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The free cross-platform UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 6.9 has been released. This marks the 50th release of the project, which celebrates its 26th anniversary this year. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 following a conflict with the developers of NetBSD, resulting in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo […]
A release candidate for the Rocky Linux 8.3 distribution is available for testing, aimed at creating a new free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS after Red Hat decided to end support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, rather than in 2029 as initially planned. Rocky Linux builds are prepared for x86_64 architectures and […]
After a year of development, the release of a new stable branch of the Postfix mail server — 3.6.0 — has occurred. At the same time, it was announced that support for the Postfix 3.2 branch, released in early 2017, will be discontinued. Postfix is one of the few projects that combines high security, reliability, and performance, achieved through a well-thought-out architecture and a sufficiently strict policy for code formatting and […]
The Free Software Foundation has introduced a new device that has received the 'Respect Your Freedom' certification, confirming that the device meets the requirements for ensuring user privacy and freedom, and grants the right to use a special logo in product-related materials, highlighting the provision of full control to the user over the device. The certificate has been awarded to the Wireless-N Mini Router v3 (TPE-R1300), distributed by ThinkPenguin. The TPE-R1300 is an improved version of […]
The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 21.04.27 distribution, built on FreeBSD, is now available, offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC initialization system and the ZFS file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall written in Python). Bootable images have been created for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). In […]
The release of QEMU 6.0 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running 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 a physical system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and by utilizing […]
The research lab 360 Netlab reported the discovery of new malware for Linux, codenamed RotaJakiro, which includes a backdoor implementation that allows control of the system. The malware could have been installed by attackers after exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in the system or guessing weak passwords. The backdoor was detected during the analysis of suspicious traffic from one of the system processes identified during the analysis of […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4 has been published, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of serving as an alternative to products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 928 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready system of virtual […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.22, which includes 5 fixes. Major changes: In the additions for guest systems running Linux, issues with launching executable files located on mounted shared drives have been resolved. In the virtual machine manager, the performance of starting 64-bit guest systems running Windows and Solaris using Hyper-V hypervisor mode on host systems has been improved […]
GitHub has published changes to the rules defining the policy regarding the hosting of exploits and malware research findings, as well as compliance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The changes are currently in draft form and available for discussion for 30 days. In the DMCA compliance rules, in addition to the previously existing ban on distribution and facilitation of installation or […]
Corrective updates for Samba package versions 4.14.4, 4.13.8, and 4.12.15 have been released to address a vulnerability (CVE-2021-20254) that can lead to the smbd process crashing in most cases. In the worst-case scenario, it could allow unauthorized access to files and deletion of files by non-privileged users on the network share. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the sids_to_unixids() function, leading to data being read from outside a […]
Corrective updates for stable branches of the BIND DNS server 9.11.31 and 9.16.15, as well as the under-development experimental branch 9.17.12, have been released. The new releases address three vulnerabilities, one of which (CVE-2021-25216) leads to a buffer overflow. On 32-bit systems, the vulnerability can be exploited for remote code execution by sending a specially crafted GSS-TSIG request. On 64-bit systems, the issue is limited to crashes […]