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Web browser Min 1.13 released

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The release of the web browser Min 1.13 has taken place, offering a minimalist interface built around address bar manipulations. The browser is created using the Electron platform, allowing for the development of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports navigation […]

A vulnerability in pppd and lwIP allows remote code execution with root privileges.

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A vulnerability has been identified in the pppd package (CVE-2020-8597), allowing the execution of custom code by sending specially crafted authentication requests to systems using the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) or PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) protocols. These protocols are commonly used by providers for establishing connections over Ethernet or DSL, and are also used in some VPNs (such as pptpd and openfortivpn). To check for vulnerability in your […]

Ransomware distributors threaten to publish stolen data.

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Positive Technologies has released a comprehensive report that examines current cyber threats and trends in the world of cybercrime. Overall, the cybersecurity situation is worsening. In the last quarter of 2019, the number of unique incidents increased by 12% compared to the previous quarter. At the same time, the share of targeted attacks rose by 2%, reaching 67%. Cybercriminals continue to actively use […]

systemd 245 is available with the implementation of portable home directories

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After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 245 has been presented. The new release includes new components systemd-homed and systemd-repart, support for portable user profiles in JSON format, the capability to define namespaces in systemd-journald, and support for the 'pidfd' mechanism. The project's website has been completely redesigned, consolidating most of the available documentation and featuring a new logo. […]

The release of the GNU Coreutils 8.32 basic system utilities set

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After a year of development, a stable version of the GNU Coreutils 8.32 package is available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, ls, etc. Key innovations: The stat and ls utilities have been adapted to use the more efficiently functioning system call statx when available. In the utilities […]

Bug in BIND 9.16 causing TCP connection handling issues

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A serious bug has been discovered in the BIND 9.16.0 branch published two weeks ago, which leads to the exhaustion of the TCP connection limit. In BIND 9.16, a new networking subsystem was proposed, transitioned to an asynchronous request processing mechanism based on the libuv library. Due to an error in this subsystem, the counter of active TCP connections does not decrease under certain conditions, leading to an increasing discrepancy of […]

PowerShell 7 has been released

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On March 4, the new version of PowerShell 7 was released. PowerShell is a "cross-platform automation and configuration framework optimized for structured data, REST APIs, and object models," which includes a command shell, an object-oriented language, and a set of tools for executing scripts and managing modules. New features include: Parallel processing of objects in ForEach-Object New operators: […]

Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 and KnotDNS 2.9.3

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The release of the caching DNS server PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 has taken place, responsible for recursive name resolution. PowerDNS Recursor is built on the same codebase as the PowerDNS Authoritative Server, but the recursive and authoritative DNS servers of PowerDNS are developed on different development cycles and are released as separate products. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The server provides tools for remote statistics collection, supporting […]

Release of Samba 4.12.0

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On March 3rd, the release of Samba 4.12.0 was announced. Samba is a set of programs and utilities for working with network drives and printers across various operating systems via the SMB/CIFS protocol. It includes both client and server components. It is free software released under the GPL v3 license. Key changes: The code has been cleaned of all cryptographic implementations in favor of external libraries. The main […]

Google Assistant has learned to read web pages aloud

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The Google Assistant virtual assistant for the Android platform is becoming more useful for people with visual impairments as well as those learning foreign languages. Developers have added the capability for the assistant to read aloud the contents of web pages. Google states that this new function combines many of the company's advancements in speech technology. As a result, this feature works more naturally […]

Nightly builds of Firefox have introduced the ability to install websites as applications

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis of the Firefox 75 release, the ability to install and open websites as applications is added, allowing users to work with the site like a regular desktop program. To enable this, you need to add the setting "browser.ssb.enabled=true" in about:config, after which the menu item "Install […]" will appear in the context menu for page actions (the three dots in the address bar).

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