Corrective releases of the Samba package 4.14.2, 4.13.7 and 4.12.14 have been prepared, in which two vulnerabilities are eliminated: CVE-2020-27840 - a buffer overflow that occurs when processing specially designed DN (Distinguished Name) names. An anonymous attacker can crash a Samba-based AD DC LDAP server by sending a specially crafted bind request. Since during the attack it is possible to control the overwriting area, […]
The release of the spam filtering platform is available - SpamAssassin 3.4.5. SpamAssassin implements an integrated approach to deciding whether to block: the message is subjected to a number of checks (contextual analysis, DNSBL black and white lists, trained Bayesian classifiers, signature checking, sender authentication using SPF and DKIM, etc.). After evaluating the message using different methods, a certain weight coefficient is accumulated. If the calculated […]
A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 4.17 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in the user data saving mode between launches, […]
The SPO Foundation announced the results of a meeting of the Board of Directors held on Wednesday, at which it was decided to make changes to the processes associated with the management of the Foundation and the admission of new members to the Board of Directors. It was decided to introduce a transparent process for identifying candidates and appointing new members of the board of directors who are worthy and capable of following the mission of the Open Source Foundation. Third party […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 40 desktop environment is presented. Compared to the previous release, more than 24 thousand changes were made, in the implementation of which 822 developers took part. To quickly evaluate the capabilities of GNOME 40, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared as part of the GNOME OS initiative are offered. GNOME 40 is also already included […]
On March 27-28, 2021, an online conference of open source software developers “Adminka” will be held, to which developers and enthusiasts of Open Source projects, users, popularizers of Open Source ideas, lawyers, IT and data activists, journalists and scientists are invited. Starts at 11:00 Moscow time. Participation is free, pre-registration is required. The purpose of the online conference: to popularize Open Source development and support Open Source […]
Those who disagreed with the attempt to remove Stallman from all posts published a response open letter from Stallman’s supporters and opened a collection of signatures in support of Stallman (to subscribe, you need to send a pull request). Actions against Stallman are interpreted as attacks on expressing personal opinions, distorting the meaning of what was said and exerting social pressure on the community. For historical reasons, Stallman paid more attention to philosophical issues and […]
The Manjaro Linux 21.0 distribution, built on Arch Linux and aimed at novice users, has been released. The distribution is notable for the presence of a simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatically detecting hardware and installing the drivers necessary for its operation. Manjaro comes in live builds with KDE (2.7 GB), GNOME (2.6 GB) and Xfce (2.4 GB) desktop environments. At […]
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which develops Internet protocols and architecture, has published RFC 8996, officially deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1. The TLS 1.0 specification was published in January 1999. Seven years later, the TLS 1.1 update was released with security improvements related to the generation of initialization vectors and padding. By […]
Google has announced that in Chrome 90, scheduled for release on April 13, it will make websites open over HTTPS by default when you type hostnames in the address bar. For example, when you enter the host example.com, the site https://example.com will be opened by default, and if problems arise when opening, it will be rolled back to http://example.com. Previously, this opportunity was already [...]
The return of Richard Stallman to the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation has caused a negative reaction from some organizations and developers. In particular, the human rights organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), whose director recently won an award for his contribution to the development of free software, announced the severance of all relations with the Free Software Foundation and the curtailment of any activities intersecting with this organization, […]
Nokia, which in 2015 acquired Alcatel-Lucent, which owned the Bell Labs research center, announced the transfer of all intellectual property related to the Plan 9 project to the non-profit organization Plan 9 Foundation, which will oversee the further development of Plan 9. At the same time, the publication of the Plan9 code was announced under the MIT Permissive License in addition to the Lucent Public License and […]
