Author: ProHoster

KeePass v2.43

KeePass is a password manager that has been updated to version 2.43. What's New: Added tooltips for certain character sets in the password generator. Added the option “Remember password hiding settings in the main window” (Tools → Options → Advanced tab; option enabled by default). Added intermediate password quality level - yellow. When the URL override field in the dialog […]

Mozilla is testing a Private Network proxy service for Firefox

Mozilla has reversed the decision to shut down the Test Pilot program and introduced a new testing functionality - Private Network. Private Network allows you to establish a network connection through an external proxy service provided by Cloudflare. All traffic to the proxy server is transmitted encrypted, which allows the service to be used to provide protection when working on untrustworthy networks […]

Easier than it seems. 20

Due to popular demand, a continuation of the book “Simpler Than It Seems.” It turns out that almost a year has passed since the last publication. So that you don’t have to re-read past chapters, I made this linking chapter, which continues the plot and helps you quickly remember a summary of the previous parts. Sergei lay on the floor and looked at the ceiling. I was going to spend about five minutes like this, but it was already […]

Fuel monitoring for data center diesel generators - how to do it and why is it so important?

The quality of the power supply system is the most important indicator of the level of service of a modern data center. This is understandable: absolutely all the equipment necessary for the operation of the data center is powered by electricity. Without it, the servers, network, engineering systems and storage systems will stop functioning until the power supply is completely restored. We tell you what role diesel fuel and our system for controlling it […] play in the uninterrupted operation of the Linxdatacenter data center in St. Petersburg.

Photo of the day: space telescopes look at the Bode galaxy

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has published an image of the Bode Galaxy taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The Bode Galaxy, also known as M81 and Messier 81, is located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 12 million light-years away. This is a spiral galaxy with a pronounced structure. The galaxy was first discovered […]

IFA 2019: GOODRAM IRDM Ultimate X SSD PCIe 4.0

GOODRAM is demonstrating high-performance IRDM Ultimate X SSDs, designed for use in powerful desktop computers, at IFA 2019 in Berlin. Solutions made in the M.2 form factor use the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. The manufacturer talks about compatibility with the AMD Ryzen 3000 platform. The new products use Toshiba BiCS4 3D TLC NAND flash memory microchips and a Phison PS3111-S16 controller. […]

Varonis discovered a crypto-mining virus: our investigation

Our cybersecurity investigations team recently investigated a network that was almost entirely infected with a cryptomining virus at a mid-sized company. An analysis of the collected malware samples showed that a new modification of such viruses, called Norman, was found, using various methods of hiding its presence. Additionally, an interactive web shell has been discovered that may be related to […]

PoE at a distance of 200+ meters. Monitoring and automatic restart of PoE clients

In my practice, powering the device and getting a picture from it at a considerable distance from the switch turned out to be not the easiest task. Especially when networks extend from one piece of iron to several cameras at different distances. Any more or less complex device freezes periodically. Some things are less common, and some things are more frequent, and this is dogma. Most often this is solved... right... with this: And […]

DataLine Insight Brut Day, October 3, Moscow

Hi all! On October 3 at 14.00 we invite you to DataLine Insight Brut Day. We will tell you about the latest news and plans of the company for the coming year, including in connection with the deal with Rostelecom; new services and data centers; results of the investigation into the fire in the OST data center this summer. For whom We will be glad to see CIOs, system administrators, engineers and […]

Ubisoft boss on the future of Assassin's Creed: "Our goal is to fit Unity inside Odyssey"

Gamesindustry.biz spoke with Ubisoft publishing director Yves Guillemot. In the interview, we discussed the development of open-world games that the campaign is developing, touching on the cost of production of such projects and microtransactions. Journalists asked the director whether Ubisoft plans to return to creating smaller-scale works. Representatives of Gamesindustry.biz mentioned Assassin's Creed Unity, where […]

Gett appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service with a request to terminate the Yandex.Taxi deal on the takeover of the Lucky group of companies

The Gett company appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation with a request to prevent Yandex.Taxi from absorbing the Vezet group of companies. It includes taxi services “Vezyot”, “Leader”, Red Taxi and Fasten. The appeal states that the deal will lead to the dominance of Yandex.Taxi in the market and will limit natural competition. “We regard the deal as strictly negative for the market, creating insurmountable barriers to new investment […]

Video: a bad flight and a violent city in The Surge 2 cinematic trailer

IGN has shared an exclusive cinematic trailer for The Surge 2 from Deck 13 studio. It demonstrates the plot, the closed city in which the protagonist finds himself, battles and a huge monster. The beginning of the video shows the launch of a spaceship with people on board. The transport crashes due to a storm, and the main character, as the description says, comes to his senses in an abandoned […]