Users of the Reddit forum reported that Electronic Arts entered the Guinness Book of Records 2020. The reason was an anti-record: the publisher's post received the largest number of downvotes on Reddit - 683 thousand. The cause of the largest community outrage in Reddit history was the monetization system of Star Wars: Battlefront II. In a message, an EA employee explained to one of the fans the reasons why […]
A test release of GNU Wget 2, a completely redesigned program for automating the recursive downloading of GNU Wget content, is now available. GNU Wget 2 was designed and rewritten from scratch and is notable for moving the basic functionality of the web client into the libwget library, which can be used separately in applications. The utility is licensed under GPLv3+, and the library is licensed under LGPLv3+. Wget 2 has been upgraded to a multi-threaded architecture, [...]
Publisher Focus Home Interactive, together with developers from the Spiders studio, published a release trailer for the role-playing game Greedfall, and also announced the system requirements. It is not specified what specific graphics settings the configurations below are designed for. The minimum required hardware is as follows: operating system: 64-bit Windows 7, 8 or 10; processor: Intel Core i5-3450 3,1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 X6 3,5 […]
The most common technology for tracking users on Internet resources today is Cookies. It is “cookies” that are used on all large and small websites, allowing them to remember visitors, show them targeted advertising, and so on. But the other day a build of the Firefox 69 browser from Mozilla was released, which by default increased security and blocked the ability to track users. And that's why […]
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the new Hearthstone expansion, Tombs of Terror, will be released on September 17th. On September 17, the continuation of the events of “The Heist of Dalaran” in the first chapter of “Tombs of Terror” starts for one player as part of the “Saviors of Uldum” storyline. Players can already pre-order the Premium Adventure Pack for RUB 1099 and receive bonus rewards. In "Tombs of Terror" […]
Apple responded to Google's recent announcement that malicious sites could exploit vulnerabilities in different versions of the iOS platform to hack iPhones to steal sensitive data, including text messages, photos and other content. Apple said in a statement that the attacks were carried out through websites associated with Uyghurs, an ethnic minority of Muslims who […]
Lilocked is a Linux-oriented malware that encrypts files on your hard drive with a subsequent ransom demand (ransomware). According to ZDNet, the first reports of the malware appeared in mid-July, and since then more than 6700 servers have been affected. Lilocked encrypts HTML, SHTML, JS, CSS, PHP, INI files and various image formats while leaving system files untouched. Encrypted files receive […]
A beta version of wget2, a wget spider rewritten from scratch, has been released. Main differences: HTTP2 is supported. The functionality was moved to the libwget library (LGPL3+). The interface has not yet been stabilized. Multithreading. Acceleration due to HTTP and HTTP2 compression, parallel connections and If-Modified-Since in the HTTP header. Plugins. FTP is not supported. Judging by the manual, the command line interface supports all the keys of the latest version of Wget 1 […]
On September 7, the Debian Project simultaneously released updates to the current stable release of Debian "buster" 10.1 and the previous stable release of Debian "stretch" 9.10. Debian "buster" has updated more than 150 programs, including the Linux kernel to version 4.19.67, and fixed bugs in gnupg2, systemd, webkitgtk, cups, openldap, openssh, pulseaudio, unzip and many others. IN […]
TrendMicro has published a vulnerability (no CVE assigned) in the v4l2 driver that allows an unprivileged local user to execute code in the context of the Linux kernel. Information about the vulnerability is provided in the context of the Android platform, without detailing whether this problem is specific to the Android kernel or whether it also occurs in the regular Linux kernel. Exploitation of the vulnerability requires local access by the attacker [...]
A corrective release of Exim 4.92.2 has been published to fix a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-15846), which in the default configuration can lead to remote code execution by an attacker with root rights. The problem only appears when TLS support is enabled and is exploited by passing a specially designed client certificate or modified value to SNI. The vulnerability was identified by Qualys. The problem is present in the special character escaping handler [...]
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