Facebook’s development aims at a more rapid and selective termination of processes consuming excessive memory before the Linux kernel’s OOM handler is triggered. The oomd code is written in C++ and is licensed under GPLv2. Oomd is already in use in Facebook's infrastructure and has proven effective under industrial loads (specifically, the project has nearly eliminated the occurrence of […]
Sisvel has announced the creation of a patent pool covering technologies that intersect with the open coding formats AV1 and VP9. Sisvel specializes in managing intellectual property, collecting royalties, and filing patent lawsuits (a patent troll, which led to the temporary suspension of OpenMoko builds). Although AV1 and VP9 formats do not require patent royalties, […]
The developers of the Matrix decentralized messaging platform announced an emergency shutdown of the Matrix.org and Riot.im (the main Matrix client) servers due to a hack of the project's infrastructure. The first shutdown occurred last night, after which the servers were restored, and the applications were recompiled from the reference source code. But just a few minutes ago, the servers were compromised for the second time. The attackers posted on the main […]
After two months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 242 has been presented. Notable new features include support for L2TP tunnels, the ability to control the behavior of systemd-logind during restarts via environment variables, support for extended boot partitions XBOOTLDR for mounting /boot, the capability to boot with the root partition in overlayfs, and a large number of new settings for various unit types. Key changes: In systemd-networkd […]
Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4 is now available, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The size of the installation ISO image is 640 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully prepared virtual system […]
Google has suggested that browser developers implement a practice of blocking the download of dangerous file types when the referring page is opened over HTTPS, but the download is initiated without encryption over HTTP. The issue is that during the download, there is no security indication; the file simply downloads in the background. When such a download is initiated from a page opened over HTTP, […]
On April 10, 2019, GitHub, without prior notice, deleted the repository of the popular utility GoodByeDPI, designed to bypass government blocking (censorship) of websites on the Internet. What is DPI, how is it related to blocking, and why fight it (according to the author): Providers in the Russian Federation predominantly use deep packet inspection (DPI) systems to block websites […]
This is the second review in a series of articles examining open-source programs for working with the RDP protocol. In it, we will look at the rdesktop client and the xrdp server. PVS-Studio was used as a tool for detecting errors. This is a static code analyzer for C, C++, C#, and Java available on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. The article features only those […]
One of the main problems when working with Microsoft Office files in Google Docs will soon be resolved. The search giant announced the addition of built-in support for native Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats to its platform. Previously, editing data, collaborating, commenting, and more required converting documents to Google format, although they could be viewed directly. Now this will be […]
On March 31, 2019, five years after the previous release, a new version of the Dylan language compiler was released — Open Dylan 2019.1. Dylan is a dynamic programming language that implements the ideas of Common Lisp and CLOS in a more familiar syntax without parentheses. The main features in this version include: stabilization of the LLVM backend for i386 and x86_64 architectures on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS; the compiler has been added […]
Mathy Vanhoef, the author of the KRACK attack on wireless networks using WPA2, and Eyal Ronen, co-author of several attacks on TLS, revealed details about six vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-9494 — CVE-2019-9499) in the WPA3 wireless network protection technology that allow for the recreation of the connection password and unauthorized access to a wireless network without knowledge of the password. The vulnerabilities are grouped under the codename Dragonblood […]
A corrective release of Firefox 66.0.3 has been prepared, which updates the search plugin for Baidu and fixes four issues: Performance problems with some games written using HTML5 technologies (for example, games from the pogo.com service, which uses javascript-obfuscator to protect code from parsing) have been resolved; Issues with event handling when pressing keys in IBM Cloud and Microsoft Cloud applications (for example, […