Google announced the removal from the Google Play catalog of about 600 applications that violated the rules for displaying advertising. Problematic programs are also blocked from accessing the advertising services Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager. The removal mainly affected programs that display advertisements unexpectedly for the user, in places that interfere with work, and at times when the user is not working with […]
GitHub has published an annual report that reflects notifications of intellectual property violations and publication of illegal content received in 2019. In accordance with the current US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act), in 2019 GitHub received 1762 blocking requests and 37 rebuttals from repository owners. For comparison, […]
A significant release of the PipeWire 0.3.0 project has been published, developing a new generation multimedia server to replace PulseAudio. PipeWire extends PulseAudio's capabilities with video stream processing, low-latency audio processing, and a new security model for device- and stream-level access control. The project is supported in GNOME and is already actively used in Fedora Linux […]
With the pwfeedback option enabled in sudo settings, an attacker can cause a buffer overflow and escalate their privileges on the system. This option enables the visual display of entered password characters as a * symbol. On most distributions it is disabled by default. However, on Linux Mint and Elementary OS it is included in /etc/sudoers. To exploit a vulnerability, an attacker does not have to be in [...]
The use of Gpg4KDE and GPG4win for Official Use Only (VS-NfD) message encryption (which corresponds to EU RESTRICTED and NATO RESTRICTED) is approved by the German Federal Office for National Security. You can now use KMail to forward Kleopatra encrypted messages at the official level. Source Source: linux.org.ru
Greetings! Welcome to lesson nine of the Fortinet Getting Started course. In the last lesson, we looked at the basic mechanisms for controlling user access to various resources. Now we have another task - we need to analyze the behavior of users on the network, and also configure the receipt of data that can help in the investigation of various security incidents. Therefore, in this lesson we will look at the mechanism [...]
The Upgrade Process for Your Kubernetes Cluster At some point when using a Kubernetes cluster, there is a need to upgrade running nodes. This may include package updates, kernel updates, or deployment of new virtual machine images. In Kubernetes terminology this is called "Voluntary Disruption". This post is part of a 4-post series: This post. Correct shutdown of pods in […]
Not so long ago, on various other resources and in my blog, I talked about the fact that ZigBee is dead and it’s time to bury the flight attendant. In order to put a good face on a bad game with Thread working on top of IPv6 and 6LowPan, Bluetooth (LE) that is more suitable for this is sufficient. But I'll tell you about this some other time. […]
Facebook and Sony announced Thursday they will skip the GDC 2020 game developer conference in San Francisco next month due to ongoing concerns about the potential for the coronavirus outbreak to spread further. Facebook typically uses the annual GDC conference to announce its Oculus virtual reality division and other new games. A company representative said that Facebook will conduct all […]
The Epic Games Store has launched a new game giveaway promotion. This time, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and Faeria are now free in the store. Anyone can add these projects to their library until February 27. After this, the distribution of the adventure game InnerSpace will begin, in which users are invited to control the light and explore the world around them in order to find out all the secrets of the Lost […]
Australian studio Mastfire has released the final version of the multiplayer action game Blackwake, dedicated to naval battles. The game spent three years in Steam Early Access and during this time it received a lot of positive reviews. With the release of version 1.0, the price of the game was permanently reduced to $10 (259 rubles in the Russian segment of Steam, excluding the current discount). The developers have also doubled the experience gained for [...]
The Yandex search engine, using machine learning technologies, has learned to predict the next user queries. Now the search offers useful queries that the user may not have thought about yet. Predictive queries differ from other search engine features in that they do not suggest the most popular queries based on statistics, but recommend those options that a person is most likely to click on. […]
