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Chrome Release 89

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Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 89 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next release of Chrome 90 is scheduled for April 13th. Major changes […]

Hard-to-repair GRUB2 vulnerabilities that allow bypassing UEFI Secure Boot

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Information has been disclosed about 8 vulnerabilities in the GRUB2 bootloader, which allow you to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot mechanism and run unverified code, for example, implement malware running at the bootloader or kernel level. Let us recall that in most Linux distributions, for verified booting in UEFI Secure Boot mode, a small shim layer is used, digitally signed by Microsoft. This layer verifies GRUB2 […]

OpenSSH 8.5 release

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After five months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.5, an open implementation of a client and server for working over the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, is presented. The OpenSSH developers reminded us of the upcoming decommissioning of algorithms using SHA-1 hashes due to the increased efficiency of collision attacks with a given prefix (the cost of selecting a collision is estimated at approximately $50 thousand). In one […]

Kube-dump 1.0

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The first release of a utility has taken place, with the help of which Kubernetes cluster resources are saved in the form of clean yaml manifests without unnecessary metadata. The script is useful for those who need to transfer configuration between clusters without access to the original configuration files, or for setting up backup of cluster resources. It can be launched locally as a bash script, but for those who don’t want […]

Pale Moon Browser 29.1 Release

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A release of the Pale Moon 29.1 web browser is available, which forks from the Firefox code base to provide higher performance, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are created for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classic interface organization, without […]

How was FOSDEM 2021 at Matrix

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On February 6-7, 2021, one of the largest free conferences dedicated to free software, FOSDEM, took place. The conference was usually held live in Brussels, but due to the coronavirus pandemic it had to be moved online. To implement this task, the organizers collaborated with the Element team and chose a chat based on the free Matrix protocol to build a federated communication network in real […]

Linux From Scratch 10.1 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 10.1 published

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New editions of the Linux From Scratch 10.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 10.1 (BLFS) manuals, as well as the LFS and BLFS editions with the systemd system manager, have been introduced. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source code for the required software. Beyond Linux From Scratch augments LFS instructions with assembly information […]

The second edition of the book "Programming: an introduction to the profession" is available

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Andrey Stolyarov published the second edition of the book “Programming: An Introduction to the Profession” in the public domain. The book is also available in paper version, printed by MAX Press. The publication includes three volumes: “The Basics of Programming” (theoretical introduction, history of programming, Pascal language, assembly language). “Systems and networks” (C language, operating systems, OS kernel, creating network applications and parallel programming). “Paradigms” (languages ​​C++, […]

Release of Devuan Beowulf 3.1.0

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Today, i.e. 2021-02-15, quietly and unnoticed, the updated version of Devuan 3.1.0 Beowulf was released. Devuan 3.1 is an interim release that continues the development of the Devuan 3.x branch, built on the Debian 10 “Buster” package base. Live assemblies and installation iso images for AMD64 and i386 architectures have been prepared for download. Builds for ARM (armel, armhf and arm64) and images for virtual machines for […]

Dangerous vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration management system

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The new releases of the centralized configuration management system SaltStack 3002.5, 3001.6 and 3000.8 have fixed a vulnerability (CVE-2020-28243) that allows an unprivileged local user of the host to escalate their privileges in the system. The problem is caused by a bug in the salt-minion handler used to receive commands from the central server. The vulnerability was discovered in November, but has only now been fixed. When performing the “restartcheck” operation, it is possible to substitute [...]

Analysis of the incident with the loss of control over the perl.com domain has been published

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Brian Foy, founder of the Perl Mongers organization, published a detailed analysis of the incident, as a result of which the perl.com domain was taken over by unauthorized persons. The seizure of the domain did not affect the server infrastructure of the project and was accomplished at the level of changing ownership and changing the parameters of the DNS servers at the registrar. It is alleged that the computers responsible for the domain were also not compromised and the attackers used […]

Fedora and Gentoo maintainers drop packages from Telegram Desktop

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The maintainer of packages with Telegram Desktop for Fedora and RPM Fusion announced the removal of packages from the repositories. The day before, the support for Telegram Desktop was also announced by the maintainer of the Gentoo packages. In both cases, they stated their readiness to return packages to the repositories if a new maintainer is found for them, ready to take charge of maintenance. […]

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