The Sun will hardly set twice below the horizon before all IT Jedi, Padawans, and Younglings flock to the star system 'Forest Depths' to affirm their IT status. The testing of the Force adepts will be handled by Rostelecom, RT Labs, and Habr. The initiation point will be the Russian Internet Forum (RIF), where warriors of information technology will gather for a council on numerous questions of galactic importance — small and medium business [...]
As multifunction printers (MFPs) have increased their built-in features, they have long since moved beyond simple scanning and printing. They have now evolved into fully autonomous devices integrated into high-tech local and global networks, connecting users and organizations not only within a single office but worldwide. In this article, together with practical information security expert Luka Safonov, we will explore […]
95% of cybersecurity threats are known, and you can defend against them using traditional means such as antivirus programs, firewalls, IDS, and WAF. The remaining 5% of threats are unknown and the most dangerous. They account for 70% of the risk to a company because they are very difficult to detect and even harder to protect against. Examples of 'black swans' include ransomware epidemics like WannaCry, […]
When a business operates with large data sets, the unit of storage becomes not an individual disk, but a set of disks, their aggregate, a necessary volume aggregate. And it must be managed as a cohesive entity. The logic of scaling storage with large block aggregates is well described using the JBOD example — both as a disk aggregation format and as a physical device. You can scale the disk infrastructure not only 'upward', cascading JBODs, but […]
Background In a medical organization, solutions based on PACS servers Orthanc and DICOM client Radiant were being implemented. During the setup, it turned out that each DICOM client must be described in the PACS servers as follows: Client name AE-name (must be unique) TCP port that automatically opens on the client side and receives DICOM studies from the PACS server (i.e., the server essentially pushes them towards the client […]
You have probably already noticed that Visual Studio 2019 has been released. As expected, we have added enhancements for web development and Azure development. Serving as a starting point, Visual Studio 2019 provides new features to start working with your code, and we have also updated the creation experience for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects to match the following […]
A vulnerability has been found in the Adblock Plus ad blocker that allows the execution of JavaScript code in the context of websites when using unverified filters created by malicious actors (e.g., when connecting third-party rule sets or through rule substitution during a MITM attack). Authors of filter lists can execute their code in the context of user-opened websites by adding rules with the 'rewrite' operator.
Instead of the release 1.1, which was canceled due to a GPU hang issue, a new release of the DXVK 1.0.3 layer has been prepared, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 10, and Direct3D 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. DXVK 1.0.3 includes some fixes and improvements from the 1.1 branch, such as: The DLL now includes version information for DXVK; On systems with...
Gene was born in the Soviet Union. Even though it was already during the twilight of the great empire, he managed to see the portrait of Lenin against the red flag, located on the first spread of the primer. And of course, Gene adored everything related to space. He was proud to live in a country with the most impressive list of achievements in astronautics, each item of which began with the word 'first'. Gene...
After NVIDIA demonstrated real-time ray tracing on GeForce RTX series graphics cards, it's hard to doubt that this technology (in a reasonable combination with the rasterization algorithm) is the future of computer games. However, graphics processors based on the Turing architecture with specialized RT cores were considered until recently the only category of discrete GPUs with suitable for...
The developers of the NetBSD project have announced the creation of a new hypervisor and its associated virtualization stack, which are already included in the experimental branch of NetBSD-current and will be offered in the stable release of NetBSD 9. NVMM is currently limited to support for the x86_64 architecture and provides two backends for utilizing hardware virtualization mechanisms: x86-SVM with support for AMD CPU virtualization extensions and x86-VMX for...
If you're involved in building medium to large Wi-Fi networks, where the minimum number of access points is several dozen, and for larger sites it can be in the hundreds or thousands, you need tools to plan such an impressive network. The results of planning/designing will affect Wi-Fi performance throughout the network's lifecycle, which, for our country, can often amount to around […]