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A new backdoor is targeting users of torrent services.

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The international antivirus company ESET warns of a new malware program that threatens users of torrent sites. The malware is called GoBot2/GoBotKR. It is distributed under the guise of various games and applications, as well as pirated copies of movies and series. After downloading such content, the user receives files that appear harmless at first glance. However, hidden within them is the malware. The activation of the malware occurs after clicking […]

Linux kernel release 5.2

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.2. Among the most notable changes are: case-insensitive mode for Ext4, separate system calls for mounting FS, drivers for Mali 4xx/6xx/7xx GPUs, the ability to process changes to sysctl values in BPF programs, the device-mapper module dm-dust, protection against MDS attacks, support for Sound Open Firmware for DSP, […]

Malicious code injection detected in the Ruby package Strong_password

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In the published June 25 release of the Strong_password gem 0.7, a malicious change (CVE-2019-13354) was identified that loads and executes external code controlled by an unknown attacker, hosted on Pastebin. The total number of project downloads is 247,000, while version 0.6 has around 38,000. The number of downloads for the malicious version is listed as 537, but it is unclear how accurate this is, considering that […]

Spotify Lite app officially launched in 36 countries, Russia is once again not included

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Spotify continues to test a lighter version of its mobile client, which started last year. The developers aim to expand their presence in regions where internet speeds are low, and users mainly own entry-level and mid-range mobile devices. Recently, the Spotify Lite app has been officially available on the Google Play digital content store in 36 countries, and in the future […]

Corporate Quest

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— Didn't you tell him? — What could I say?! – Tatiana exclaimed, genuinely indignant. – As if I know anything about your silly quest! — Why silly? – Sergey was equally surprised. — Because we will never find ourselves a new IT director this way! – Tatiana, as usual, started to blush from […]

Tabletop Role-Playing Tactics

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Good day. Today we will talk about a tabletop role-playing system of our own design, inspired by both console Eastern games and our experience with Western tabletop giants. The latter turned out to be not as fantastical as one might hope — cumbersome in terms of rules, featuring somewhat sterile heroes and items, overloaded with bookkeeping. So why not write something of our own? [ … ]

The Debian Project has released a distribution for schools — Debian-Edu 10

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A release of the Debian Edu 10 distribution, also known as Skolelinux, has been prepared for use in educational institutions. This distribution includes an integrated set of tools in a single installation image for the rapid deployment of both servers and workstations in schools, supporting both stationary workstations in computer labs and portable systems. Builds of size 404 [ … ] are available for download.

As part of the Glaber project, a fork of the Zabbix monitoring system has been created

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The Glaber project develops a fork of the Zabbix monitoring system, aimed at increasing efficiency, performance, and scalability, as well as suitable for creating fault-tolerant configurations that dynamically run on multiple servers. Initially, the project developed as a set of patches to enhance Zabbix's performance, but in April, work began on creating a separate fork. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Under heavy loads, users [ … ]

Exploring Async/Await in JavaScript with Examples

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The author of the article discusses Async/Await in JavaScript with examples. Overall, Async/Await is a convenient way to write asynchronous code. Before this feature became available, similar code was written using callbacks and promises. The author of the original article reveals the advantages of Async/Await by examining various examples. Reminder: for all readers of "Habr," there is a discount of 10,000 rubles when signing up for any Skillbox course [ … ]

Linux 5.2

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A new version of the Linux kernel 5.2 has been released. This version includes contributions from 15,100 developers out of 1,882. The size of the available patch is 62MB, with 531,864 lines of code removed. New features include a new attribute for files and directories, +F, which allows files to be treated as one file regardless of case. This attribute is available in the ext4 file system. In […]

Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 is available

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The release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 has been announced, as part of the Debian 10.0 "Buster" distribution, which combines the Debian environment with the GNU/Hurd kernel. The Debian GNU/Hurd repository includes approximately 80% of the packages from the total Debian archive, including ported versions of Firefox and Xfce 4.12. Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/KFreeBSD are the only Debian platforms built on a kernel other than Linux. The GNU/Hurd platform […]

Debian 10 "Buster" Release

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After two years of development, the release of Debian GNU/Linux 10.0 (Buster) is now available for ten officially supported architectures: Intel IA-32/x86 (i686), AMD64/x86-64, ARM EABI (armel), 64-bit ARM (arm64), ARMv7 (armhf), MIPS (mips, mipsel, mips64el), PowerPC 64 (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x). Updates for Debian 10 will be released over the next five years. The repository offers […]

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