A developer from RedHat announced the release of Flatpak 1.3.2 aimed at developers. Flatpak is a utility for deploying, managing packages, and virtualization for Linux. Version 1.3.2 includes significant changes and is based on the unstable branch 1.3. Notably, starting with Flatpak 1.3.2, the user file system FUSE relies on users writing directly to […]
Hello, today I admired some artifacts from the Soviet era and wanted to share with the community. This post won't contain technical analysis or historical references, just pictures for the curious and my notes. Therefore, I'm publishing it in the 'attic'. (Caution: about 40 Mb of images!) Electrical Connector According to legend, it comes from the brother of 'Buran' — 'Bura'. Note that the wire is embedded in a brown compound, visible […]
Since 2008, our company has primarily been engaged in infrastructure management and round-the-clock technical support for web projects: we have over 400 clients, which accounts for about 15% of e-commerce in Russia. Accordingly, the support involves a very diverse architecture. If something goes down, we are obliged to fix it within 15 minutes. But to understand that an incident has occurred, it is necessary to monitor the project and respond to incidents. […]
The release of the Ubuntu 19.04 'Disco Dingo' distribution is now available. Ready test images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the edition for China). Key innovations include: The desktop has been updated to GNOME 3.32 with a redesigned interface style, desktop, and icon elements, the cessation of global menu support, and experimental support for fractional scaling. […]
I want to talk about free products from Sophos that can be used both at home and in the enterprise (details below). Using the top solutions from Gartner and NSS Labs will significantly enhance personal security levels. The free solutions include: Sophos UTM, XG Firewall (NGFW), Antivirus (Sophos Home with web filtering for Win/MAC; for Linux, Android), and removal tools […]
We had 2 code analyzers, 4 dynamic testing tools, our own creations, and 250 scripts. Not that all this was needed in the current process, but once I started implementing DevSecOps, I needed to see it through to the end. Source. Character creators: Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. What is SecDevOps? And DevSecOps? What are the differences? Application Security—what is it about? Why does the classic approach no longer work? Yuri Shabalin knows the answers to all these questions […]
Hello, I am Sergei Elantsev, developing a network load balancer at Yandex.Cloud. Previously, I led the development of the L7 load balancer for Yandex's portal — my colleagues joke that whatever I work on turns into a load balancer. I will tell the readers of Habr how to manage load in a cloud platform, what we envision as the ideal tool to achieve this goal, and how we are progressing towards building this tool. For […]
The participants of the One Netbook project have released the convertible mini laptop One Mix 2S Yoga Platinum Edition, which is now available for order in online stores. The device is a hybrid of a netbook and a tablet. The screen measures 7 inches diagonally and has a resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels. It supports touch and special stylus input. The lid with the display can be rotated 360 degrees. […]
After five months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.0 is here, an open implementation of the client and server for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. Key changes: Experimental support for a key exchange method resistant to quantum computer attacks has been introduced in ssh and sshd. Quantum computers can solve the problem of factorizing natural numbers into prime factors, which is the basis of […]
We explain how to create a simple tip calculator application in Kotlin. Specifically, Kotlin 1.3.21, Android 4, and Android Studio 3. This article will be interesting primarily for those who are just starting their journey in Android app development. It helps to understand how everything works inside the application. Such a calculator will be useful when you need to calculate the tip amount from a company, […]
Do you want to know what types of forensic artifacts exist in WhatsApp across different operating systems and where they can be found? Then this article is for you. In this publication, Igor Mikhailov, a specialist from the Group-IB Computer Forensics Lab, begins a series of articles on forensic analysis of WhatsApp and what information can be obtained from device analysis. Let's note right away that in different operating systems […]
The Kiwi mobile browser is not very well-known among Android users yet, but it has some interesting aspects worth discussing. The browser was launched about a year ago, based on the open-source Google Chromium project, and it includes some intriguing features. Notably, it comes with a built-in ad and notification blocker by default, as well as a night mode […]