On the website of the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the infrastructure of several crowdsourced wiki projects, including Wikipedia, a message has appeared stating that the outage of the online encyclopedia occurred due to a targeted hacker attack. It was previously reported that in several countries, Wikipedia temporarily switched to offline mode. According to the available data, access to […]
Microsoft previously announced that the PowerToys utility set is returning to Windows 10. This set first appeared during the Windows XP era. Now, developers have released two small programs for the 'ten'. The first is a guide to Windows keyboard shortcuts, which is a program with dynamic key combinations for each active window or application. When you press the […]
The Firefox developers announced the completion of testing support for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and their intention to enable this technology by default for users in the United States at the end of September. The rollout will be gradual, starting with a small percentage of users, and, if there are no issues, it will gradually expand to 100%. After the U.S. is covered, the possibility of enabling DoH for […] will be considered.
Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: Full support for the old literal syntax is now complete. Support for dependent types has been added. A built-in function Natural/subtract has been introduced. The process of selecting fields has been simplified. When arguments are equivalent, the \/\/ is not used. URLs presented in binary format are not decoded when passing through path segments. New Features: […]
We have already discussed VLAN local networks in video lessons Day 11, 12, and 13, and today we will continue exploring them according to the ICND2 topic. I recorded the previous video that marked the end of preparation for the ICND1 exam a few months ago, and I have been very busy since then until today. I think many of you successfully passed this […]
— Oh, nothing is working, help! — Don't worry, we'll fix everything now. What is the computer's name... (a classic scenario from tech support calls). It's good if you have a tool like BgInfo or if your users know about the Windows+Pause/Break shortcut and can press it. There are even rare instances of those who have managed to learn their machine's name. But often […]
On September 4th, the Slyrm DevOps event kicked off in St. Petersburg. All the necessary factors for an engaging three-day intensive gathered in one place and time: a comfortable conference hall at Selectel, seventy curious developers in the room, and 32 participants online, along with Selectel servers for practice. And a green dinosaur, lurking in the corner. On the first day of Slyrm, the participants […]
A test release of GNU Wget 2 is now available, a completely redesigned version of the program for automating the recursive download of content. GNU Wget 2 has been designed and rewritten from scratch and is notable for moving the core functionality of the web client into the libwget library, which can be used independently in applications. The utility is provided under the GPLv3+ license, and the library under the LGPLv3+. Wget 2 has been converted to a multithreaded architecture, […]
A corrective release of Exim 4.92.2 has been published to fix a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-15846) that, in the default configuration, could allow remote code execution by an attacker with root privileges. The issue only appears when TLS support is enabled and is exploited by passing a specially crafted client certificate or a modified value in SNI. The vulnerability was identified by Qualys. The problem exists in the special character escaping handler […]
TrendMicro has published information about a vulnerability (CVE not assigned) in the v4l2 driver, which allows a non-privileged local user to execute their code in the context of the Linux kernel. Details about the vulnerability are provided in the context of the Android platform, without specifying whether this issue is specific to the Android kernel or also manifests in the standard Linux kernel. To exploit the vulnerability, local access by the attacker is required […]
On September 7, the Debian project released updates for both the current stable release Debian 'buster' numbered 10.1 and the previous stable release Debian 'stretch' numbered 9.10. In Debian 'buster', more than 150 programs have been updated, including the Linux kernel to version 4.19.67, and bugs in gnupg2, systemd, webkitgtk, cups, openldap, openssh, pulseaudio, unzip, and many others have been fixed. In […]
The beta version of wget2 has been released — a complete rewrite of the wget spider downloader. Key differences: HTTP2 support. Functionality has been moved to the libwget library (LGPL3+). The interface is not yet stabilized. Multi-threading. Speed-ups achieved through HTTP and HTTP2 compression, parallel connections, and If-Modified-Since in the HTTP header. Plugins. FTP is not supported. According to the manual, the command-line interface supports all keys from the latest version of Wget 1 […]