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AMD has discontinued support for StoreMI but promises to replace it with new technology.

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AMD has officially announced that as of March 31, it will cease support for StoreMI technology, which allows combining hard drives and solid state drives into a single logical volume. The company also promised to present a new version of the technology with improved features in the second quarter of this year. StoreMI technology was introduced alongside the Ryzen 2000 series processors (Pinnacle Ridge) and the corresponding chipsets […]

Analysis results of backdoors in Android applications.

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Researchers from the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA), Ohio State University, and New York University conducted a study on hidden functionality in applications for the Android platform. An analysis of 100,000 mobile applications from the Google Play catalog, 20,000 from an alternative catalog (Baidu), and 30,000 pre-installed applications from various smartphones highlighted across 1,000 firmware from SamMobile, revealed that 12,706 (8.5%) […]

Release of Apache HTTP Server 2.4.43

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The release of the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.43 has been published (version 2.4.42 was skipped), featuring 34 changes and addressing 3 vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-1927: a vulnerability in mod_rewrite that allows the server to be used for redirecting requests to other resources (open redirect). Some mod_rewrite settings may lead to redirecting users to another link encoded with a newline character inside the parameter used in existing […]

Creating an additional kube-scheduler with a custom scheduling rule set

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Kube-scheduler is an integral component of Kubernetes responsible for scheduling pods to nodes according to specified policies. Often, during the operation of a Kubernetes cluster, we don’t have to think about the exact policies governing pod scheduling, as the default set of kube-scheduler policies works for most everyday tasks. However, there are situations when fine control over the scheduling process is important.

Two zero-day vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Mozilla Firefox browser

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Mozilla developers have released new versions of the Firefox 74.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.6.1 web browsers. Users are advised to update their browsers as the new versions fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by hackers. These vulnerabilities, CVE-2020-6819 and CVE-2020-6820, relate to how Firefox manages its memory space. They are known as use-after-free vulnerabilities […]

Americans proposed to collect energy for the Internet of Things from the magnetic fields of nearby electrical wiring.

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The topic of harvesting electricity from "the air"—from electromagnetic noise, vibrations, light, humidity, and much more—interests both civilian researchers and their counterparts in uniforms. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have contributed to this subject. They managed to extract electricity with a power output of several milliwatts from the magnetic fields of nearby electrical wiring, which is enough, for instance, […]

Beta release of Ubuntu 20.04

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The beta release of Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" has been announced, marking the complete freeze of the package base and the transition to final testing and bug fixing. This release, categorized as a long-term support (LTS) release, has updates planned over a 5-year period, with the final release scheduled for April 23. Ready test images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu […]

Google cancels the proposed tightening of third-party cookie handling in Chrome 80

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Google has announced the cancellation of the change regarding the implementation of stricter restrictions on the transmission of cookies between non-HTTPS sites. Starting in February, this change was gradually made known to Chrome 80 users. It is noted that although most sites had adapted to the specified limitation, due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, Google decided to postpone […]

Firefox 74.0.1 and 68.6.1 update addressing 0-day vulnerabilities

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Correction updates for Firefox 74.0.1 and 68.6.1 have been released, fixing two critical vulnerabilities that could lead to an attacker's code execution when processing specifically formatted content. It is warned that instances of these vulnerabilities being exploited for attacks have already been identified in the wild. These issues were caused by accessing already freed memory areas (use-after-free) when handling ReadableStream (CVE-2020-6820) and during execution […]

A Brief Introduction to BPF and eBPF

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Hello, Habr! We are excited to announce the upcoming release of the book “Linux Observability with BPF.” As the BPF virtual machine continues to evolve and is actively used in practice, we have translated an article for you that describes its main capabilities and current state. In recent years, tools for programming and techniques designed to overcome the limitations of the Linux kernel have gained popularity.

Content-based tagging in the werf collector: why and how it works?

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werf is our open-source GitOps CLI utility for building and delivering applications in Kubernetes. The v1.1 release introduced a new feature in the image builder: content-based tagging. Until now, the typical tagging scheme in werf involved tagging Docker images by Git tag, Git branch, or Git commit. However, all these schemes have their drawbacks.

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