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Checkpoint Offers Safe-Linking Protection Technique to Complicate Exploitation of Vulnerabilities

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Checkpoint introduced Safe-Linking protection to make it more difficult to create exploits that manipulate the definition or modification of pointers to buffers allocated during a malloc call. Safe-Linking does not completely block the possibility of exploiting vulnerabilities, but with minimal overhead it significantly complicates the creation of certain categories of exploits, since in addition to the exploitable buffer overflow, it is necessary to find another vulnerability that causes information leakage […]

New version of BitTorrent client Transmission 3.0

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After a year of development, the release of Transmission 3.0 was published, a relatively lightweight and resource-intensive BitTorrent client written in C and supporting a variety of user interfaces: GTK, Qt, native Mac, Web interface, daemon, command-line. Main changes: The ability to accept connections via IPv6 has been added to the RPC server; SSL certificate verification is enabled by default for HTTPS downloads; Returned hash usage in […]

Video: The Crew 2 comes with a big free update next week with the "Hobby" feature

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Ubisoft presented a fresh trailer for The Crew 2 with the announcement of a fresh update that will be released on the 27th and will add the β€œHobbies” feature. Players will be encouraged to do what they love by completing themed activities while unlocking exclusive rewards. According to the trailer presented, Hobby will offer three paths, the first of which is Explorer. It includes 100 tests. For example, it will be possible to travel [...]

MTG Arena Tournament Promises $2000 to Each Winner with No Limits

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Wizards of the Coast has announced a new type of tournament, Magic: The Gathering Arena Open, in which players can earn valuable in-game rewards and cash prizes. An unlimited prize fund will be available: everyone who wins the required number of wins will receive $2000. The competition will be held online, in MTG Arena. You can play from home and take breaks between matches, [...]

Steam's best April releases: Lots of indies, but there's room for big franchises too

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Valve has published the top Steam releases for April 2020. The company said that in the past month, nine development studios have released their product on the platform for the first time and achieved success: 1939 Games, Bad Pixel, Byterunners Games Studio, Gentlymad Studios, Live Motion Games, Meerkat Games Corporation, Steel Sky Productions, Topgolf Media and Unfrozen . In April, games from well-known […]

An early build of iOS 14 was leaked to the Internet in February of this year.

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It appears that Apple has very serious internal security problems. According to Vice, an early version of the iOS 14 mobile operating system has been in the possession of some computer security specialists, hackers and bloggers β€œsince at least February of this year.” Over the past months, leaks have appeared on the Internet every now and then related to the new version of the mobile OS from […]

Portable version of OpenBGPD 6.7p0 available

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The OpenBSD developers have published the release of a portable edition of the OpenBGPD 6.7 routing package that can be used on non-OpenBSD operating systems. To ensure portability, parts of the code from the OpenNTPD, OpenSSH and LibreSSL projects were used. In addition to OpenBSD, support for Linux and FreeBSD is announced. OpenBGPD has been tested on Debian 9, Ubuntu 14.04+ and FreeBSD 12. OpenBGPD is being developed with the support of the regional […]

Wine 5.9 release

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.9 - took place. Since the release of version 5.8, 28 bug reports have been closed and 337 changes have been made. The most important changes: The development of the WineD3D backend based on the Vulkan graphics API has made significant progress; There is initial support for splitting DLLs into variants in PE and Unix shared library (.so) formats. Initial […]

The creators of WordPress invested $4.6 million in the company developing the Riot Matrix client

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Automattic, founded by the creator of WordPress and developing the WordPress.com platform, invested $4.6 million in New Vector, a company created in 2017 by key developers of the Matrix project. New Vector oversees the development of Riot's main Matrix client and maintains the hosting of Matrix services Modular.im. Moreover, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and creator of Automattic, intends to integrate support for Matrix […]

Windows 3.0 is 30 years old

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On this day, exactly 30 years ago, Microsoft introduced the Windows 3.0 operating system, which included the legendary Solitaire game, which won the hearts of tens of millions of users around the world. And although Windows 3.0 was, in fact, just a graphical shell for MS-DOS, in just a couple of years it sold out in circulation, unprecedented at that time, by more than […]

Frogwares has hinted at its next project - according to the leak, a game about a young Sherlock Holmes

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Frogwares studio published a small teaser of its next project on its personal microblog. The message, written on a black background, reads: β€œChapter One. Demonstration coming soon." Considering that today, May 22, is the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer who became famous for his works about Sherlock Holmes, it is not difficult to guess which character the new Frogwares game will be dedicated to. The studio has not yet officially […]

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