The California Court of Appeal has ruled in a case between Open Source Security Inc. (develops the Grsecurity project) and Bruce Perens. The court rejected the appeal and affirmed the lower court's verdict, which dismissed all claims against Bruce Perens and ordered Open Source Security Inc to pay $259 in legal fees (Perens […]
Google has published a plan to add new protection mechanisms to Chrome against unsafe file downloads. In Chrome 86, which is scheduled for release on October 26, downloading all types of files via links from pages opened via HTTPS will only be possible if the files are served using the HTTPS protocol. It is noted that downloading files without encryption can be used to commit malicious […]
Mike Gabriel, who maintains the Qt and Mate packages on Debian, presented an initiative to package Unity 8 and Mir for Debian GNU/Linux and then integrate them into the distribution. The work is being carried out jointly with the UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform and the Unity 8 desktop, after […]
Recently, Mike Gabriel, one of the Debian maintainers, agreed with the people from the UBports Foundation to package the Unity 8 desktop for Debian. Why do this? The main advantage of Unity 8 is convergence: a single code base for all platforms. It looks equally good on desktops, tablets and smartphones. On Debian there is currently no ready-made […]
Unbeknownst to everyone, the development team released CentOS 8.1, a completely free version of the commercial distribution from Red Hat. The innovations are similar to those of RHEL 8.1 (excluding some modified or removed utilities): The kpatch utility is available for “hot” (not requiring a reboot) kernel update. Added eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) utility - a virtual machine for executing code in kernel space. Added support […]
In the mobile browser Firefox Preview, however, so far only in nightly builds, the long-awaited ability to connect add-ons based on the WebExtension API has appeared. A menu item “Add-ons Manager” has been added to the browser, where you can see add-ons available for installation. The Firefox Preview mobile browser is being developed to replace the current edition of Firefox for Android. The browser is based on the GeckoView engine and Mozilla Android libraries […]
The demand for talented IT professionals is greater than ever. Due to the total digitalization of business, developers have become the most valuable resource for companies. However, it is extremely difficult to find suitable people for the team; the lack of qualified personnel has become a chronic problem. Personnel shortage in the IT sector The portrait of the market today is this: there are, in principle, few professionals, they are practically not trained, and there are ready-made […]
It's always a pleasure to share useful information with the community. We asked our employees to recommend resources that they themselves visit in order to keep abreast of events in the world of information security. The selection turned out to be large, so I had to split it into two parts. Part one. Twitter NCC Group Infosec is a technical blog of a large information security company that regularly releases its research, tools/plugins for Burp. Gynvael Coldwind […]
Many people think about problems that concern them before going to bed or upon waking up. I'm not an exception. This morning, one comment from Habr popped into my head: A colleague shared a story in a chat: The year before last I had an awesome client, this was back when I was in a pure “crisis”. The client has two teams in the development group, each […]
Greetings! Welcome to lesson seven of the Fortinet Getting Started course. In the last lesson, we got acquainted with such security profiles as Web Filtering, Application Control and HTTPS inspection. In this lesson we will continue our introduction to security profiles. First, we will get acquainted with the theoretical aspects of the operation of an antivirus and an intrusion prevention system, and then we will look at the operation of these security profiles […]
Today, from available materials, we will assemble a Telegram bot in Yandex.Cloud using Yandex Cloud Functions (or Yandex functions - for short) and Yandex Object Storage (or Object storage - for clarity). The code will be in Node.js. However, there is one piquant circumstance - a certain organization called, let’s say, RossKomTsenzur (censorship is prohibited by Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation), does not allow Internet providers […]
The translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the Network Engineer course. Enrollment for the course is now open. BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH SINGLE-PAIR 10Mbps ETHERNET - PETER JONES, ETHERNET ALLIANCE AND CISCO It may be hard to believe, but 10Mbps Ethernet is once again becoming a very popular topic in our industry. People ask me: “Why are we going back to the 1980s?” There is a simple […]
