Author: ProHoster

HILDACRYPT: New ransomware hits backup systems and antivirus solutions

Hello, Habr! Once again, we are talking about the latest versions of malware from the Ransomware category. HILDACRYPT is a new ransomware, a member of the Hilda family discovered in August 2019, named after the Netflix cartoon that was used to distribute the software. Today we are getting acquainted with the technical features of this updated ransomware virus. In the first version of the Hilda ransomware […]

Windows Terminal Update: Preview 1910

Hello, Habr! We are pleased to announce that the next update for Windows Terminal has been released! Among the new products: dynamic profiles, cascading settings, updated UI, new launch options and more. More details under the cut! As always, Terminal is available for download from the Microsoft Store, Microsoft Store for Business, and GitHub. Dynamic profiles Windows Terminal now automatically detects PowerShell Core and installed […]

Security for Docker containers

Note transl.: The topic of Docker security is perhaps one of the eternal ones in the modern IT world. Therefore, without further explanation, we present a translation of the next selection of relevant recommendations. If you have already been interested in this issue, many of them will be familiar to you. We have supplemented the collection itself with a list of useful utilities and several resources for further study of the issue. Here is a guide to [...]

Independent telecommunications environment Medium: how the community is developing "Internet 2.0"

Hello, Habr! The Internet is always good. But it’s even better when control over it is exercised by the community, and not by the state and corporations. In this post, I will talk about how and why a community of enthusiasts is developing Medium - a decentralized alternative to the current Internet. Since the development process was largely closed for some time, [...]

What it's like when 75% of your employees are autistic

TL;DR. Some people see the world differently. A New York software company decided to use this as a competitive advantage. Its staff consists of 75% testers with autism spectrum disorders. Surprisingly, the things autistic people need have turned out to be useful for everyone: flexible hours, remote work, communication on Slack (instead of face-to-face meetings), a clear agenda for every meeting, no open offices, […]

Satellite Internet - the new space "race"?

Disclaimer. The article is an expanded, corrected and updated translation of Nathan Hirst’s publication. Some information from the article on nanosatellites was also used to construct the final material. There is a theory (or perhaps a cautionary tale) among astronomers called Kessler syndrome, named after the NASA astrophysicist who proposed it in 1978. In this scenario, an orbiting satellite or some other object […]

Habr Weekly #25 / Informal team relationships, employees with autism, and criticism of Telegram

In this issue: 02:10 Informal relationships in a team: why and how to manage them, dsemenikhin 21:31 What is it like when 75% of your employees are autistic, ITSumma 30:38 Bro vs. no bro, Nikitius_Ivanov 40:20 Criticism of the Telegram protocol and organizational approaches. Part 1, technical: experience of writing a client from scratch - TL, MT, nuclight Materials that we mentioned in the issue: How […]

From the ship to the ball. Cross-continent swim from Asia>Europe>Asia

Good day, gentlemen! We will talk about the Bosphorus action movie, which was released in 2016: the official swim from Asia to Europe and the unofficial/night swim from Europe to Asia. Part 1. From the ship to the ball On a hot August day in 2015. On Friday, while working in the laboratory on my Lenovo, I decided to take a little break from my routine and Google something like that. […]

Yurchik - a small but formidable mutant (n.-f. story)

1. - Yurchik, get up! It's time to go to school. Mom shook her son. Then she turned on her side and grabbed her wrist to look at you, but Yurchik escaped and turned over to the other side. - I do not want to go to school. - Get up, otherwise you'll be late. Realizing that he would still have to go to school, Yurchik lay still for a little while, then turned and […]

The code of the industrial CRM/BPM/ERP system BGERP has been opened

The enterprise resource planning system, business process management and organization of interaction with clients BGERP has been transferred to the category of free software. The code is written in Java and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Open source is intended to simplify the distribution of solutions, as well as the interaction between customers and contractors. In the near future, the main developer of the project will be working on it full time. The project was originally […]

FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE

The FreeBSD development team has released FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE, the second release in the stable/12 branch. Some of the new features in the base system: Imported BearSSL code. LLVM components (clang, llvm, lld, lldb and libc++) have been updated to version 8.0.1. OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1d. The libomp library has been moved to base. Added trim(8) command to force cleanup of unused blocks on SSDs. Added option to sh(1) […]