Author: ProHoster

The Central Bank will introduce punishment for banks for a low level of protection against cyber threats

Based on the already existing instruction 4336-U, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will formulate requirements for the quality of protection of banks from cyber attacks. By the end of 2019, each Russian bank will receive an appropriate “risk profile” characteristic in terms of information security. The concept of a risk profile was introduced in the strategic document “Main Directions for the Development of Information Security in the Credit and Financial Sphere of the Russian Federation”, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank completed work on it last […]

Radeon Driver 19.9.2 Brings Borderlands 3 and Image Sharpening Support to Older Graphics Cards

To coincide with the launch of Borderlands 3 from Gearbox Software, AMD introduced its second September driver - Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.9.2. As the manufacturer promises, by installing this driver, users will receive a 5700% increase in performance on the Radeon RX 3 video card in Borderlands 16 compared to Radeon 19.9.1 (tests were conducted in DirectX 12 mode at maximum quality settings […]

Apple Event Live Stream - iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone 11 Unveiled

Attention! Wait. The broadcast is loading... On September 10 at 20:11 Moscow time, Apple will hold a presentation at which it will traditionally present its new iPhone 2019 smartphones. Of course, there is no complete certainty regarding the naming of the new Apple devices, but it is expected that at least two new smartphones will be presented. Expectations for the 13 iPhone include a new AXNUMX hardware platform with […]

Nokia and NTT DoCoMo use 5G and AI to improve skills

Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nokia, Japanese telecommunications operator NTT DoCoMo and industrial automation company Omron have agreed to test 5G technologies at their factories and production sites. The testing will test the ability to use 5G and artificial intelligence to provide instructions and monitor worker performance in real time. “Machine operators will be monitored by […]

Release of the GNOME 3.34 User Environment

After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment is presented. Compared to the last release, about 24 thousand changes were made, in the implementation of which 777 developers took part. To quickly evaluate the capabilities of GNOME 3.34, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and Ubuntu have been prepared. Key innovations: In overview mode, it is now possible to group application icons into folders. For creating […]

Apple Arcade trailer introduces the public to many of the service's 100+ games

During the recent presentation of the iPhone 11 and other products of the Cupertino giant, the release date of the Apple Arcade gaming service was announced - it will become available on September 19 and will cost Russian users 199 rubles per month. For this amount, players will have access to more than 100 new projects, each of which can be played on […]

Google paid the 700 thousandth fine of Roskomnadzor

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reports that IT giant Google has paid the fine imposed on the company in our country. We are talking about violations related to failure to fulfill obligations to stop issuing information about information resources, access to which is limited on the territory of Russia. Roskomnadzor specialists found that the American search engine […]

Assessing Permission Request Abuse in Flashlight Apps for Android

The Avast blog published the results of a study of the permissions requested by applications presented in the Google Play catalog with the implementation of flashlights for the Android platform. In total, 937 flashlights were found in the catalogue, of which elements of malicious or unwanted activity were identified in seven, and the rest can be considered “clean”. 408 applications requested 10 or fewer credentials, and 262 applications required […]

Tom Hunter's Diary: "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Signing delays are common for any large company. An exception was the agreement between Tom Hunter and one network pet store for thorough pentesting. We had to check the site, and the internal network, and even a working Wi-Fi. It is not surprising that the hands were itching before all the formalities were settled. Well, just scan the site just in case, it is unlikely […]

Manuscripts do not burn: the secret to the durability of the Dead Sea Scrolls dating back to 250 BC

In modern museums and archives, ancient texts, manuscripts and books are stored in certain conditions, which allows them to preserve their original appearance for future generations. The most striking representative of incorruptible manuscripts are considered to be the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran manuscripts), first found back in 1947 and dating back to 408 BC. e. Some of the scrolls survive only in fragments, but there are […]

iOS Creative: Drawing

Hello! In the last article I reviewed the capabilities of iOS for composing music, and today’s topic is drawing. I'll tell you about Apple Pencil and other applications for working with raster and vector graphics, pixel art and other types of drawing. We will talk about applications for iPad, but some of them are also available for iPhone. iPad has become interesting [...]