Internet News Section
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 […]
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. […]
Daniel Mach from Red Hat announced the start of development for the DNF 5 package manager, which will move the logic implemented in Python for DNF into the libdnf library written in C++. Testing for DNF 5 is planned to begin in June during the development of Fedora 33, followed by its addition to the Rawhide repository in October 2020, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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).
Microsoft has released PowerShell 7.0, the source code of which was opened in 2016 under the MIT license. The new shell version is prepared not only for Windows but also for Linux and macOS. PowerShell is optimized for automating command line operations and provides built-in tools for processing structured data in formats such as JSON, […]
A new version of the tool for sending and receiving data over the network — curl 7.69.0 — is now available, providing flexible request formatting with parameters such as cookie, user_agent, referer, and any other headers. cURL supports HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2.0, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, RTSP, RTMP, and other network protocols. An update for the concurrently developed library libcurl has also been released.
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