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The non-profit organization SPI (Software in the Public Interest), which oversees donations and legal matters (trademark, asset ownership, etc.) for projects such as Debian, Arch Linux, LibreOffice, X.Org, systemd, 0.A.D, PostgreSQL, FFmpeg, freedesktop.org, OpenWrt, OpenZFS, Jenkins, and OpenEmbedded, has published its financial report for 2019. The total amount raised was 920 thousand dollars […]
The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of a new collaborative project called OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation), aimed at bringing together leading industry representatives to enhance open source software security. OpenSSF will continue the development of initiatives like the Infrastructure Initiative and the Open Source Security Coalition, as well as consolidate other related security efforts undertaken by project participants. The founders of OpenSSF […]
IBM has announced a toolkit for implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) technology for Linux-based operating systems (for IBM Z and x86 architectures). Previously available for macOS and iOS, IBM's FHE toolkit is now released for Linux as well. It is provided in the form of Docker containers for three distributions: CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu Linux. What’s special about the technology […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.8. Among the most notable changes are: the KCSAN race condition detector, a universal notification delivery mechanism to user space, support for inline encryption hardware, enhanced protection mechanisms for ARM64, support for the Russian processor Baikal-T1, the ability to separately mount instances of procfs, and the implementation of protection mechanisms for ARM64 such as Shadow Call Stack and BTI. The kernel […]
Bpytop is a system resource monitor that displays current values and statistics for CPU, memory, disks, network, and individual processes. It is written in Python using psutil. This is a port of the bashtop utility to Python. According to the author, it is faster and consumes less CPU by itself. Features: Easy to use, with a menu system similar to […]
A dangerous vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress plugin wpDiscuz, which is installed on over 80,000 sites. This flaw allows anyone to upload any file to the server without authentication, including PHP files, thereby executing their code on the server. Versions affected are from 7.0.0 to 7.0.4 inclusive. The vulnerability has been fixed in release 7.0.5. The wpDiscuz plugin allows the use of AJAX for […]
After a year and a half of development, the Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Hadoop 3.3.0, a free platform designed for distributed processing of large volumes of data using the map/reduce paradigm, which divides tasks into many smaller, isolated fragments, each of which can be executed on a separate node of the cluster. A Hadoop-based storage can scale across thousands of nodes and […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.14 — has taken place. Since the release of version 5.13, 26 bug reports have been closed and 302 changes made. The most significant changes include: Continued restructuring support for the console. An initial version of the Webdings font has been proposed. The conversion of MSVCRT libraries to PE format has begun. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed: […]
The fifth corrective update for the Debian 10 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release contains 101 updates addressing stability issues and 62 updates addressing vulnerabilities. Among the changes in Debian 10.5 is the fix for a vulnerability in GRUB2 that allows bypassing the UEFI Secure Boot mechanism and enables the installation of unverified malicious software. […]
The developers of Wayland have introduced the first release of the new package wayland-utils, which will include utilities related to Wayland, similar to how the wayland-protocols package provides additional protocols and extensions. Currently, it includes only one utility, wayland-info, designed to display information about the Wayland protocols supported by the current composite server. The utility stands alone […]
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in X.Org Server and libX11: CVE-2020-14347 — a lack of memory initialization when allocating buffers for pixmaps via the AllocatePixmap() call can lead to the X client leaking memory content from the heap when the X server is running with elevated privileges. This leak can be used to bypass address space layout randomization (ASLR). When combined with other vulnerabilities, this issue […]
Every year on the last Friday of July, the world celebrates System Administrator Appreciation Day — a professional holiday for all those responsible for the reliable and uninterrupted functioning of servers, corporate networks, workstations, multi-user computer systems, databases, and other network services. This tradition was initiated by American IT specialist Ted Kekatos, who believed it was unfair that there was no significant day in the calendar for […]