog post about the Bionic issues that were raised. (03:44) On the old oggcast, Karen and Bradley discussed the Android/Linux system and Bionic specifically. (04:09) Karen mentioned an...

Show Notes Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen began the discussion by commenting on this blog post by Andy Updegrove about non-profit governance. (01:50) Bradley and Karen tend to agree that non-profit settings are better places to ...

Show Notes Segment 0 (00:35) Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace agreement, which was heavily covered in news and blogs. (02:50) Karen quoted directly from the § 1(l) from the Windows Phone Marketp...