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The new QNAP expansion card will empower the computer with two USB 3.2 Gen2 ports

QNAP Systems has announced the QXP-10G2U3A expansion card designed for use in personal computers, workstations, and network-attached storage (NAS). The new card allows the system to be equipped with two USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports. This interface provides a bandwidth of up to 10 Gbps. The card is based on the ASMedia ASM3142 controller. A PCIe Gen2 x2 slot is required for installation. It is said to be compatible with […]

Update of the BIND DNS server 9.11.22, 9.16.6, 9.17.4 with the fix of 5 vulnerabilities

Corrective updates have been released for the stable branches of the DNS server BIND 9.11.22 and 9.16.6, as well as for the experimental branch 9.17.4 currently in development. The new releases fix five vulnerabilities. The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-8620) allows remote denial of service to be triggered by sending a specific set of packets to the TCP port on which BIND accepts connections. Sending abnormally large AXFR requests to the TCP port may lead to […]

Microsoft has ported the WSL2 subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to Windows 10 1903 and 1909

Microsoft announced support for the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in Windows 10 releases 1903 and 1909, which were formed in May and November of last year. Initially, the WSL2 subsystem, allowing for the execution of Linux executables on Windows, was introduced in the Windows 10 2004 release. Now, Microsoft has backported this subsystem to earlier Windows 10 updates, which […]

Release of openITCOCKPIT 4.0

openITCOCKPIT is open-source software for configuring Nagios or Naemon. The most significant changes in this version include: Data collection via its own agent The frontend and backend fully interact through the API Notifications through various chat systems (Slack, RocketChat, Mattermost, …) Automatic conversion of measurement units in graphs to simpler units Numerous improvements to the web interface and much […]

Mesosphere published — an open-core OS for Nintendo Switch

Hello, LOR! Mesosphere is an open version of the Horizon operating system kernel for the Nintendo Switch gaming console, compatible with the original. The development is being handled by the creator of the custom firmware Atmosphere and a team of developers. Currently, the kernel loads and operates on the console, and games are functioning as well. However, there are still many bugs and missing features. The source code is published under […]

Paragon Software has offered its NTFS implementation to upstream Linux

Co-founder and CEO of Paragon Software Group, Konstantin Komarov, published a patch in the Linux-Fsdevel mailing list implementing the NTFS filesystem driver, supporting all major operations — reading, writing, working with sparse and packed files, extended attributes, and data recovery and filesystem journaling. The code is provided under the GPL license and meets all basic patch acceptance requirements […]

The FritzFrog worm has been detected, targeting servers via SSH and building a decentralized botnet.

Guardicore, a company specializing in data center and cloud system protection, has identified a new high-tech malware called FritzFrog, which targets Linux-based servers. FritzFrog combines a worm that spreads through a brute-force attack on servers with an open SSH port, and components for building a decentralized botnet that operates without control nodes and has no single point of failure. A proprietary […]

Solaris 11.4 SRU24 is available

An update for the Solaris 11.4 operating system, SRU 24 (Support Repository Update), has been released, featuring a series of corrections and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply execute the command 'pkg update'. The new release includes: An updated Oracle Explorer to version 20.2, a toolkit for building detailed configuration and system status profiles; Added support for storage […]

Vulnerability in the Icinga Web monitoring interface

Corrective releases of the Icinga Web 2.6.4, 2.7.4, and v2.8.2 packages, which provide a web interface for the Icinga monitoring system, have been published. The proposed updates address a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-24368), allowing an unauthenticated attacker to access files on the server with the privileges of the Icinga Web process (typically the user under which the HTTP server or FPM runs). A successful attack requires one of the third-party modules supplied […]

Attacks on email client users using 'mailto:' links

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) analyzed (PDF) the behavior of email clients when processing 'mailto:' links with extended parameters. Five out of the twenty email clients reviewed were found to be vulnerable to an attack that manipulates resource substitution using the 'attach' parameter. An additional six email clients were susceptible to attacks through PGP and S/MIME key replacement, while three clients were vulnerable to […]

nnn v3.4 — console file manager with terminal icon support

A new version of the fully functional file manager nnn has been released, optimized for efficient workflow (searching, filtering, sorting, renaming, instant handling of thousands of files). The program uses minimal resources (binary 100KB, 3.5MB in RAM), is compatible with Pi, Termux (Android), Linux, macOS, BSD, Haiku, Cygwin, WSL, and various graphical and console environments. The program operates with 8 color […]

Release of the Kali Linux 2020.3 distribution for security research

The release of Kali Linux 2020.3 has occurred, designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several ISO image options have been prepared for download, sized at 430 MB, 2.9 GB, and 3.7 GB. The builds […]

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