Hello everyone! This article will focus on reviewing the VPN functionality in the Sophos XG Firewall product. In the previous article, we discussed how to obtain this home network protection solution for free with a full license. Today, we'll talk about the VPN features built into Sophos XG. I'll try to explain what this product can do, and I'll also provide examples of IPSec configuration […]
LinkedIn has released DataHub 0.5.0, a system for cataloging and tracking relationships between various data within enterprises. DataHub is of interest to a wide range of professionals working with data, including Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Security Officers, etc. The system was previously opened by LinkedIn and incorporates years of the company's experience in data structuring and information asset management. […]
The latest release of Chrome 86 and the stable release of Chromium has come out. Key changes in Chrome 86 include protection against the unsafe submission of input forms on pages loaded via HTTPS but sending data via HTTP. Blocking of unsafe downloads (http) for executable files has been supplemented by blocking unsafe downloads of archives (zip, iso, etc.) and displaying warnings for unsafe document downloads (docx, pdf, and […]
In the last decade, significant progress has been made in the development of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools. The advancement of development and operations (DevOps) integration technologies has led to a rapid increase in the demand for CI/CD tools. Existing solutions are constantly improving, striving to keep up with the times, and new versions are being released, as the world of control […]
Today we will discuss how to better store data in a world where fifth-generation networks, genome scanners, and autonomous vehicles produce more data in a day than all of humanity generated before the industrial revolution. Our world is generating more and more information. Some of it is fleeting and lost just as quickly as it is collected. Other parts need to be stored longer […]
This article's translation has been prepared in anticipation of the launch of the "Administrator Linux.Basic" course. A semaphore is a mechanism that allows competing processes and threads to work with shared resources and helps solve various synchronization issues such as race conditions, deadlocks, and incorrect thread behavior. To address these problems, the kernel includes tools such as mutexes, semaphores, signals, and barriers. […]
THQ Nordic and Mimimi Games have announced the release of a second expansion titled Money for the Vultures – Part 2: Five Steps Ahead for the real-time strategy game Desperados III as part of the season pass. It continues the story from the first expansion, Money for the Vultures Part I: Late to the Party. The gang of mercenaries returns to Louisiana to […]
The DXVK 1.7.2 release has been formed, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, operating through API call translation to Vulkan. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.1 are required, such as Mesa RADV 19.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 distribution (the announcement of the new version was made only a week ago on the portal access.redhat.com; it has not appeared in the mailing list or in the press release section). The installation images of RHEL 7.9 are available for download only to registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal and are prepared for x86_64, IBM POWER7+, POWER8 (big […]
Do you love KPIs? Probably not. It's hard to find someone who hasn't been affected by KPIs in one way or another: some have failed to meet targets, others faced subjective assessments, and some worked, left, but never learned what those very KPIs were, which were even feared to be mentioned in the company. And […]
Containers have become the preferred method for packaging an application with all its software and operating system dependencies, and then delivering them across various environments. This article explores different ways to containerize a Spring Boot application: creating a Docker image using a Dockerfile, building an OCI image from source code using Cloud-Native Buildpack, and optimizing the image at runtime by […]
Google has announced the start of replacing its version of the QUIC protocol with the variant developed in the IETF specifications. The variant of QUIC used in Chrome differs in some details from the version in the IETF specifications. Meanwhile, Chrome supports both versions of the protocol, but has still used its version of QUIC by default. As of today, 25% of users of the stable […]