Author: ProHoster

The OpenSSH Project has published a plan to deprecate DSA support.

The developers of the OpenSSH project have presented a plan to end support for keys based on the DSA algorithm. By modern standards, DSA keys do not provide the proper level of security, since they use a private key size of only 160 bits and a SHA1 hash, which in terms of security level corresponds to approximately an 80-bit symmetric key. The default use of DSA keys was discontinued in 2015, but support […]

Vulnerabilities in GitLab that allow account hijacking and execution of commands under another user

Corrective updates to the platform for organizing collaborative development have been published - GitLab 16.7.2, 16.6.4 and 16.5.6, which fix two critical vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability (CVE-2023-7028), which is assigned the maximum severity level (10 out of 10), allows you to seize someone else’s account through manipulation of the forgotten password recovery form. The vulnerability is caused by the ability to send an email with a password reset code to unverified […]

Attack on PyTorch infrastructure, compromising the repository and releases

Details of the attack on the infrastructure used in the development of the PyTorch machine learning framework were revealed, which made it possible to extract access keys sufficient to place arbitrary data in the repository with project releases on GitHub and AWS, as well as to substitute code in the main branch of the repository and add a backdoor through dependencies. PyTorch release spoofing could be used to attack large companies […]

IDC: The fourth quarter of 2023 was the worst season for the PC market since 2006

IDC analysts have already summed up preliminary results for the fourth quarter and the entire year 2023 for the PC market, noting the presence of several contradictory trends. On the one hand, in annual comparison, PC shipments fell 2,7% last quarter to 67,1 million units, marking the worst seasonal result since the fourth quarter of 2006. On the other hand, in fact, these results turned out to be [...]

At CES 2024, Mercedes-Benz showed a prototype of the electric Geländewagen with a “tank turn” function

The car, which will be designated EQG in its production version, has already been demonstrated by Mercedes-Benz in sketches and videos. The German automaker has been nurturing the idea of ​​releasing an electric version of the famous Geländewagen (G-Klasse) for a long time, and at CES 2024 the pre-production version was demonstrated in light camouflage, which did not hide the shape and size of the body. Image source: Car and DriverSource: 3dnews.ru

New article: Cosmos 2023

2023 continued the trends in space activity of recent years. There were bright premieres, successes, and failures. Let's talk about the most notable events of the past yearSource: 3dnews.ru

New article: 2023 results: PC processors

In 2023, we did not see either processors based on the AMD Zen 5 architecture, nor the new Intel desktop platform with Arrow Lake processors. But this does not mean that the year turned out to be uninteresting, and now we will prove this by recalling the main processor announcements over the past year. Source: 3dnews.ru

EKWB introduced water blocks for Intel processors with a giant LGA 7529 socket

EK Water Blocks (EKWB) announced the EK-Pro CPU WB 7529 and 7529 Rack water blocks for liquid cooling systems of future Intel Xeon processors in the LGA 7529 version, in particular, Sierra Forest (Birch Stream platform). The appearance of the latter on the commercial market is expected in the first half of this year. These processors will have up to 288 E-cores, and therefore they will need effective cooling. […]