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Pinging all IPv6 nodes on the channel

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The non-profit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone who wishes to obtain them, has announced the implementation of a new certificate issuance confirmation scheme for domains. Accessing the server hosting the verification directory '/.well-known/acme-challenge/' will now be done using multiple HTTP requests sent from 4 different IP addresses located in different data centers and belonging to […]

A vulnerability in the VMM hypervisor developed by OpenBSD has been found to be not completely fixed

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After analyzing the patch released by the OpenBSD project for the vulnerability in the VMM hypervisor identified last week, the researcher concluded that the provided patch does not resolve the issues. The researcher indicated that the problem does not arise from the contiguous allocation of physical addresses of the guest system (GPA, Guest Physical Address), as well as the physical addresses of the host system (HPA). When crossing the structures of the memory page of the guest […]

Release of the Console XMPP Client Profanity 0.8

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Eight years after the first commit and five months after version 0.7, the console XMPP client Profanity 0.8 has been released. The Profanity interface is built using the ncurses library and supports notifications via the libnotify library. The application can be compiled either with the libstrophe library, which implements the XMPP protocol, or its fork libmesode, maintained by the developer. The client’s capabilities can be extended […]

Ranking of Libraries Requiring Special Security Checks

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The Core Infrastructure Initiative fund, established by Linux Foundation, where leading corporations have joined forces to provide support for open projects involved in key areas of the computer industry, conducted a second study as part of the Census program aimed at identifying open projects that need priority security audits. The second study focuses on analyzing shared open code, […]

New Version of the Monitoring System Monitorix 3.12.0

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The release of the monitoring system Monitorix 3.12.0 has been announced, designed for visual monitoring of various services, such as CPU temperature, system load, network activity, and responsiveness of network services. The system is managed through a web interface, and data is presented in the form of graphs. It is written in Perl, uses RRDTool for graph generation and data storage, and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]

The release of the Linux sound subsystem — ALSA 1.2.2

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The release of the ALSA sound subsystem 1.2.1 has been announced. The new version includes updates to libraries, utilities, and plugins that operate at the user level. Drivers are evolving in sync with the Linux kernel. Among the changes, besides numerous driver fixes, notable improvements include support for Linux kernel 5.6, an expanded API for topology (the method of loading drivers from user space), and the integration of the fcplay utility, allowing the use of […]

Microsoft announced the public version of Defender ATP on Linux.

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Microsoft has announced the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP antivirus for Linux for enterprises. Thus, soon all desktop systems, including Windows and macOS, will be 'secured' from threats, and by the end of the year, mobile systems—iOS and Android—will join them. Developers stated that users have long requested a version for Linux. Now, this has become possible. Although […]

The multimedia server PipeWire 0.3 is now available, replacing PulseAudio

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A significant release of the PipeWire 0.3.0 project has been published, developing a next-generation multimedia server that replaces PulseAudio. PipeWire extends the capabilities of PulseAudio with tools for managing video streams, low-latency audio processing, and a new security model for managing access at the level of individual devices and streams. The project is supported in GNOME and is already actively used in Fedora Linux […]

Release of DNS Server BIND 9.16.0

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After 11 months of development, the ISC consortium has released the first stable version of the new major branch of the DNS server BIND 9.16. Support for branch 9.16 will be provided for three years until Q2 2023 as part of the extended support cycle. Updates for the previous LTS branch 9.11 will continue until December 2021. Support for branch 9.14 will end in three months. Key innovations: […]

The first beta release of the Android 11 mobile platform.

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Google has unveiled a beta version of the open mobile platform Android 11. The official release of Android 11 is expected in Q3 2020. A pre-testing program has been proposed to evaluate the new features of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 2 / 2 XL, Pixel 3 / 3 XL, Pixel 3a / 3a XL, and Pixel 4 / 4 XL devices. Reflashing […]

Vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins with over a million installs.

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Security researchers from Wordfence and WebARX have uncovered several critical vulnerabilities in five plugins for the WordPress content management system, totaling over a million installations. The vulnerability in the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin has more than 700,000 installations. This issue has been assigned a severity level of 9 out of 10 (CVSS). The vulnerability allows an authenticated user with subscriber rights to delete or hide […]

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