Author: ProHoster

How to use a simple utility to find vulnerabilities in program code

Graudit supports many programming languages ​​and allows you to integrate codebase security testing directly into the development process. Source: Unsplash (Markus Spiske) Testing is an important part of the software development lifecycle. There are many types of testing, each of them solves its own problem. Today I want to talk about finding security issues in code. Obviously, in today's realities […]

Introduction to Tanzu Mission Control

Today we want to talk about VMware Tanzu, a new line of products and services that was announced during last year's VMWorld conference. On the agenda is one of the most interesting tools: Tanzu Mission Control. Caution: there are extremely many images under the cut. What is Mission Control According to the company itself in its blog, the main task of VMware Tanzu Mission Control […]

Dell PowerEdge T40 Compact Entry Server Video Review

The PowerEdge T40 continues Dell's line of affordable, compact entry-level servers. Externally, it is a small “tower” with characteristic elements of Dell’s corporate design, more like a regular PC. Inside is a small single-socket board for entry-level Intel Xeon E. Moreover, the Dell PowerEdge T40 is truly a product for business, and not an ordinary PC in a slightly unusual […]

NVIDIA finally absorbed Mellanox Technologies, renaming it to NVIDIA Networking

Last weekend, NVIDIA renamed its acquired Mellanox Technologies to NVIDIA Networking. Let us recall that the deal to acquire telecommunications equipment manufacturer Mellanox Technologies was completed back in April of this year. NVIDIA announced its plans to acquire Mellanox Technologies in March 2019. After a series of negotiations, the parties came to an agreement. The transaction amount was $7 billion. […]

Release of the Nitrux 1.3.2 distribution, moving from systemd to OpenRC

The release of the Nitrux 1.3.2 distribution kit, built on the Ubuntu package base and KDE technologies, is available. The distribution develops its own desktop, NX Desktop, which is an add-on to the KDE Plasma user environment. To install additional applications, a system of self-contained AppImages packages and its own NX Software Center are being promoted. The boot image size is 3.2 GB. The project's developments are being distributed [...]

Firefox 80.0.1 update. Testing the new address bar design

A maintenance release of Firefox 80.0.1 has been published, which fixes the following issues: A performance issue in Firefox 80 when processing new intermediate CA certificates has been fixed. Fixed crashes related to GPU resets. Problems with text rendering on some sites using WebGL have been resolved (for example, the problem appears in Yandex Maps). Fixed problems with the downloads.download() API causing […]

Release of Protox 1.6, the Tox client for mobile platforms

An update has been published for Protox, a mobile application for exchanging messages between users without a server, implemented based on the Tox protocol (c-toxcore). This update is aimed at improving the client and its use. Currently only the Android platform is supported. The project is looking for iOS developers to port the application to Apple smartphones. The program is an alternative to Tox clients Antox and Trifa. Project code […]

One of Chromium's features puts a huge load on root DNS servers

The Chromium browser, the burgeoning open-source parent of Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge, has received significant backlash for a well-intentioned feature: it checks to see if the user's ISP is "stealing" non-existent domain query results. Intranet Redirect Detector, which creates fake requests for random "domains" that are statistically unlikely to exist, is responsible for about half of the total traffic received by […]

August 2020 in Belarus in terms of data

Source REUTERS / Vasily Fedosenko Hello, Habr. 2020 is turning out to be eventful. In Belarus, the scenario of a color revolution is flourishing. I propose to abstract from emotions and try to look at the available data on color revolutions from the point of view of data. Consider the possible success factors, as well as the economic consequences of such revolutions. Perhaps there will be a lot of controversy. To whom it is interesting — I ask under kat. Note. Vicki: At […]

6. Check Point SandBlast Agent Management Platform. FAQ. Free testing

Welcome to the sixth article that concludes our series on the Check Point SandBlast Agent Management Platform. As part of the cycle, we covered the main aspects of deploying and administering the SandBlast Agent using the Management Platform. In this article, we will try to answer the most popular questions related to the Management Platform solution and tell you how to test the SandBlast Agent […]

Identification of users by browsing history in the browser

Mozilla employees have published the results of a study on the possibility of identifying users based on a profile of visits in the browser, which can be visible to third parties and websites. An analysis of 52 thousand browsing profiles provided by Firefox users who took part in the experiment showed that preferences in visiting sites are characteristic of each user and are constant. The uniqueness of the obtained browsing history profiles was 99%. At […]