Author: ProHoster

Interception of encrypted traffic jabber.ru and xmpp.ru recorded

The administrator of the Jabber server jabber.ru (xmpp.ru) identified an attack to decrypt user traffic (MITM), carried out over a period of 90 days to 6 months in the networks of German hosting providers Hetzner and Linode, which host the project server and auxiliary VPS. environment. The attack is organized by redirecting traffic to a transit node that replaces the TLS certificate for XMPP connections encrypted using the STARTTLS extension. The attack was noticed […]

Rating of weak passwords used by administrators

Security researchers from Outpost24 have published the results of an analysis of the strength of passwords used by IT system administrators. The study examined accounts present in the database of the Threat Compass service, which collects information about password leaks that occurred as a result of malware activity and hacks. In total, we managed to assemble a collection of more than 1.8 million passwords recovered from hashes associated with administration interfaces […]

SoftBank tested 5G communications in Rwanda based on the stratospheric HAPS platform

SoftBank has tested technology in Rwanda that allows it to provide 5G communications to smartphone users without classic base stations. Solar-powered stratospheric drones (HAPS) were deployed, the company said. The project was implemented jointly with local authorities and started on September 24, 2023. The companies successfully tested the operation of 5G equipment in the stratosphere, communication equipment was launched to an altitude of up to 16,9 km, […]

25 years Linux.org.ru

25 years ago, in October 1998, the Linux.org.ru domain was registered. Please write in the comments what you would like to change on the site, what is missing and what functions should be further developed. Ideas for development are also interesting, as are little things that I would like to change, for example, interfering usability problems and bugs. In addition to the traditional survey, I would like to additionally note [...]

Geany 2.0 IDE available

The release of the Geany 2.0 project has been published, developing a compact and fast code editing environment that uses a minimum number of dependencies and is not tied to the features of individual user environments, such as KDE or GNOME. Building Geany requires only the GTK library and its dependencies (Pango, Glib and ATK). The project code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license and written in C […]

After Tesla's quarterly report, shares of the company and Chinese competitors fell in price

At Tesla's quarterly event, the head of the automaker, Elon Musk, expressed serious concern about the state of affairs in the global economy, recalling the pre-bankruptcy state of American auto giants in 2009 and comparing his own company to a large ship that could sink under certain unfavorable conditions. This sentiment has rubbed off on investors, causing Tesla shares to fall in price by nearly […]

Toyota and Lexus electric vehicles for the North American market will also use NACS charging connectors promoted by Tesla

While remaining the world's largest automaker, Toyota has so far been slow to expand its range of electric vehicles, clinging with all its might to the hybrids it has spent huge sums of money developing for decades. The Japanese auto giant said this week that from 2025, North American-market Toyota and Lexus electric vehicles will be equipped with NACS charging ports, promoted by Tesla and […]

A mysterious fast radio burst from the depths of the Universe has gone beyond known theories

An international team of researchers has discovered a fast radio burst that cannot be explained by current theories. Such signals were first registered in 2007 and are still awaiting an explanation. Some even considered them signals from aliens, but this theory did not prevail. A new radio burst, unusual in strength and distance, poses a new mystery, and solving it means advancing knowledge […]

geany 2.0

On October 19, 2023, the Geany code editor was released. Among the new things: added an experimental ability to assemble using Meson; Minimum supported GTK version increased to 3.24; The developers have fixed several bugs and updated translations. Source: linux.org.ru

Release of the communication platform Asterisk 21

After a year of development, a new stable branch of the open communication platform Asterisk 21 was released, used for deploying software PBXs, voice communication systems, VoIP gateways, organizing IVR systems (voice menu), voice mail, telephone conferences and call centers. The source code of the project is available under the GPLv2 license. Asterisk 21 is classified as a regular support release, with updates being released within two […]