Author: ProHoster

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 […]

Qt Design Studio 1.3 release

The Qt project has released Qt Design Studio 1.3, a framework for designing user interfaces and developing graphical applications based on Qt. Qt Design Studio makes it easy for designers and developers to work together to create working prototypes of complex and scalable interfaces. Designers can only focus on the graphic design layout, while developers can focus on […]

PulseAudio 13.0 Sound Server Release

The release of the PulseAudio 13.0 sound server is presented, which acts as an intermediary between applications and various low-level sound subsystems, abstracting work with the hardware. PulseAudio allows you to control the volume and mixing of audio at the level of individual applications, organize the input, mixing and output of audio in the presence of several input and output channels or sound cards, allows you to change […]

Rikomagic R6: Android-based mini projector in the style of an old radio

A curious mini-projector is presented - a “smart” device Rikomagic R6, built on the Rockchip hardware platform and the Android 7.1.2 operating system. The gadget stands out for its design: it is stylized as a rare radio receiver with a large speaker and an external antenna. The optical unit is made in the form of a control knob. The novelty is capable of forming an image ranging in size from 15 to 300 inches diagonally from a distance of 0,5 […]

Oppo A9 (2020) unveiled with 6,5″ screen, 8GB RAM, 48MP camera and 5000mAh battery

Following rumors, Oppo has officially confirmed the launch of the A9 2020 smartphone in India on September 16th. The device, as previously reported, has a 6,5-inch screen with a drop-shaped notch, a 5000 mAh battery with support for reverse charging, and is based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 single-chip system with 8 GB of RAM. The rear quad camera is equipped with a main [...]

Photo of the Day: Low Surface Brightness Galaxy as Seen by Hubble

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presented another image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. This time, a rather curious object is captured - the low surface brightness galaxy UGC 695. It is located at a distance of approximately 30 million light years from us in the constellation Cetus (Cetus). Low surface brightness galaxies, […]

Quarterly sales of wearable devices almost doubled

International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated the size of the global market for wearable electronic devices in the second quarter of this year. It is reported that sales of gadgets almost doubled year on year - by 85,2%. The market volume in unit terms reached 67,7 million units. The greatest demand is for devices designed to be worn in the ears. These are different headsets and completely [...]

About the network model in games for beginners

For the last two weeks I've been working on the online engine for my game. Before this, I knew nothing at all about networking in games, so I read a lot of articles and did a lot of experiments to understand all the concepts and be able to write my own networking engine. In this guide, I would like to share with you various concepts that you […]

Ensuring reliable operation of Zextras Team in complex corporate networks

In the last article, we told you about Zextras Team, a solution that allows you to add corporate text and video chat functionality to Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open-Source Edition, as well as the ability to conduct video conferences with a large number of participants, without the need to use third-party services and without transferring any - data to the side. This use case is ideal for companies that have strictly [...]

Urgently update exim to 4.92 - there is an active infection

Colleagues who use Exim versions 4.87...4.91 on their mail servers - urgently update to version 4.92, having previously stopped Exim itself to avoid hacking through CVE-2019-10149. Several million servers around the world are potentially vulnerable, the vulnerability is rated as critical (CVSS 3.0 base score = 9.8/10). Attackers can run arbitrary commands on your server, in many cases from [...]

Patched Exim - patch again. Fresh Remote Command Execution in Exim 4.92 in one request

More recently, at the beginning of summer, there were massive calls to update Exim to version 4.92 due to the CVE-2019-10149 vulnerability (Urgently update Exim to 4.92 - there is an active infection / Sudo Null IT News). And recently it turned out that the Sustes malware decided to take advantage of this vulnerability. Now all those who urgently updated can “rejoice” again: on July 21, 2019, researcher Zerons discovered a critical vulnerability […]