Author: ProHoster

Conference for fans of the DevOps approach

We are, of course, talking about DevOpsConf. If you don’t go into details, then on September 30 and October 1 we will hold a conference on combining the processes of development, testing and operation, and if you go into details, please, under cat. As part of the DevOps approach, all parts of the technological development of a project are intertwined, occur in parallel and influence each other. Of particular importance here is the creation [...]

Network for small business on Cisco equipment. Part 1

Greetings, dear Habro residents and random guests. In this series of articles we will talk about building a simple network for a company that is not too demanding on its IT infrastructure, but at the same time has the need to provide its employees with a high-quality Internet connection, access to shared file resources, and providing employees with VPN access to the workplace and [...]

New backdoor attacks users of torrent services

International antivirus company ESET warns of a new malware that threatens users of torrent sites. The malware is called GoBot2/GoBotKR. It is distributed under the guise of various games and applications, pirated copies of films and TV series. After downloading such content, the user receives seemingly harmless files. However, in reality they contain malicious software. The malware is activated after pressing [...]

Mysterious Nokia smartphone with 48-megapixel camera "lit up" on the Web

Online sources have obtained live photographs of a mysterious Nokia smartphone, which HMD Global is allegedly preparing for release. The device captured in the photographs is designated TA-1198 and codenamed daredevil. As you can see in the photographs, the smartphone is equipped with a display with a small teardrop-shaped cutout for the front camera. In the rear part there is a multi-module camera with elements organized in the form of [...]

Valve gives away 5 additional games to 2019 Steam Grand Prix contestants

Valve donated 5 thousand games to participants of the 2019 Grand Prix competition, timed to coincide with the summer sale on Steam. The developers randomly selected 5 thousand people who received one game from their wish list. So the company tried to compensate for the confusion that arose during the competition. Developers are having problems calculating bonuses for the Steam Summer Sale icon. The company noticed that […]

A third of pre-orders for Cyberpunk 2077 on PC came from GOG.com

Pre-orders for Cyberpunk 2077 were opened along with the announcement of the release date at E3 2019. The PC version of the game appeared in three stores at once - Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG.com. The latter is owned by CD Projekt itself, and therefore it has published some statistics regarding pre-purchases on its own service. Company representatives stated: “Did you know that the preliminary […]

Warface banned 118 thousand cheaters in the first half of 2019

Mail.ru company shared its successes in the fight against dishonest players in the shooter Warface. According to published information, in the first two quarters of 2019, developers banned more than 118 thousand accounts for using cheats. Despite the impressive number of bans, their number decreased by 39% compared to the same period last year. Then the company blocked 195 thousand accounts. […]

Linux 5.2 kernel release

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.2. Among the most noticeable changes: Ext4 operating mode is case-insensitive, separate system calls for mounting the file system, drivers for GPU Mali 4xx/ 6xx/7xx, the ability to handle changes in sysctl values ​​in BPF programs, device-mapper module dm-dust, protection against attacks MDS, Sound Open Firmware support for DSP, […]

Linux 5.2 kernel release

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.2. Among the most noticeable changes: Ext4 operating mode is case-insensitive, separate system calls for mounting the file system, drivers for GPU Mali 4xx/ 6xx/7xx, the ability to handle changes in sysctl values ​​in BPF programs, device-mapper module dm-dust, protection against attacks MDS, Sound Open Firmware support for DSP, […]

International conference LVEE 2019 will be held near Minsk in August

On August 22-25, the 15th international conference of free software developers and users “Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe” will take place near Minsk (Belarus). To participate in the event you must register on the conference website. Applications for participation and abstracts of reports are accepted until August 4. The official languages ​​of the conference are Russian, Belarusian and English. The purpose of the LVEE is to exchange experience between specialists in [...]

Fixed substitution of malicious code in the Strong_password Ruby package

In the release of the Strong_password 25 gem package published on June 0.7, a malicious change (CVE-2019-13354) was identified that downloads and executes external code controlled by an unknown attacker located on the Pastebin service. The total number of downloads of the project is 247 thousand, and version 0.6 is about 38 thousand. For the malicious version, the number of downloads is listed as 537, but it is not clear how accurate this is, given the […]

Spotify Lite app officially launched in 36 countries, no Russia again

Spotify has continued to test a lightweight version of its mobile client since the middle of last year. Thanks to it, the developers intend to expand their presence in regions where the Internet connection speed is low and users predominantly own entry-level and mid-level mobile devices. Spotify Lite has recently been officially available on the Google Play digital content store in 36 countries, with […]