Author: ProHoster

Cisco has released a free antivirus package ClamAV 0.102

Cisco has announced a major new release of its free antivirus suite, ClamAV 0.102.0. Let us recall that the project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, the company developing ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key improvements: The functionality of transparent checking of opened files (on-access scanning, checking at the time of file opening) has been moved from clamd to a separate process […]

New side-channel attack technique to recover ECDSA keys

Researchers from the University. Masaryk disclosed information about vulnerabilities in various implementations of the ECDSA/EdDSA digital signature creation algorithm, which make it possible to restore the value of a private key based on an analysis of leaks of information about individual bits that emerge when using third-party analysis methods. The vulnerabilities were codenamed Minerva. The most well-known projects that are affected by the proposed attack method are OpenJDK/OracleJDK (CVE-2019-2894) and […]

Mozilla wins net neutrality lawsuit

Mozilla has won a federal appeals court case for a significant relaxation of the FCC's net neutrality rules. The court ruled that states can individually set rules regarding net neutrality within their local laws. Similar legislative changes preserving net neutrality, for example, are pending in California. However, while repealing net neutrality […]

PostgreSQL 12 release

After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL 12 DBMS has been published. Updates for the new branch will be released over five years until November 2024. Main innovations: Added support for “generated columns”, the value of which is calculated based on an expression covering the values ​​of other columns in the same table (analogous to views, but for individual columns). The generated columns can be of two […]

Survival sim Green Hell coming to consoles in 2020

Jungle survival simulator Green Hell, which left Steam Early Access on September 5, will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The developers from Creepy Jar planned a console premiere for 2020, but did not specify the date. This became known thanks to the published development schedule of the game. From it we learned that this year the simulator will add the ability to grow […]

Firefox 69.0.2 update to fix YouTube issue on Linux

A corrective update for Firefox 69.0.2 has been published that fixes a crash that occurs on the Linux platform when the YouTube video playback speed is changed. In addition, the new release resolves issues with detecting whether parental controls are enabled in Windows 10 and fixes a crash when editing files on the Office 365 site. Source: opennet.ru

Installing the shooter Terminator: Resistance will require 32 GB

Publisher Reef Entertainment has announced the system requirements for the first-person shooter Terminator: Resistance, which will be released on November 15 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The minimum configuration is designed for gaming with medium graphics settings, 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second: operating system: Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64-bit); processor: Intel Core i3-4160 3,6 GHz […]

Announced psychological thriller Martha is Dead with a mystical plot and photorealistic environments

Studio LKA, known for the horror The Town of Light, with the support of the publishing house Wired Productions, announced its next game. It's called Martha is Dead and it's in the psychological thriller genre. The plot intertwines a detective story and mysticism, and one of the main features will be a photorealistic environment. The narrative in the project will tell about the events in Tuscany in 1944. After […]

Digital Workspace Architecture on the Citrix Cloud Platform

Introduction The article describes the capabilities and architectural features of the Citrix Cloud cloud platform and the Citrix Workspace set of services. These solutions are the central element and basis for the implementation of the digital workspace concept from Citrix. In this article, I tried to understand and formulate the cause-and-effect relationships between cloud platforms, services and Citrix subscriptions, which are described in open […]

NVIDIA and SAFMAR Introduce GeForce Now Cloud Service in Russia

The GeForce Now Alliance is expanding game streaming technology around the world. The next stage was the launch of the GeForce Now service in Russia on the website GFN.ru under the appropriate brand by the industrial and financial group SAFMAR. This means that Russian players who have been waiting to access the GeForce Now beta will finally be able to experience the benefits of the streaming service. SAFMAR and NVIDIA reported this on […]

Türkiye fines Facebook $282 for violating personal data confidentiality

Turkish authorities have fined the social network Facebook 1,6 million Turkish liras ($282) for violating the data protection law, which affected almost 000 people, Reuters writes, citing a report by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK). . On Thursday, KVKK said it had decided to fine Facebook after personal information was leaked […]

Creating a stateful skill for Alice on the serverless functions of Yandex.Cloud and Python

Let's start with the news. Yesterday Yandex.Cloud announced the launch of the serverless computing service Yandex Cloud Functions. This means: you only write the code for your service (for example, a web application or a chatbot), and the Cloud itself creates and maintains the virtual machines where it runs, and even replicates them if the load increases. You don’t need to think at all, it’s very convenient. And the payment is only for the time [...]