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A built-in password for accessing the user database has been discovered in the Linuxfx distribution.

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Members of the Kernal community have identified an extraordinarily careless attitude towards security in the Linuxfx distribution, which offers a build of Ubuntu with a KDE user interface styled after Windows 11. According to the project's website, the distribution is used by more than a million users, and approximately 15,000 downloads have been recorded this week. The distribution offers activation of additional paid features, made by entering a license key […]

GitHub disclosed information about the NPM infrastructure breach and the discovery of open passwords in logs.

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GitHub has published the results of an investigation into an attack where, on April 12, attackers gained access to cloud environments in the Amazon AWS service used in the NPM project infrastructure. The analysis of the incident showed that the attackers accessed backups of the host skimdb.npmjs.com, including a database backup containing the credentials of approximately 100,000 NPM users […]

The Ubuntu developers have begun addressing issues related to the slow launch of the Firefox snap package.

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Canonical has begun addressing performance issues with the snap package of Firefox, which was offered by default in Ubuntu 22.04 instead of the usual deb package. The main complaint from users is the very slow launch of Firefox. For example, on a Dell XPS 13 laptop, the first launch of Firefox after installation takes 7.6 seconds; on a Thinkpad X240 laptop — 15 seconds; and on a board […]

Microsoft has added support for WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in Windows Server.

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Microsoft has implemented support for the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in Windows Server 2022. Initially, the WSL2 subsystem, which allows the execution of Linux executables in Windows, was only available in Windows versions for workstations, but now Microsoft has also ported this subsystem to the server editions of Windows. Components for supporting WSL2 in Windows Server are currently available for testing in […]

The Linux 5.19 kernel has accepted around 500 thousand lines of code related to graphical drivers.

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In the repository where the release of the Linux kernel 5.19 is being prepared, a new set of changes related to the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem and graphics drivers has been accepted. This set of patches is notable for including 495 thousand lines of code, which is comparable to the total size of changes in each kernel branch (for example, in kernel 5.17, 506 thousand lines of code were added). About […]

AlmaLinux 9.0 distribution is now available, based on the RHEL 9 branch

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The release of the AlmaLinux 9.0 distribution has been formed, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution and containing all proposed changes for this branch. The AlmaLinux project has become the first publicly available distribution based on the RHEL package base to release stable builds based on RHEL 9. Installation images have been prepared for the x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of a bootable (800 MB), minimal (1.5 […]

Vulnerabilities in the NTFS-3G driver that allow root access to the system

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In the release of the NTFS-3G project 2022.5.17, which develops the driver and set of utilities for working with the NTFS file system in user space, 8 vulnerabilities allowing privilege escalation in the system have been fixed. These issues were caused by inadequate checks when processing command-line options and when working with metadata in NTFS partitions. CVE-2022-30783, CVE-2022-30785, CVE-2022-30787 are vulnerabilities in the NTFS-3G driver built with […]

New versions of the anonymous I2P network 1.8.0 and C++ client i2pd 2.42

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The release of the anonymous network I2P 1.8.0 and the C++ client i2pd 2.42.0 has taken place. I2P is a multi-layered anonymous distributed network that operates over the regular internet, actively utilizing end-to-end encryption to guarantee anonymity and isolation. The network is built in a P2P mode and forms itself through the resources (bandwidth) provided by its users, allowing for the avoidance of centrally managed servers (communications within the network […]

Release of Electron 19.0.0, an application framework based on the Chromium engine

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The release of the Electron 19.0.0 platform has been prepared, providing a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform user applications, using components from Chromium, V8, and Node.js as its foundation. The significant version change is associated with the update to Chromium codebase 102, Node.js platform 16.14.2, and JavaScript engine V8 10.2. Among the changes in the new release: A new method has been added to BrowserWindow that allows you to modify […]

Release of Chrome 102

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Google has released version 102 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable version of the open-source project Chromium, which underpins Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a crash reporting system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, continuous Sandbox isolation, provision of Google API keys, and transmission of […]

Release of Stratis 3.1, a toolkit for managing local storage

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The release of version 3.1 of the Stratis project, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community for the unification and simplification of configuration and management tools for one or more local storage pools, has been published. Stratis provides features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. Stratis support has been integrated into Fedora and RHEL distributions since […]

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