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Google has introduced a new initiative called OSS VRP (Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program) to provide monetary rewards for identifying security issues in open projects such as Bazel, Angular, Go, Protocol Buffers, and Fuchsia, as well as in projects developed in Google's repositories on GitHub (Google, GoogleAPIs, GoogleCloudPlatform, etc.) and their dependencies. This initiative complements […]
The developers of the anonymous Tor network have formed the first stable release (1.0.0) of the Arti project, which is developing a Tor client written in Rust. Release 1.0 is noted as suitable for use by regular users, providing the same level of privacy, usability, and stability as the main implementation in C. The API offered for utilizing Arti's functionality in other applications has also been stabilized. The code is distributed […]
Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, fixing a serious vulnerability (CVE-2022-3075) that is already being exploited by attackers (0-day). The problem has also been resolved in the release 104.0.5112.114 of the separately maintained Extended Stable branch. Details are not yet disclosed; it is only reported that the 0-day vulnerability is caused by improper data verification in the Mojo IPC library. Judging by the added code […]
An update has been released for the open-source platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.18, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. The Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with development overseen by the community following a collaborative model.
The release of the Nmap 7.93 network security scanner is now available, designed for network auditing and identifying active network services. This release was announced on the 25th anniversary of the project. Over the years, the project has evolved from a conceptual port scanner published in 1997 in Phrack magazine into a fully functional application for network protection analysis and identifying used server applications.
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox 6.1.38 virtualization system, which includes 8 fixes. Key changes: Initial support for Linux 6.0 kernel has been implemented in the guest system extensions based on Linux, and the support for kernel packages from the RHEL 9.1 distribution branch has been enhanced. The installer for host and guest system extensions on Linux has improved verification of the presence of ...
An update for the Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS distribution has been formed, which includes changes related to hardware support improvements, updates for the Linux kernel and graphical stack, and bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. It also includes current updates for several hundred packages related to vulnerability fixes and issues affecting stability. Simultaneously, similar updates for Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.5 LTS, Kubuntu ... have been presented.
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11.2 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.2 (BLFS) manuals have been introduced, along with LFS and BLFS editions featuring the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source texts of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building ...
Google has released version 105 of the Chrome web browser. Concurrently, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by utilizing Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys to Google APIs, and transmission under […]
The release of the Armbian 22.08 Linux distribution has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including different models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard running on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. The builds are created using Debian package repositories […]
The release of the free graphical client Nicotine+ 3.2.5 for the P2P file-sharing network Soulseek has occurred. Nicotine+ aims to be a user-friendly, free open-source alternative to the official Soulseek client, offering additional functionality while maintaining compatibility with the Soulseek protocol. The client's code is written in Python using the GTK graphical library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for GNU/Linux, […]
The release of the QEMU 7.1 project has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows a program built for one hardware platform to run on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to that of the hardware system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and the involvement of […]