ProHoster > Blog > Internet News

Category: Internet News

Internet News Section

Cloudflare has launched a service to track the filtering of incorrect BGP routes

Posted on

Cloudflare has launched the site isBGPSafeYet.com, aimed at raising awareness about the issue of incorrect BGP route leaks and the potential for traffic redirection attacks using the BGP protocol. The site allows users to check the implementation of incorrect route filtering technology by providers and assess the adoption of RPKI support. Many operators remain vulnerable to BGP announcements of subnets with false routing length information, […]

Release of Display Server Mir 1.8

Posted on

The release of the Mir 1.8 display server has been announced, which is still being developed by Canonical despite its withdrawal from Unity shell development and Ubuntu for smartphones. Mir continues to be in demand for Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]

KWinFT has been introduced, a fork of KWin focused on Wayland

Posted on

Roman Gilg, a contributor to the development of KDE, Wayland, Xwayland, and X Server, has introduced the KWinFT (KWin Fast Track) project, which develops a flexible and user-friendly composite window manager for Wayland and X11 based on the KWin codebase. In addition to the window manager, the project is also developing the wrapland library that provides a wrapper for libwayland for Qt/C++, continuing the development of KWayland, […]

Release of the NGINX Unit application server 1.17.0

Posted on

The release of the NGINX Unit 1.17 application server has taken place, which enhances the solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). With NGINX Unit, multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously, and their launch parameters can be modified dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]

Microsoft will add an advanced search engine to Windows 10, similar to Spotlight in macOS

Posted on

In May, the Windows 10 operating system will receive a search feature similar to Spotlight in macOS. To enable it, users will need to install the PowerToys utility, which simplifies certain tasks and is designed for advanced users. The new search tool will replace the 'run' window invoked by the Win + R key combination. By entering queries in the pop-up field, users will be able to quickly find […]

OpenVPN 2.4.9 update

Posted on

A corrective release of the OpenVPN 2.4.9 package for creating virtual private networks has been formed. In the new version, a vulnerability (CVE-2020-11810) has been fixed, which allows a client's session to be switched to a new IP address that was not previously authorized. This issue can be exploited to interrupt a client that has just connected at a stage when the peer-id has already been formed, but session key negotiation has not been completed (one client can […]

The release of Fedora 32 has been delayed by one week

Posted on

The Fedora project developers have announced a one-week delay for the release of Fedora 32 due to failure to meet quality criteria. The Fedora 32 release is now planned for April 28, instead of the originally scheduled April 21. Three issues remain unfixed in the final test builds that are classified as release-blocking. Among the release-blocking issues are problems with recognition […]

Oracle has launched free educational courses on Java and databases

Posted on

Oracle announced the expansion of the capabilities of the Oracle Academy online learning platform and the conversion of several educational online courses to free. The free resources of Oracle Academy are designed to teach database management, the basics of SQL, programming in Java, as well as software development using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The courses are available in various languages, […]

Valve has released Proton 5.0-6, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Posted on

Valve has released version 5.0-6 of the Proton project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Windows-based gaming applications on Linux, which are available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows the direct launch of gaming applications provided only for Windows in the Steam Linux client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]

A vulnerability in the vhost-net driver within the Linux kernel

Posted on

A vulnerability (CVE-2020-10942) has been identified in the vhost-net driver, which provides virtio net functionality on the host environment, allowing a local user to initiate a kernel stack overflow by sending a specially crafted ioctl(VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND) to the /dev/vhost-net device. The issue arises from the lack of proper validation of the sk_family field content in the get_raw_socket() function code. Preliminary reports indicate that the vulnerability could be leveraged for a local DoS attack through kernel crash calls (details are […]

GitHub has successfully completed its acquisition of NPM

Posted on

GitHub Inc, owned by Microsoft and operating as an independent business unit, has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of the NPM Inc business, which oversees the development of the NPM package manager and maintains the NPM repository. The NPM repository serves over 1.3 million packages used by approximately 12 million developers, with about 75 billion downloads recorded monthly. The deal amount is […]

« to the beginning 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 to the end »
Buy reliable website hosting with DDoS protection, VPS VDS servers 🔥 Buy reliable website hosting with DDoS protection, VPS VDS servers | ProHoster