The developers of the KDE Neon project, which creates Live builds with current versions of KDE programs and components, have published a stable build based on the LTS release of Ubuntu 20.04. Several options for assembling KDE Neon are offered: User Edition based on the latest stable releases of KDE, Developer Edition Git Stable based on code from the beta and stable branches of the KDE Git repository and Developer Edition […]
At the last Black Hat conference, a report was presented on security problems in satellite Internet access systems. The author of the report, using an inexpensive DVB receiver, demonstrated the possibility of intercepting Internet traffic transmitted via satellite communication channels. The client can connect to the satellite provider via asymmetric or symmetric channels. In the case of an asymmetric channel, outgoing traffic from the client is sent through a terrestrial […]
Today, August 10, is a free day at the Open Source Tech Conference Online (registration required). Schedule: 17.15 - 17.55 Vladimir Rubanov / Russia. Moscow / CTO for software development / Huawei R&D Russia Open-source and world evolution (rus) 18.00 - 18.40 Alexander Komakhin / Russia. Moscow / Senior Development Engineer / Open Source Mobile Platform […]
When one day the boss raises the question: "Why do some people have remote access to the work computer, without obtaining additional permissions for use?", The task arises to "cover up" the loophole. There are plenty of remote control applications over the network: Chrome remote desktop, AmmyAdmin, LiteManager, TeamViewer, Anyplace Control, etc. If Chrome remote desktop has an official […]
Since 2010, the law “On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies” came into force, which obligated all these bodies to have their own website, and not a simple one, but an official one. I can illustrate the degree of readiness of officials at that time to implement the law with the following episode: in the summer of 2009, I had a chance to speak before a […]
Hi all! We continue to digest news and other materials about free and open source software and a bit about hardware. All the most important things about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. Who succeeded Stallman, expert review of Russian GNU/Linux distribution Astra Linux, SPI donation report for Debian and other projects, creation of The Open Source Security […]
A major PS4 exclusive, Horizon Zero Dawn, made its way to PC yesterday, with the teams at Guerrilla Games and Virtuos actively collaborating with AMD to add a number of cutting-edge technologies to the game. Also, unlike Death Stranding on the same Decima engine from Guerrilla Games, it does not use Denuvo, but is limited by Steam protection. According to AMD, Horizon […]
Last month, Young Horses (creators of Octodad: Dadliest Catch) announced the adventure Bugsnax, which will be released on PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. It is a game about the mysterious Bugsnex and the disappearance of explorer Elizabeth Megafig on Snack Island. And recently the developers presented a new trailer. In Bugsnax, you play as a journalist who has been invited to Snack Island by Elizabeth to report […]
Google, the owner of the popular video service YouTube, has decided to stop sending email notifications about new videos and live broadcasts from channels to which users are subscribed. The reason for this decision lies in the fact that the notifications sent by YouTube are opened by a minimum number of service users. A message posted on Google's support site states that […]
A new release of the VeraCrypt 1.24-Update7 project has been published, developing a fork of the TrueCrypt disk partition encryption system, which has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and eliminating problems identified during the audit of TrueCrypt source codes. At the same time, VeraCrypt provides a compatibility mode with [...]
Ghostscript, a suite of tools for processing, converting, and generating PostScript and PDF documents, has a vulnerability (CVE-2020-15900) that could allow files to be modified and arbitrary commands to be executed when specially formatted PostScript documents are opened. Using the non-standard PostScript operator rsearch in a document allows you to cause an overflow of the uint32_t type when calculating the size, overwrite memory areas outside the allocated […]
Nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis for the Firefox 81 release, include a new implementation of the print preview interface. The new preview interface is notable for opening in the current tab and replacing the existing content (the old preview interface led to the opening of a new window), i.e. works in a similar way to reader mode. Tools for customizing page format and output options […]
