Hi all! Everyone’s favorite portal had many different articles on certification in the field of information security, so I’m not going to claim originality and uniqueness of the content, but I would still really like to share my experience of obtaining GIAC (Global Information Assurance Company) certification in the field of industrial cybersecurity. Since the appearance of such terrible words as Stuxnet, Duqu, Shamoon, Triton, […]
Introduction On September 1, 2011, a file named ~DN1.tmp was sent from Hungary to the VirusTotal website. At that time, the file was detected as malicious by only two antivirus engines - BitDefender and AVIRA. This is how the story of Duqu began. Looking ahead, it must be said that the Duqu malware family was named after the name of this file. However, this file is completely independent […]
At the beginning of the school year, we decided to talk about one of the exhibits from our collection, the image of which remains an important memory for thousands of schoolchildren in the 1980s. The eight-bit Yamaha KUVT2 is a Russified version of the MSX standard household computer, launched in 1983 by the Japanese branch of Microsoft. Such, in fact, gaming platforms based on Zilog Z80 microprocessors have captured Japan, Korea and China, but almost […]
From the translator: I found a question on Quora: What program or code can be called the most complex ever written? The answer of one of the participants was so good that it is quite worthy of an article. Fasten your seat belts. The most complex program in history was written by a team of people whose names we do not know. This program is a computer worm. The worm was written, judging by [...]
Cybercriminals' attempts to threaten IT systems are constantly evolving. For example, techniques we've seen this year include injecting malicious code into thousands of e-commerce sites to steal personal data and using LinkedIn to install spyware. What's more, these techniques work: losses from cybercrime reached $2018 billion in 45. […]
The conference aims to establish personal contacts between specialists, discuss prospects for the development of free software, and initiate new projects. The conference is held on the basis of the Kaluga IT cluster. Leading free software developers from Russia and other countries will take part in the work. Source: linux.org.ru
A year after the last major release, the Thunderbird 68 email client was released, based on the Firefox 68-ESR code base. Major changes: The main application menu is now in the form of a single panel, with icons and separators [pic]; The settings dialog has been moved to the [pic] tab; Added the ability to assign colors in the window for writing messages and tags, not limited to the standard palette [pic]; Finalized […]
KDE has greatly upgraded the console! One of the most significant changes in KDE Applications 19.08 was the update to the KDE terminal emulator, Konsole. Now it is able to separate tabs (horizontally and vertically) into any number of separate panels that can be freely moved between each other, creating the workspace of your dreams! Of course, we are still far from a full replacement for tmux, but KDE in […]
Long story short, Daniel Robbins presented the next release, welcome, Funtoo Linux 1.4. Features: the meta-repo is based on a Gentoo Linux slice from 21.06.2019/9.2.0/2.32 (with backports of security patches); base system: gcc-2.29, binutils-0.41, glibc-4.19.37, openrc-19.1; debian-sources-lts-430.26; updates in the OpenGL subsystem: libglvnd (an alternative to eselect opengl), mesa-3.32 (vulkan support), nvidia-drivers-5.16; Gnome XNUMX, KDE Plasma XNUMX; as an alternative to manual installation […]
At the end of May, a re-release of Assassin's Creed III was released on the Nintendo Switch, and more recently, thanks to one of the retailers, information about Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered for the hybrid platform was leaked. During the latest broadcast, publisher Ubisoft confirmed the release of Assassin's Creed Rebel Collection for Switch. This collection includes both […]
Oracle has published a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.0.12, which contains 17 fixes. Major changes in release 6.0.12: In additions for guest systems with Linux, the problem with the inability of an unprivileged user to create files inside shared directories has been resolved; In additions for guest systems with Linux, the compatibility of vboxvideo.ko with the kernel module assembly system has been improved; Build problems fixed […]
After five months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 243 is presented. Among the innovations, we can note the integration into PID 1 of a low-memory handler in the system, support for attaching your own BPF programs for filtering unit traffic, numerous new options for systemd-networkd, a bandwidth monitoring mode network interfaces, using 64-bit PID numbers instead of 22-bit by default on 16-bit systems, switching to […]
