Some users of RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 have encountered issues after installing yesterday's GRUB2 bootloader update that addresses a critical vulnerability. Problems manifest as an inability to boot after the update installation, including on systems without UEFI Secure Boot. On some systems (for example, HPE ProLiant XL230k Gen1 without UEFI Secure Boot), the issue also occurs with […]
IBM has announced the release of the source code for the FHE toolkit (IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption), implementing a fully homomorphic encryption system for processing data in encrypted form. FHE enables the creation of services for confidential computing, where data is processed in encrypted form and does not appear in any open form at any stage. The output is also generated in an encrypted state. The code is written in […]
As New Year's approached, children across the country had sent letters to Santa Claus or made wishes for gifts, and the main performer of these wishes — one of the major retailers — was preparing for the peak of sales. In December, the load on its data center multiplies several times. Therefore, the company decided to upgrade the data center and deploy several dozen new servers instead of […]
We will use the k8s-native deployment controller Argo Rollouts and GitLab CI to run Canary deployment in Kubernetes https://unsplash.com/photos/V41PulGL1z0 Articles in this series Canary Deployment in Kubernetes #1: GitLab CI (This article) Canary Deployment using Istio Canary Deployment using Jenkins-X Istio Flagger Canary Deployment We hope you read the first part, where we briefly explained what Canary Deployments are. […]
At Dentsu Aegis Network, we conduct an annual Digital Society Index (DSI) research study. This is our global research covering 22 countries, including Russia, focused on the digital economy and its impact on society. This year, we couldn't overlook COVID-19 and decided to explore how the pandemic has influenced digitalization. As a result, the DSI […]
The analytical company RedMonk has published a new version of its programming language rankings, based on a combination of GitHub popularity and discussion activity on Stack Overflow. Among the most notable changes is Rust entering the top 20 most popular languages, pushing Haskell out of the chart. Compared to the previous edition released six months ago, C++ has also moved up to fifth […]
Developers of the Redox operating system, which is written using Rust and based on the microkernel concept, have announced the implementation of application debugging capabilities using the GDB debugger. To use GDB, you need to uncomment the lines with gdbserver and gnu-binutils in the filesystem.toml file and launch the gdb-redox layer that will start its own gdbserver and connect it to gdb via IPC. An alternative option involves running a separate […]
The Apache Foundation has released its financial report for the fiscal year 2020 (from May 1, 2019, to April 30, 2020). The total assets for the reporting period amounted to $3.5 million, which is $300,000 less than in the fiscal year 2019. The amount of equity decreased by $281,000, totaling $2.16 million. Most of the funds were obtained […]
Note to translators: The author of this article (Luc Perkins) is a developer advocate at CNCF, the home for various Open Source projects like Linkerd, SMI (Service Mesh Interface), and Kuma (by the way, have you also wondered why Istio is not on this list?). Once again, he attempts to bring a better understanding of the trendy hype called 'service mesh' to the DevOps community […]
We continue to explore the new Check Point Management Platform cloud platform for managing endpoint protection software — SandBlast Agent. In the previous article, we described the main components of SandBlast Agent, got acquainted with the architecture of Check Point Infinity, and registered the SandBlast Agent Management Platform application on the Infinity Portal. Today, we will take a closer look at the web interface of the agent management system — this article […]
Welcome to a new series of articles dedicated to protecting personal workstations using the Check Point SandBlast Agent solution and the new cloud management system — SandBlast Agent Management Platform. We discussed SandBlast Agent in articles regarding malware analysis and the features of the new E83.10 version, and we have long promised to publish a comprehensive series of articles on deployment and administration […]
FreeBSD has implemented changes that allow for lockless lookup operations in VFS. Optimizations have been made for the TmpFS, UFS, and ZFS file systems, but do not yet extend to ACL, Capsicum, access to file descriptors, symbolic links, and ".." in paths. For the specified capabilities, the old file determination mechanism is being rolled back. A test conducted on TmpFS measured […]