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Facebook's development aims to more quickly and selectively terminate processes that consume too much memory before the kernel OOM handler is triggered. LinuxThe oomd code is written in C++ and licensed under the GPLv2. Oomd is already in use in Facebook's infrastructure and has proven itself in production workloads (in particular, the project has almost completely eliminated the occurrence of […]
Google has proposed that browser developers introduce blocking the download of dangerous file types if the page referring to the download is opened via HTTPS, but the download is initiated without encryption via HTTP. The problem is that there is no security indication during download, the file just downloads in the background. When such a download is launched from a page opened over HTTP, […]
Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4, a specialized release, is now available Linux-distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of replacing products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The installation ISO image size is 640 MB. Proxmox VE provides the tools for deploying a fully-fledged virtual […]
After two months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 242 is presented. Among the innovations, we can note support for L2TP tunnels, the ability to control the behavior of systemd-logind on restart through environment variables, support for extended XBOOTLDR boot partitions for mounting /boot, the ability to boot with a root partition in overlayfs, and There are also a large number of new settings for different types of units. Major changes: In systemd-networkd […]
The developers of the platform for decentralized messaging Matrix announced an emergency shutdown of the servers Matrix.org and Riot.im (the main client of Matrix) due to hacking of the project infrastructure. The first outage took place last night, after which the servers were restored and the applications rebuilt from reference sources. But a few minutes ago the servers were compromised for the second time. The attackers placed on the main […]
On March 31, 2019, five years after the previous release, a new version of the Dylan language compiler, Open Dylan 2019.1, was released. Dylan is a dynamic programming language that implements the ideas of Common Lisp and CLOS in a more familiar, parenthesized syntax. The main highlight of this version is the stabilization of the LLVM backend for the i386 and x86_64 architectures. Linux, FreeBSD and macOS; added to the compiler […]
One of the main problems when working with Microsoft Office files in Google Docs will soon disappear. The search giant announced the addition of native support for native Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats to its platform. Previously, to edit data, collaborate, comment, and more, you had to convert documents to Google format, although you could view them directly. Now it's [...]
The Firefox 67 beta includes code to block JavaScript that mines cryptocurrencies or tracks users through browser fingerprinting. Blocking is carried out according to additional categories (fingerprinting and cryptomining) in the Disconnect.me list, including hosts caught using miners and code for hidden identification. Code for mining cryptocurrencies, which leads to a significant increase in the load on […]
A corrective release of Firefox 66.0.3 has been prepared, which updates the search plugin for Baidu and fixes 4 bugs: Fixed performance issues with some games written using HTML5 technologies (for example, games from the pogo.com service that uses javascript-obfuscator to protect code from parsing); Resolved keystroke event handling issues in IBM Cloud and Microsoft Cloud applications (e.g. […]
Mathy Vanhoef, author of the KRACK attack on WPA2 wireless networks, and Eyal Ronen, co-author of several attacks on TLS, disclosed six vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-9494 - CVE-2019-9499) in the technology protection of WPA3 wireless networks, allowing you to recreate the connection password and gain access to the wireless network without knowing the password. The vulnerabilities are grouped under the code name Dragonblood […]
Happy Cosmonautics Day! We submitted “The Little Book of Black Holes” to the printing house. It was during these days that astrophysicists showed the whole world what black holes look like. Coincidence? We don’t think so 😉 So wait, an amazing book will appear soon, written by Steven Gabser and France Pretorius, translated by the wonderful Pulkovo astronomer aka Astrodedus Kirill Maslennikov, scientifically edited by the legendary Vladimir […]
A team of researchers from the University of Ca' Foscari (Italy) analyzed 90 thousand hosts associated with the 10 thousand largest sites ranked by Alexa, and concluded that 5.5% of them had serious security problems in their TLS implementations. The study looked at problems with vulnerable encryption methods: 4818 of the problematic hosts were found to be […]