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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

A toolkit for detecting extensions installed in Chrome has been published.

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A toolkit has been released that implements the method for detecting extensions installed in the Chrome browser. The resulting list of extensions can be used to increase the accuracy of passive identification of a specific browser instance, combined with other indirect features such as screen resolution, WebGL characteristics, installed plugin lists, and fonts. The proposed implementation checks for the installation of more than 1000 extensions. An online demonstration is suggested to test your system. Detection […]

Release of the Manjaro Linux 21.3 distribution

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The release of the Manjaro Linux 21.3 distribution, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, has taken place. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of necessary drivers. Manjaro is available in live builds with graphical environments KDE (3.5 GB), GNOME (3.3 GB), and Xfce (3.2 GB).

Release of GhostBSD 22.06.15

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The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 22.06.15 distribution, based on FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE, has been announced. It offers the MATE user environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. Both Live mode operation and installation on a hard drive are supported, utilizing its own installer ginstall, written in Python. Boot images are prepared for the x86_64 architecture (2.7 GB). In this new version, automation has been enhanced.

A new stable version of Miranda NG 0.96.1 has been released

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A new significant release of the multi-protocol instant messaging client Miranda NG 0.96.1 has been published, continuing the development of the Miranda program. Supported protocols include Facebook, ICQ, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, SkypeWeb, Steam, Tox, Twitter, and VKontakte. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The program currently supports only the Windows platform, but work has begun on implementing support for other platforms.

Tor 0.4.7.8 Update Addressing Vulnerability

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A corrective release of the Tor toolkit 0.4.7.8, used for organizing the work of the anonymous Tor network, has been announced. This new version fixes a vulnerability (CVE-2021-38385) that can be exploited for remotely initiated denial of service attacks. The potential impact of the issue on anonymity is also a concern. The problem can cause the process to terminate due to an assert-check failure when there is a discrepancy between digital signature verification results together and separately.

Release Wine 7.11 and Wine Staging 7.11

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An experimental release of the open Wine implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.11 — has been made available. Since the release of version 7.10, 34 bug reports have been closed and 285 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The driver for Android has been transitioned to use the PE (Portable Executable) file format instead of ELF. In the winegstreamer library, support for direct output mode (without intermediate buffering, zero-copy) of multimedia content has been implemented.

Release of the container management system LXC 5.0

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The company Canonical has released the toolkit for managing isolated containers, LXC 5.0, providing a runtime suitable for launching containers with a complete system environment, similar to virtual machines, as well as for running unprivileged containers of standalone applications (OCI). LXC is a low-level tool that operates at the level of individual containers. For centralized management of containers deployed in a cluster of multiple […]

Attack on systems through the WordPress plugin Ninja Forms, which has over a million installations

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A critical vulnerability has been identified in the Ninja Forms WordPress plugin, which has over a million active installations, allowing unauthorized visitors to gain full control over the website. The issue has been resolved in releases 3.0.34.2, 3.1.10, 3.2.28, 3.3.21.4, 3.4.34.2, 3.5.8.4, and 3.6.11. It has been noted that the vulnerability is already being exploited in attacks, and to urgently address the issue, the developers of the WordPress platform have initiated a forced automatic […]

Release of the clustered file system Lustre 2.15

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The release of the Lustre 2.15 cluster file system has been published, which is used in most of the largest Linux clusters containing tens of thousands of nodes. Key components of Lustre include Metadata Servers (MDS), Management Servers (MGS), Object Storage Servers (OSS), Object Storage Targets (OST, which supports operation over ext4 and ZFS), and clients. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key innovations include the implementation of the mode […]

Grafana has opened the source code for its Incident Response system OnCall

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Grafana Labs, the company behind the Grafana data visualization platform and the Prometheus monitoring system, has announced the release of the source code for the OnCall incident response system, designed to facilitate collaboration among teams for incident resolution and analysis. OnCall was previously provided as a proprietary product and was acquired by Grafana through the acquisition of Amixr Inc. last year. The project code […]

PostgreSQL 14.4 Update with Index Corruption Fix

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A corrective release of the PostgreSQL 14.4 database management system has been formed, which addresses a serious issue that, under certain circumstances, may lead to undetected data corruption in indexes when executing the 'CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY' and 'REINDEX CONCURRENTLY' commands. Certain entries may be omitted in the indexes created with these commands, resulting in missing rows when executing SELECT queries involving problematic […]

Tauri 1.0 — a competing platform to Electron for building user applications

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The release of Tauri 1.0 has been published, developing a framework for creating cross-platform user applications with graphical interfaces built using web technologies. Essentially, Tauri resembles the Electron platform but features a different architecture and lower resource consumption. The project's code is written in Rust and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The application logic is defined in JavaScript, HTML, and […]

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