Author: ProHoster

An attack on front-end-backend systems that allows you to break into third-party requests

Details of a new attack on sites using a front-end-back-end model, for example, working through content delivery networks, balancers or proxies, have been revealed. The attack allows, by sending certain requests, to wedge into the contents of other requests processed in the same thread between the frontend and backend. The proposed method was successfully used to organize an attack that made it possible to intercept the authentication parameters of users of the PayPal service, which paid […]

LibreOffice 6.3 office suite release

The Document Foundation presented the release of the office suite LibreOffice 6.3. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS, as well as an edition for deploying the online version in Docker. Key innovations: Writer and Calc performance has been significantly improved. Loading and saving some types of documents is up to 10 times faster than the previous release. Especially […]

Fight of two yokozuna

There are less than 8 hours left before sales of new AMD EPYC™ Rome processors begin. In this article, we decided to recall how the history of the rivalry between the two largest CPU manufacturers began. The world's first 8008-bit commercially available processor was the Intel® i1972, released in 200. The processor had a clock frequency of 10 kHz, was made using 10000 micron (XNUMX nm) technology […]

Safety Helms

The gist of the story about the most popular package manager for Kubernetes could be depicted using an emoji: the box is Helm (this is the most appropriate thing in the latest Emoji release); lock - security; the little man is the solution to the problem. In reality, everything will be a little more complicated, and the story is full of technical details about how to make Helm safe. […]

Intern Cheat Sheet: Google Interview Problem Solving Step by Step

Last year, I spent the last couple of months preparing for an interview for an internship at Google (Google Internship). Everything went well: I got both a job and great experience. Now, two months after my internship, I want to share the document I used to prepare for interviews. For me it was something like a cheat sheet before the exam. But the process […]

LibreOffice 6.3 release

The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3. Writer Writer table cells can now be set to have a background color from the Tables toolbar Index/Table of Contents updates can now be undone and the update does not clear the list of steps to undo Copying tables from Calc to existing Writer tables has been improved: only cells visible in Calc are copied and pasted Page background is now […]

Zhabogram 2.0 - transport from Jabber to Telegram

Zhabogram is a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber network (XMPP) to the Telegram network, written in Ruby. Successor to tg4xmpp. Ruby dependencies >= 1.9 xmpp4r == 0.5.6 tdlib-ruby == 2.0 with compiled tdlib == 1.3 Features Authorization in an existing Telegram account Synchronization of the chat list with the roster Synchronization of contact statuses with the roster Adding and deleting Telegram contacts VCard support with [... ]

EA adds seven new games to Origin Access library

Electronic Arts announced an update to its set of free games for Origin Access subscribers. According to the announcement on the developer’s website, the service’s library will be replenished with seven new projects. One of them will be the role-playing game Vampyr, which EA says is one of the most popular requests among players. Premium subscription users (Origin Access Premier) will receive a separate bonus. They will be given access […]

The number of 5G subscribers in South Korea is growing rapidly

Data released by South Korea's Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology shows that the popularity of 5G networks in the country is growing rapidly. The first commercial fifth-generation networks began operating in South Korea at the beginning of April this year. These services provide data transfer speeds of several gigabits per second. It is reported that as of the end of June, South Korean mobile operators […]

Samsung begins mass production of 100-layer 3D NAND and promises 300-layer

With a fresh press release, Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass production of 3D NAND with more than 100 layers. The highest possible configuration allows for chips with 136 layers, which marks a new milestone on the path to denser 3D NAND flash memory. The lack of a clear memory configuration hints that the chip with more than 100 layers is assembled from two […]

LG will show a smartphone with an additional screen at IFA 2019

LG has released an original video (see below) with an invitation to a presentation that will be held during the upcoming IFA 2019 exhibition (Berlin, Germany). The video shows a smartphone running a retro-style game. In it, the character moves through a maze, and at some point a second screen becomes available, appearing in the side part. Thus, LG makes it clear that […]

My third day with Haiku: the big picture is starting to emerge

TL;DR: Haiku has the potential to be a great open source desktop operating system. I really want this, but there are still a lot of fixes needed. I've been learning Haiku, a surprisingly good operating system, for two days. Now is the third day, and I like this operating system so much that I am constantly thinking: how can I make it an operating system for every day? In respect of […]