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After three months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.3 has been announced, an open implementation of a client and server for SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new release includes protection against a scp attack, allowing the server to transmit file names different from those requested (unlike the previous vulnerability, this attack does not allow changing the chosen user directory or glob mask). Remember, […]
The release of the open billing system ABillS 0.83 is available, with its components supplied under the GPLv2 license. New features: Internet+ module added the ability to search comments in the GLOBAL search. In internet monitoring, Maps has been replaced with Maps2. Service ID has been added to the search. Expressions have been added to include the "pause" service. A calculation of the subscription fee for active days has been added, even if the session is not yet closed. […]
On May 22, Wine 5.9 was released. Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on POSIX-compliant operating systems, translating Windows API calls to POSIX calls on the fly instead of emulating Windows logic like a virtual machine. In addition to over 28 fixes in the bug tracker, the new release features: Significant progress in the WineD3D backend on Vulkan. Initial support for splitting DLL libraries into PE and […]
On May 19, the release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 6.7 was announced. This system emphasizes code quality and security. The project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the developers of NetBSD. The most significant changes in the release are listed below. Up to 15 partitions are now supported on a single physical device. More details on the machine-independent implementation of mploc for […]
It has become known that the Fast Startup feature in Windows 10, which speeds up the operating system boot process and is enabled by default on most computers, may interfere with the proper installation of updates. This was stated in a message from Microsoft, which was published on the company's official support site. The message noted that some updates, after installation, may require execution of […]
According to available information, the May update for Windows 10 will be released tomorrow. A user hiding under the nickname Aggiornamenti Lumia pointed out that the media creation tool for the new OS version is already available to users. It can be downloaded from the official Microsoft website. It is reported that the official page for the Media Creation Tool has not been updated. However, the link to download the new version is already active. […]
Researchers from NCC Group have published the results of an audit of the free Zephyr project, which develops a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at equipping devices aligned with the Internet of Things (IoT) concept. During the audit, 25 vulnerabilities in Zephyr and 1 vulnerability in MCUboot were identified. The Zephyr development is carried out with the involvement of companies like Intel. A total of 6 […]
The first release of the new main branch nginx 1.19 has been introduced, within which the development of new features will continue. In the concurrently supported stable branch 1.18.x, only changes related to fixing serious errors and vulnerabilities are being made. Next year, a stable branch 1.20 will be formed based on the main branch 1.19.x. Key changes: Added the ability to verify client certificates with the involvement of external […]
The release of the cross-platform framework Qt 5.15 has been announced. The source texts for the Qt components are provided under the LGPLv3 and GPLv2 licenses. A new branch of Qt 6 is expected to be published in December, which will bring significant architectural changes. To ease the transition to Qt 6, Qt 5.15 includes preliminary implementations of some new features and warnings about the imminent end of support for certain functionalities planned […]
An update for Protox, a mobile messaging application that allows users to communicate without server involvement based on the Tox protocol (s-toxcore), has been released. Currently, it only supports the Android OS; however, since the software is written on the cross-platform framework Qt using QML, it might be ported to other platforms in the future. The application serves as an alternative to Tox clients like Antox and Trifa. The project code […]
The music service Spotify has removed the limit of 10,000 songs for personal libraries. This was announced by the developers on the company's website. Users can now add an unlimited number of tracks to their library. Spotify users have complained for several years about the restrictions on the number of songs in their personal library, despite the service hosting over 50 million tracks. In 2017, company representatives stated […]
A team of researchers from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the University of Texas at Dallas has identified a new class of DoS attacks—RangeAmp—based on the use of the HTTP Range header to amplify traffic through Content Delivery Networks (CDN). The essence of the method is that due to the way Range headers are processed by many CDNs, an attacker can request one byte from a large file through the CDN, but […]