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Microsoft previously announced that the PowerToys utility set is returning to Windows 10. This set first appeared during the Windows XP era. Now, developers have released two small programs for the 'ten'. The first is a guide to Windows keyboard shortcuts, which is a program with dynamic key combinations for each active window or application. When you press the […]
On the website of the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the infrastructure of several crowdsourced wiki projects, including Wikipedia, a message has appeared stating that the outage of the online encyclopedia occurred due to a targeted hacker attack. It was previously reported that in several countries, Wikipedia temporarily switched to offline mode. According to the available data, access to […]
Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: Full support for the old literal syntax is now complete. Support for dependent types has been added. A built-in function Natural/subtract has been introduced. The process of selecting fields has been simplified. When arguments are equivalent, the \/\/ is not used. URLs presented in binary format are not decoded when passing through path segments. New Features: […]
A test release of GNU Wget 2 is now available, a completely redesigned version of the program for automating the recursive download of content. GNU Wget 2 has been designed and rewritten from scratch and is notable for moving the core functionality of the web client into the libwget library, which can be used independently in applications. The utility is provided under the GPLv3+ license, and the library under the LGPLv3+. Wget 2 has been converted to a multithreaded architecture, […]
Lilocked is a Linux-targeted malware that encrypts files on the hard drive and subsequently demands a ransom (ransomware). According to ZDNet, the first reports of this malicious software surfaced in mid-July, and since then, more than 6,700 servers have been affected. Lilocked encrypts HTML, SHTML, JS, CSS, PHP, INI files, and various image formats while leaving system files untouched. Encrypted files receive […]
The beta version of wget2 has been released — a complete rewrite of the wget spider downloader. Key differences: HTTP2 support. Functionality has been moved to the libwget library (LGPL3+). The interface is not yet stabilized. Multi-threading. Speed-ups achieved through HTTP and HTTP2 compression, parallel connections, and If-Modified-Since in the HTTP header. Plugins. FTP is not supported. According to the manual, the command-line interface supports all keys from the latest version of Wget 1 […]
On September 7, the Debian project released updates for both the current stable release Debian 'buster' numbered 10.1 and the previous stable release Debian 'stretch' numbered 9.10. In Debian 'buster', more than 150 programs have been updated, including the Linux kernel to version 4.19.67, and bugs in gnupg2, systemd, webkitgtk, cups, openldap, openssh, pulseaudio, unzip, and many others have been fixed. In […]
TrendMicro has published information about a vulnerability (CVE not assigned) in the v4l2 driver, which allows a non-privileged local user to execute their code in the context of the Linux kernel. Details about the vulnerability are provided in the context of the Android platform, without specifying whether this issue is specific to the Android kernel or also manifests in the standard Linux kernel. To exploit the vulnerability, local access by the attacker is required […]
A corrective release of Exim 4.92.2 has been published to fix a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-15846) that, in the default configuration, could allow remote code execution by an attacker with root privileges. The issue only appears when TLS support is enabled and is exploited by passing a specially crafted client certificate or a modified value in SNI. The vulnerability was identified by Qualys. The problem exists in the special character escaping handler […]
The Kali Linux 2019.3 distribution has been released, designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and determining the aftermath of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the distribution are released under the GPL license and are available via a public Git repository. Three versions of the ISO images are prepared for download, sized at 1 GB, 2.8 GB, and 3.5 GB. The builds are available for […]
IGN reports, citing original messages on Twitter, that Death Stranding features a very easy difficulty level. This is the lowest tier, allowing any player to complete the game while enjoying the storyline. This was first revealed in a message from Hideo Kojima's personal assistant, who finished a test run of Death Stranding on the very easy difficulty. […]
Tails is a live operating system focused on privacy and anonymity that runs from a USB drive. All connections go through TOR! This release fixes numerous vulnerabilities. What has changed? The LibreOffice Math component has been removed, but you can still install it using the additional software option. Bookmarks from the Tor browser have been removed. Pre-created accounts for i2p and IRC in Pidgin have been removed. The Tor browser has been updated to 8.5.5. […]
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