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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.

Release of the application isolation system Firejail 0.9.78

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The release of Firejail 0.9.78 has been published, developing a system for the isolated execution of graphical, console, and server applications, which minimizes the risk of compromising the main system when running untrusted or potentially vulnerable programs. The program is written in C, is distributed under the GPLv2 license, and can run on any Linux distribution with a kernel version higher than 3.0. Ready packages of Firejail have been prepared […]

Release of Box64 0.4.0, an emulator for running x86 games on ARM64, RISC-V, and Loongarch64 systems

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The release of the Box64 0.4.0 emulator, designed to run Linux programs compiled for the x86_64 architecture on hardware with ARM64, RISC-V, and Loongarch64 processors, has been published. The project focuses heavily on enabling the launch of gaming applications and provides the ability to run Windows builds through Wine and Proton. The project's source code is written in C and released under the MIT license. A key feature of the project is the use of hybrid […]

A hardcoded access token has been identified in RustFS

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In the RustFS project, which develops an S3-compatible distributed object storage system written in Rust, a vulnerability (CVE-2025-68926) has been discovered, resembling a backdoor. The issue is caused by a hardcoded access token in the code that allows connection to a network service via the gRPC protocol by setting the "authorization" header to "rustfs rpc". The token was present in both the server and client code. The issue has been assigned a critical severity level […]

Several methods for bypassing FreeBSD jail isolation have been demonstrated

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At the 39C3 conference (Chaos Communication Congress), a report was presented with the results of research on the security of the FreeBSD jail mechanism. The authors of the study managed to escape the Jail and compromise the host, provided that the attacker has root privileges inside the Jail. Code for 5 prototype exploits that utilize vulnerabilities in ipfilter, dummynet, carp, and ipfw to escape from the Jail has been published on GitHub, revealing […]

Update of the MenuetOS 1.70 operating system, written in assembly

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The release of the MenuetOS 1.70 operating system has been published, with kernel development being conducted entirely in assembly. MenuetOS builds are prepared for 64-bit x86 systems and can be run under QEMU. The system build takes up 1.4 MB and is provided as a floppy disk image and an ISO image for burning to CD (bootable in VirtualBox). The source code for the Menuet64 project is released under a restrictive […]

Release of the Icecast 2.5 streaming server

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The release of Icecast 2.5.0 has been published, a server for organizing audio and video streaming over the network. It supports broadcasting using formats like Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Opus, FLAC, WebM (VP8/VP9), as well as proprietary codecs like MP4 (H.264, MPEG4), M4A, NSV, AAC, and MP3. The code is written in C language and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The platform was created in […]

Fifth preliminary release of the Pidgin 3.0 messenger

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The fifth experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.94) instant messaging client has been introduced. This release is marked as having an alpha-preliminary quality level, not intended for everyday use. The builds are prepared in Flatpak format and hosted in the beta repository on Flathub. The Pidgin 3 branch has been in development since 2011, following three years of discussion at the concept and ideas level. […]

Release of Snoop 1.4.3, an OSINT tool for collecting user information from open sources

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The release of the Snoop 1.4.3 project has been published, developing a forensic OSINT tool that searches for user accounts in public data (open-source intelligence). The program analyzes various websites, forums, and social networks for the presence of a requested username, allowing you to determine which sites have a user with the specified nickname. The project is based on research work in the field of scraping public data […]

Release of the Devuan 6.1 distribution, a fork of Debian without systemd.

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The release of Devuan 6.1 'Excalibur', a fork of Debian GNU/Linux, has been announced, delivered without the system manager systemd. Live builds are prepared with the Xfce desktop environment (1.7 GB and 879 MB) and installation iso images (4.2 GB, 593 MB) for the amd64 architecture. Packages are built for i386, amd64, armel, armhf, arm64, ppc64el, and riscv64 architectures. Images for ARM systems and […]

Release of window manager IceWM 4.0.0

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The lightweight window manager IceWM 4.0.0 is now available. IceWM provides full management through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, taskbars, and application menus; it supports tabbed window grouping. The window manager is configured through a simple configuration file, and theme support is available. It supports window grouping in the form of tabs. Built-in applets are available for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic. […]

Release of shadow-utils 4.19, marking the deprecation of the password expiration limitation mechanism.

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The shadow-utils toolkit 4.19.0 is now available, including utilities for managing user and group credentials, as well as storing passwords in a separate file /etc/shadow, accessible only to the root user and the shadow group. Included utilities are useradd, userdel, usermod, pwconv, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, pwunconv, pwck, lastlog, su, and login. The toolkit code is written in C and is distributed […]

The release of the ncurses 6.6 console library.

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After a year and a half of development, the release of the ncurses library 6.6 has been presented, designed for creating cross-platform interactive console user interfaces and supporting emulation of the curses API from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4). The ncurses 6.6 release is source-level compatible with the ncurses 5.x and 6.x branches but expands the ABI. Notable applications built using ncurses include […]

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