Author: ProHoster

Every fiftieth online banking session is initiated by criminals

Kaspersky Lab released the results of a study that analyzed the activity of cybercriminals in the banking sector and in the field of e-commerce. It is reported that last year, every fiftieth online session in the designated areas in Russia and the world was initiated by attackers. The main goals of scammers are theft and money laundering. Almost two-thirds (63%) of all attempts to make unauthorized transfers were […]

Google Stadia will release four games from the SteamWorld series - two will go to Stadia Pro subscribers for free

Google announced on the official Google Stadia blog that it will soon expand the library of its streaming service with four games from the SteamWorld series. Two of them will be given to Stadia Pro subscribers for free. We are talking about the action platformers SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Dig 2, the tactical strategy SteamWorld Heist, as well as the card role-playing game SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech. The exact release dates of the listed projects […]

Microsoft announces public version of Defender ATP on Linux

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP antivirus on Linux for enterprises. Thus, soon all desktop systems, including Windows and macOS, will be “closed” from threats, and by the end of the year, mobile systems - iOS and Android - will join them. The developers said that users have been asking for a Linux version for a long time. Now it has become possible. Although […]

About 600 ad-violating apps removed from Google Play

Google announced the removal from the Google Play catalog of about 600 applications that violated the rules for displaying advertising. Problematic programs are also blocked from accessing the advertising services Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager. The removal mainly affected programs that display advertisements unexpectedly for the user, in places that interfere with work, and at times when the user is not working with […]

GitHub published a report on blocking in 2019

GitHub has published an annual report that reflects notifications of intellectual property violations and publication of illegal content received in 2019. In accordance with the current US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act), in 2019 GitHub received 1762 blocking requests and 37 rebuttals from repository owners. For comparison, […]

PipeWire 0.3 multimedia server available, replacing PulseAudio

A significant release of the PipeWire 0.3.0 project has been published, developing a new generation multimedia server to replace PulseAudio. PipeWire extends PulseAudio's capabilities with video stream processing, low-latency audio processing, and a new security model for device- and stream-level access control. The project is supported in GNOME and is already actively used in Fedora Linux […]

Serious vulnerability in sudo

With the pwfeedback option enabled in sudo settings, an attacker can cause a buffer overflow and escalate their privileges on the system. This option enables the visual display of entered password characters as a * symbol. On most distributions it is disabled by default. However, on Linux Mint and Elementary OS it is included in /etc/sudoers. To exploit a vulnerability, an attacker does not have to be in [...]

9. Fortinet Getting Started v6.0. Logging and reporting

Greetings! Welcome to lesson nine of the Fortinet Getting Started course. In the last lesson, we looked at the basic mechanisms for controlling user access to various resources. Now we have another task - we need to analyze the behavior of users on the network, and also configure the receipt of data that can help in the investigation of various security incidents. Therefore, in this lesson we will look at the mechanism [...]

Upgrading a Kubernetes Cluster Without Downtime

The Upgrade Process for Your Kubernetes Cluster At some point when using a Kubernetes cluster, there is a need to upgrade running nodes. This may include package updates, kernel updates, or deployment of new virtual machine images. In Kubernetes terminology this is called "Voluntary Disruption". This post is part of a 4-post series: This post. Correct shutdown of pods in […]

802.11ba (WUR) or how to cross a grass snake with a hedgehog

Not so long ago, on various other resources and in my blog, I talked about the fact that ZigBee is dead and it’s time to bury the flight attendant. In order to put a good face on a bad game with Thread working on top of IPv6 and 6LowPan, Bluetooth (LE) that is more suitable for this is sufficient. But I'll tell you about this some other time. […]

Facebook and Sony pull out of GDC 2020 due to coronavirus

Facebook and Sony announced Thursday they will skip the GDC 2020 game developer conference in San Francisco next month due to ongoing concerns about the potential for the coronavirus outbreak to spread further. Facebook typically uses the annual GDC conference to announce its Oculus virtual reality division and other new games. A company representative said that Facebook will conduct all […]