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Details about the second Matrix breach. GPG keys of the project were compromised.

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New details have been published regarding the breach of the decentralized messaging platform Matrix's infrastructure, reported earlier this morning. The vulnerable link through which attackers infiltrated was the Jenkins continuous integration system, which was compromised back on March 13. Subsequently, an SSH session of one of the administrators was intercepted on the Jenkins server, allowing attackers access to other servers in the infrastructure on April 4. […]

The patent troll Sisvel is forming a patent pool to collect royalties for the use of AV1 and VP9 codecs.

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Sisvel has announced the creation of a patent pool covering technologies that intersect with the open coding formats AV1 and VP9. Sisvel specializes in managing intellectual property, collecting royalties, and filing patent lawsuits (a patent troll, which led to the temporary suspension of OpenMoko builds). Although AV1 and VP9 formats do not require patent royalties, […]

The first release of the user-space OOM killer — oomd 0.1.0

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Facebook’s development aims at a more rapid and selective termination of processes consuming excessive memory before the Linux kernel’s OOM handler is triggered. The oomd code is written in C++ and is licensed under GPLv2. Oomd is already in use in Facebook's infrastructure and has proven effective under industrial loads (specifically, the project has nearly eliminated the occurrence of […]

Google suggested blocking the download of certain files via HTTP from links on HTTPS sites

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Google has suggested that browser developers implement a practice of blocking the download of dangerous file types when the referring page is opened over HTTPS, but the download is initiated without encryption over HTTP. The issue is that during the download, there is no security indication; the file simply downloads in the background. When such a download is initiated from a page opened over HTTP, […]

Release of Proxmox VE 5.4, a distribution for managing virtual servers

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4 is now available, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The size of the installation ISO image is 640 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully prepared virtual system […]

Release of system manager systemd 242

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After two months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 242 has been presented. Notable new features include support for L2TP tunnels, the ability to control the behavior of systemd-logind during restarts via environment variables, support for extended boot partitions XBOOTLDR for mounting /boot, the capability to boot with the root partition in overlayfs, and a large number of new settings for various unit types. Key changes: In systemd-networkd […]

Hacking of matrix.org infrastructure

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The developers of the Matrix decentralized messaging platform announced an emergency shutdown of the Matrix.org and Riot.im (the main Matrix client) servers due to a hack of the project's infrastructure. The first shutdown occurred last night, after which the servers were restored, and the applications were recompiled from the reference source code. But just a few minutes ago, the servers were compromised for the second time. The attackers posted on the main […]

Open Dylan 2019.1

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On March 31, 2019, five years after the previous release, a new version of the Dylan language compiler was released — Open Dylan 2019.1. Dylan is a dynamic programming language that implements the ideas of Common Lisp and CLOS in a more familiar syntax without parentheses. The main features in this version include: stabilization of the LLVM backend for i386 and x86_64 architectures on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS; the compiler has been added […]

Google Docs will support native Microsoft Office formats

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One of the main problems when working with Microsoft Office files in Google Docs will soon be resolved. The search giant announced the addition of built-in support for native Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats to its platform. Previously, editing data, collaborating, commenting, and more required converting documents to Google format, although they could be viewed directly. Now this will be […]

A mining script and hidden tracking blocker has been added in Firefox Beta

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Firefox 67 beta version includes code to block JavaScript inserts that mine cryptocurrencies or track users using hidden identification methods ("browser fingerprinting"). Blocking is carried out based on additional categories (fingerprinting and cryptomining) in the Disconnect.me list, which includes hosts implicated in using miners and code for hidden identification. The code for cryptocurrency mining results in a significant increase in load on […]

Firefox 66.0.3 corrective release

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A corrective release of Firefox 66.0.3 has been prepared, which updates the search plugin for Baidu and fixes four issues: Performance problems with some games written using HTML5 technologies (for example, games from the pogo.com service, which uses javascript-obfuscator to protect code from parsing) have been resolved; Issues with event handling when pressing keys in IBM Cloud and Microsoft Cloud applications (for example, […

Vulnerabilities in WPA3 wireless security technology and EAP-pwd

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Mathy Vanhoef, the author of the KRACK attack on wireless networks using WPA2, and Eyal Ronen, co-author of several attacks on TLS, revealed details about six vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-9494 — CVE-2019-9499) in the WPA3 wireless network protection technology that allow for the recreation of the connection password and unauthorized access to a wireless network without knowledge of the password. The vulnerabilities are grouped under the codename Dragonblood […]

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