Author: Yuri Gagarin

How Quarkus Combines MicroProfile and Spring

Hello everyone, and welcome to the third post in the Quarkus series! When developing Java microservices, it is often considered that Eclipse MicroProfile and Spring Boot are separate and independent APIs. By default, programmers tend to use the APIs they are already familiar with, as learning new frameworks and runtime components takes a lot of time. Today we […]

Wireless Access Point vs Router: What Are the Differences?

At 9:00 AM: You are holding a video conference in the office via your laptop. 9:00 PM: You are watching a live stream on your mobile phone at home. Wait a minute, have you ever wondered what wireless devices are operating on your seamless network? Of course, you've heard people around you mention routers from time to time. What about wireless access points? […]

Release of GhostBSD 20.04

The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 20.04 distribution is now available, built on the TrueOS platform and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC initialization system and the ZFS file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using a custom installer ginstall written in Python). Bootable images are available for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). […]

Release of Parrot 4.9 distribution featuring a selection of security testing tools.

The release of the Parrot 4.9 distribution is now available, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a collection of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis, and reverse engineering. Several ISO images are offered for download with the MATE environment (full 3.9 GB and lightweight 1.7 GB) and with the KDE desktop (2 GB). The Parrot distribution is positioned as a portable lab with the environment […]

VisOpSys 0.9

Quietly and unobtrusively, version 0.9 of the amateur Visopsys (Visual Operating System) system, written by a single person (Andy McLaughlin), has been released. New features include: Updated appearance Enhanced networking capabilities and related programs Software packaging/loading/installation/uninstallation infrastructure with an online repository Support for HTTP, XML and HTML libraries, and support for some C streams […]

PostgreSQL and JDBC, we squeeze every ounce. Vladimir Sitnikov

I would like to present a transcript of Vladimir Sitnikov's early 2016 report 'PostgreSQL and JDBC: extracting every ounce of performance.' Good day! My name is Vladimir Sitnikov. I have been working at NetCracker for 10 years, primarily focusing on performance. Everything related to Java, everything connected to SQL – that’s what I love. And today I will discuss […]

Security Specialist on Xiaomi Smartphones: "This is a backdoor with phone features"

Reuters has published a warning article stating that the Chinese giant Xiaomi collects personal data from millions of people regarding their online activities and device usage. "This is a backdoor with phone functionality," joked Gabi Cirlig about his new Xiaomi smartphone. This experienced cybersecurity researcher spoke to Forbes after discovering that […]

Release of Redis DBMS 6.0

The release of Redis 6.0, classified as a NoSQL database system, has been prepared. Redis offers features similar to Memcached for storing data in key/value format, enhanced by support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to execute Lua scripts on the server side. The project code is distributed under the BSD license. Additional modules are offered with extended […]

Microsoft has opened its implementation of the QUIC protocol used in HTTP/3

Microsoft has announced the open sourcing of the MsQuic library implementing the QUIC network protocol. The code is written in C and distributed under the MIT license. The library is cross-platform and can be used not only on Windows but also on Linux with Schannel or OpenSSL for TLS 1.3. Future support for other platforms is planned. The library is based on the code […]

An updated version of Snoop Project V1.1.9 has been released

The Snoop Project is a forensic OSINT tool that searches for nicknames in public data. Snoop is a fork of Sherlock, with several improvements and changes: The Snoop database is several times larger than the combined databases of Sherlock + Spiderfoot + Namechk. Snoop has fewer false positives than Sherlock, a common issue with all similar tools (example comparison Websites: Ebay; […]

Google will begin blocking spam extensions in the Chrome Web Store

Google has warned about tightening rules for publishing extensions in the Chrome Web Store to combat spam. Developers must comply with the new requirements by August 27, or their extensions will be removed from the store. The store, which contains over 200,000 extensions, has become a target for spammers and scammers who have started publishing low-quality and […]

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