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Roskomnadzor plans to block 9 VPN services within a month.

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The head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications, Alexander Zharov, announced that the Kaspersky Secure Connection service has been connected to the registry of banned websites. Other VPN services that received notifications about the need to connect to the registry refused to comply with the law prohibiting circumvention of restrictions. According to Mr. Zharov, nine VPN services did not fulfill the requirement […]

The Top 7 Most Incredible Adventures Ever Experienced

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Recently, I noticed something. I used to not care, but now I know it — and I didn't like it. In all those corporate trainings, as well as starting from elementary school, we are told many things where, as a rule, there's not enough room for adventure, recklessness, and the triumph of the human spirit in its pure, sublimated form. […]

What interviews and tests evaluate

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In the previous article habr.com/ru/post/450810, I examined 7 quick methods for assessing IT specialists’ competencies that can be applied before conducting a large, comprehensive, and labor-intensive technical interview. I discussed the essence of these methods and my experience applying them, as well as the reasons I like or dislike them. In this article, I want to talk about the modern concept of decision-making […]

Critical vulnerability in Exim versions 4.87 — 4.91

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A vulnerability has been discovered in Exim server versions 4.87 — 4.91, allowing remote command execution on the server with root privileges. Version 4.92, released in February, is not affected. There are no details about the vulnerability yet, but they should emerge after the lifting of the embargo (the period during which vendors receive information about the issue and decide what to do next). Source: linux.org.ru

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Beta is available.

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On June 5, 2019, the beta version of the RHEL 7.7 distribution became available. This is the last version of the 7 branch that will receive new features, but due to the 10-year support timeline, users of RHEL 7x will continue to receive updates and support for new hardware until 2024, although without new features. Major updates include support for the latest enterprise hardware and fixes for recent […]

Release of NetBSD 8.1

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The NetBSD 8.1 release is now available. What's new: Various kernel data leaks have been fixed. A smtoff parameter has been added to rc.conf to disable SMT/Hyper-Threading. Drivers added: bwfm for Broadcom FullMAC PCI and USB hardware, and mfii for LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS Fusion RAID controllers. DHCPCD has been updated to 7.2.2. The HTTPd has been updated. Networking device drivers have received fixes and improvements. Enhancements in DRM/KMS […]

Release of DNS server KnotDNS 2.8.2

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The KnotDNS 2.8.2 release has been introduced, a high-performance authoritative DNS server (the recursive resolver is implemented as a separate application), supporting all modern DNS features. The project is developed by the Czech domain registry CZ.NIC, written in C, and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The server is designed for high performance query processing, utilizing a multithreaded, mostly non-blocking implementation, which scales well on […]

Release of the IceWM window manager 1.5

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After two years of development, a new significant release of the lightweight window manager IceWM 1.5.5 has been prepared (the first release in the 1.5.x branch). The 1.5 branch continues the development of an unofficial fork that branched off in December 2015 from the abandoned IceWM codebase. The code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Notable features of IceWM include full keyboard combination management, the ability to […]

Homer or the first in history Open Source. Part 1

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It seems that Homer with his epics is something distant, archaic, difficult to read, and naïve. But that's not true. We are all permeated by Homer and the ancient Greek culture from which all of Europe emerged: our language is rich with words and quotes from ancient Greek literature. Just consider expressions like 'Homeric laughter,' 'the battle of the gods,' 'Achilles' heel,' 'the apple of discord,' and our native: […]

Technical Implementation of the Heat Potential Method for Area Analysis

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In the first publication (Using Thermal Potentials for Analyzing Territories), we discussed how thermal potentials can be used for territorial analysis in general. In the following publications, we planned to describe how information about spatial objects is stored in databases, how models are built from principal components, and what tasks territorial analysis may involve. But let's go in order. The use of […]

A critical vulnerability in Exim allows code execution on the server with root privileges

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) has been identified in the Exim mail server, which can lead to remote code execution on the server with root privileges when processing specially crafted requests. The exploitation potential is noted in versions 4.87 through 4.91 inclusive or in builds with the EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT option. In the default configuration, the attack can be executed without complications by a local user, […]

The multi-window console email client Aerc has been introduced

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After two years of development, the first preliminary release of the new mail client Aerc 0.1 is available, providing a console interface with tab support optimized for developers using mailing lists and Git. Tabs are switched in the style of tmux, allowing, for example, checking new emails and viewing threads of discussions simultaneously while writing a response and working in the terminal with Git. The project's code […]

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