A significant new release of the AWK programming language implementation from the GNU project has been introduced — Gawk 5.1.0. AWK was developed in the 1970s and has not undergone major changes since the mid-1980s, when the core structure of the language was defined, allowing it to maintain its original stability and simplicity over the decades. Despite its age, AWK […]
Corrective updates for the stable branches of the BIND DNS server, versions 9.11.18 and 9.16.2, as well as the experimental development branch 9.17.1, have been released. The new versions resolve a security issue related to ineffective protection against DNS rebinding attacks when functioning in the DNS server query forwarding mode (the "forwarders" block in settings). Additionally, work has been done to reduce the size of the stored memory statistics for digital […]
The ecosystem of containerization technologies is rapidly evolving and changing, which creates a lack of good working practices in this area. Nevertheless, Kubernetes and containers are being used more and more — both for modernizing legacy applications and for developing modern cloud applications. The Kubernetes aaS team from Mail.ru has gathered forecasts, advice, and best practices for market leaders from Gartner, 451.
The release of the TimescaleDB 1.7 database management system has been announced, designed for storing and processing time-series data (snapshots of parameter values at specified time intervals, where time forms a set of corresponding values). This storage format is optimal for applications such as monitoring systems, trading platforms, and metrics collection systems. Tools for integration with the […]
An experimental release of the Firefox Preview 4.3 browser for the Android platform has been published, developed under the codename Fenix as a replacement for the Firefox edition for Android. The release will soon be available in the Google Play catalog (requires Android 5 or newer). Firefox Preview uses the GeckoView engine, built on Firefox Quantum technologies, and a set of Mozilla Android libraries […]
Cloudflare has launched the site isBGPSafeYet.com, aimed at raising awareness about the issue of incorrect BGP route leaks and the potential for traffic redirection attacks using the BGP protocol. The site allows users to check the implementation of incorrect route filtering technology by providers and assess the adoption of RPKI support. Many operators remain vulnerable to BGP announcements of subnets with false routing length information, […]
A system for analyzing traffic without decrypting it. This method is simply called 'machine learning.' It turns out that if a very large volume of varied traffic is fed into a special classifier, the system can detect the actions of malicious code within encrypted traffic with a very high degree of probability. Network threats have changed and become 'smarter.' Recently, the very concept of attack and defense has evolved.
That which has been will be; and that which has been done will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Eternal wisdom, highlighted in the epigraph, is applicable to almost any industry, including one as rapidly changing as IT. It turns out that many innovations that are only now being discussed are based on older ideas.
The release of the Mir 1.8 display server has been announced, which is still being developed by Canonical despite its withdrawal from Unity shell development and Ubuntu for smartphones. Mir continues to be in demand for Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]
Roman Gilg, a contributor to the development of KDE, Wayland, Xwayland, and X Server, has introduced the KWinFT (KWin Fast Track) project, which develops a flexible and user-friendly composite window manager for Wayland and X11 based on the KWin codebase. In addition to the window manager, the project is also developing the wrapland library that provides a wrapper for libwayland for Qt/C++, continuing the development of KWayland, […]
The release of the NGINX Unit 1.17 application server has taken place, which enhances the solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). With NGINX Unit, multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously, and their launch parameters can be modified dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]
Legitimate traffic on the DDoS-Guard network has recently exceeded one hundred gigabits per second. Currently, 50% of all our traffic is generated by client web services. This encompasses tens of thousands of domains, which are very diverse and, in most cases, require a personalized approach. Below, we explain how we manage front nodes and issue SSL certificates for hundreds of thousands of sites. Configuring the front for a single site, even one that is very […]