Author: ProHoster

Patched Exim - patch again. Fresh Remote Command Execution in Exim 4.92 in one request

More recently, at the beginning of summer, there were massive calls to update Exim to version 4.92 due to the CVE-2019-10149 vulnerability (Urgently update Exim to 4.92 - there is an active infection / Sudo Null IT News). And recently it turned out that the Sustes malware decided to take advantage of this vulnerability. Now all those who urgently updated can “rejoice” again: on July 21, 2019, researcher Zerons discovered a critical vulnerability […]

What I learned from testing 200 lines of infrastructure code

The IaC (Infrastructure as Code) approach consists not only of the code that is stored in the repository, but also of the people and processes that surround this code. Is it possible to reuse approaches from software development to infrastructure management and description? It would be a good idea to keep this idea in mind while you read the article. English version This is a transcript of my speech at DevopsConf […]

The author of vkd3d died

CodeWeavers, which sponsors the development of Wine, announced the death of its employee, Józef Kucia, the author of the vkd3d project and one of the key developers of Wine, who also took part in the development of the Mesa and Debian projects. Josef made over 2500 changes to Wine and implemented most of the code related to Direct3D support. Source: linux.org.ru

Manuscripts do not burn: the secret to the durability of the Dead Sea Scrolls dating back to 250 BC

In modern museums and archives, ancient texts, manuscripts and books are stored in certain conditions, which allows them to preserve their original appearance for future generations. The most striking representative of incorruptible manuscripts are considered to be the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran manuscripts), first found back in 1947 and dating back to 408 BC. e. Some of the scrolls survive only in fragments, but there are […]

Additions

Additions to the StarOffice documentation page FAQ from Leon Kanter Cheat sheet for the EMACS editor “A few simple Unix commands” Source: linux.org.ru

iOS Creative: Drawing

Hello! In the last article I reviewed the capabilities of iOS for composing music, and today’s topic is drawing. I'll tell you about Apple Pencil and other applications for working with raster and vector graphics, pixel art and other types of drawing. We will talk about applications for iPad, but some of them are also available for iPhone. iPad has become interesting [...]

The author of vkd3d and one of the key developers of Wine died

CodeWeavers, which sponsors the development of Wine, announced the death of its employee, Józef Kucia, the author of the vkd3d project (a Direct3D 12 implementation on top of the Vulkan API) and one of the key Wine developers, who also took part in the development of the Mesa and Debian projects. Josef made over 2500 changes to Wine and implemented most of the […]

GNOME 3.34 released

Today, September 12, 2019, after almost 6 months of development, the latest version of the user desktop environment - GNOME 3.34 - was released. It added about 26 thousand changes, such as: “Visual” updates for a number of applications, including the “desktop” itself - for example, the settings for selecting the desktop background have become simpler, making it easier to change the standard wallpaper […]

Release of RawTherapee 5.7 photo processing software

RawTherapee 5.7 has been released, providing tools for editing photos and converting images in RAW format. The program supports a large number of RAW file formats, including cameras with Foveon- and X-Trans sensors, and can also work with the Adobe DNG standard and with JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats (up to 32 bits per channel). The project code is written in […]

Version 1.3 of the Mumble voice communication platform has been released

About ten years after the last release, the next major version of the voice communication platform Mumble 1.3 was released. It is mainly focused on creating voice chats between players in online games and is designed to reduce delays and ensure high quality voice transmission. The platform is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. The platform consists of two modules - a client […]

Implementation of DDIO in Intel chips allows a network attack to detect keystrokes in an SSH session

A group of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and ETH Zurich have developed a network attack technique called NetCAT (Network Cache ATtack), which allows, using side-channel data analysis methods, to remotely determine the keys pressed by a user while working in an SSH session. The problem only appears on servers that use RDMA (Remote direct memory access) and DDIO technologies […]