Nintendo sent a request to GitHub to block the Lockpick and Lockpick_RCM repositories, as well as about 80 forks of them. The claim is submitted under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The projects are accused of violating Nintendo's intellectual property and bypassing the protection technologies used in the Nintendo Switch consoles. The application is currently on […]
During the attack on MSI's information systems, the attackers managed to download more than 500 GB of the company's internal data, which contains, among other things, the source codes of firmware and related tools for assembling them. The perpetrators demanded $4 million for non-disclosure, but MSI refused and some of the data was made public. Among the published data were transmitted […]
The seL4 open microkernel project has received the ACM Software System Award, an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the most respected international organization in the field of computer systems. The award is given for achievements in the field of mathematical proof of operation, which indicates full compliance with specifications given in a formal language and recognizes readiness for use in mission-critical applications. seL4 project […]
The release of the portable edition of the OpenBGPD 8.0 routing package, developed by the developers of the OpenBSD project and adapted for use in FreeBSD and Linux (alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu support is announced). To ensure portability, parts of the code from the OpenNTPD, OpenSSH and LibreSSL projects were used. The project supports most of the BGP 4 specifications and complies with the requirements of RFC8212, but does not try to embrace the […]
AlaSQL 4.0 is available for use in browser-based web applications, web-based mobile applications, or server-side handlers based on the Node.js platform. The DBMS is designed as a JavaScript library and allows you to use the SQL language. It supports storing data in traditional relational tables or in the form of nested JSON structures that do not require a hard definition of a storage schema. For […]
The release of the SFTPGo 2.5.0 server has been published, which allows you to organize remote access to files using the SFTP, SCP / SSH, Rsync, HTTP and WebDav protocols, as well as to provide access to Git repositories using the SSH protocol. Data can be served both from the local file system and from external storage compatible with Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. Maybe […]
A new web browser, Pulse Browser, is available for testing, built on the Firefox codebase and experimenting with ideas to improve usability and build a minimalistic interface. Builds are generated for Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms. The code is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. The browser is notable for cleaning the code from components related to the collection and sending of telemetry, and replacing some […]
Administrators of the Packagist package repository disclosed details of an attack that took control of the accounts of the maintainers of 14 PHP libraries, including such popular packages as instantiator (526 million installations in total, 8 million installations per month, 323 dependent packages), sql-formatter (94 million installations in total, 800 thousand per month, 109 dependent packages), doctrine-cache-bundle (73 million […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 113 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which is the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, always turning on Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and passing […]
With the release of Chrome 117, scheduled for September 12, Google plans to modernize the browser interface and replace the secure data indicator shown in the address bar in the form of a padlock with a neutral “settings” icon that does not evoke security associations. Connections established without encryption will continue to display the "not secure" indicator. The change emphasizes that security is now the default state, […]
OBS Studio 29.1, the streaming, compositing and video recording suite, is now available. The code is written in C/C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are generated for Linux, Windows and macOS. The development goal of OBS Studio was to create a portable version of the Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Classic) application that is not tied to the Windows platform, supports OpenGL and is extensible through plugins. […]
An experimental branch of the APT 2.7 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been released, on the basis of which, after stabilization, a stable release 2.8 will be prepared, which will be integrated into Debian Testing and will be included in the Debian 13 release, and will also be added to the Ubuntu package base. In addition to Debian and its derivative distributions, the APT-RPM fork is also used in […]
