Author: ProHoster

Remotely exploited vulnerability in qmail mail server

Security researchers from Qualys have shown the possibility of exploiting a vulnerability in the qmail mail server, known since 2005 (CVE-2005-1513), but remaining unfixed, since the author of qmail argued that it was unrealistic to create a working exploit that could be used to attack systems in the default configuration. Qualys managed to prepare an exploit that refutes this assumption and allows […]

Microsoft introduced the MAUI framework, creating a naming conflict with the Maui and Maui Linux projects

Microsoft encountered a name conflict for the second time when promoting its new open source products without first checking the existence of existing projects with the same names. If last time the conflict was caused by the intersection of the names “GVFS” (Git Virtual File System and GNOME Virtual File System), then this time problems arose around the name MAUI. Microsoft introduced […]

Release of Electron 9.0.0, platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine

The release of the Electron 9.0.0 platform has been prepared, which provides a self-sufficient framework for developing multi-platform user applications, using Chromium, V8 and Node.js components as a basis. The significant change in version number is due to an update to the Chromium 83 codebase, the Node.js 12.14 platform and the V8 8.3 JavaScript engine. In the new release: The capabilities related to spell checking have been expanded and an API has been added for […]

FlightGear 2020.1

Version 2020.1 of the free flight simulator FlightGear has been released. The flight simulator has been developed since 1997 and is used both by fans of flight simulators and for educational and scientific purposes in universities or as interactive exhibitions in various museums. Improvements after version 2019.1: The Compositor rendering framework has been moved to a separate binary. Improved support for aircraft carriers. Improved flight dynamics models JSBSim and […]

Kubernetes Best Practices. Creating Small Containers

The first step in deploying to Kubernetes is hosting your application in a container. In this series, we'll look at how you can create a small, secure container image. Thanks to Docker, creating container images has never been easier. Specify a base image, add your changes, and create a container. Although this technique is great for starting […]

Kubernetes Best Practices. Kubernetes organization with namespace

Kubernetes Best Practices. Building Small Containers As you start building more and more Kubernetes services, things that are easy to start get more complicated. For example, development teams cannot create services or deployments under the same name. If you have thousands of Pods, simply listing them will take a lot of time, not to mention […]

The epilogue of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition could become paid

In the new issue of Weekly Famitsu, the developers of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition shared fresh details about Future Connected, an additional story chapter that serves as an epilogue to the main story. Let us remind you that the events of Future Connected will unfold a year after the final battle and will tell about the adventures of the main character Shulk and Princess Melia on the left shoulder of the frozen titan Bionis. According to […]

No, the developers of Death Stranding did not undertake to make a game for the publishing division of Riot Games

Kojima Productions public relations specialist Jay Boor posted a photo of his desktop on the studio's official microblog, on which curious users spotted an interesting shortcut. We're talking about an icon for a PDF file entitled "Riot Forge Announcement" (part of the title is not displayed due to excessive length). The mentioned company, we recall, is the publishing division of Riot Games. The fans didn't need [...]

The Moscow City Court will consider a lawsuit to completely block YouTube in Russia

It became known that the company Ontarget, which develops tests for personnel assessment, filed a lawsuit with the Moscow City Court to block the YouTube video service in Russia. This was reported by Kommersant, noting that Ontarget had previously won a lawsuit against Google over the same content. In accordance with the anti-piracy legislation in force in Russia, for repeated violation [...]

Cyberattack on Mitsubishi Electric could lead to leaks of Japanese hypersonic missile specifications

Despite all the efforts of specialists, security holes in the information infrastructure of companies and institutions remain an alarming reality. The scale of the disaster is limited only by the scale of the entities attacked and ranges from the loss of a certain amount of money to problems with national security. Today, the Japanese publication Asahi Shimbun reported that the Japanese Ministry of Defense is investigating a possible leak of specifications for a new advanced missile, which could have occurred […]

The quality has increased: journalists compared the Mafia II remaster and the classic version of the game

VG247 published a video comparing the classic version of Mafia II and Mafia II: Definitive Edition. Journalists took the same passages from the two projects and showed the difference between the original and the remaster. The updated version of the crime thriller wins in all respects, as can be seen in almost every frame shown. The video shows the initial episodes from the game: the main […]