Google has announced that it is phasing in DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Chrome 85 Android users. The mode will be activated gradually, covering more and more users. Previously, Chrome 83 began enabling DNS-over-HTTPS for desktop users. DNS-over-HTTPS will be automatically activated for users whose settings include DNS providers that support this technology […]
The second release of the Fly-Pie project is presented, which develops an unusual implementation of a circular context menu that can be used to launch applications, open links and simulate hot keys. The menu offers cascading expandable elements connected to each other by dependency chains. An add-on for GNOME Shell has been prepared for download, supporting installation on GNOME 3.36 and tested on Ubuntu 20.04. To get acquainted with the techniques [...]
Test results for tools to identify unpatched vulnerabilities and identify security issues in isolated Docker container images have been published. The audit showed that 4 out of 6 known Docker image scanners contained critical vulnerabilities that made it possible to attack the scanner itself directly and achieve execution of its code on the system, in some cases (for example, when using Snyk) with root rights. For […]
Hey Habr! We at Reksoft translated the Feature Selection in Machine Learning article into Russian. We hope it will be useful to everyone who is not indifferent to the topic. In the real world, data isn't always as clean as business customers sometimes think. That is why data mining (data mining and data wrangling) is in demand. It helps identify missing meanings and patterns in structured […]
Greetings to all who continue to read the cycle about the new generation of NGFW Check Point of the SMB family (1500 series). In part 5, we covered the SMP solution (management portal for SMB gateways). Today I would like to talk about the Smart-1 Cloud portal, it positions itself as a solution based on SaaS Check Point, acts as a Management Server in the cloud, so it will […]
This article will discuss how to transfer mail between different servers using the IMAPSync utility through a primitive user interface. On the destination server, you must have a mailbox with the required login and password. Before using Imapsync, be sure to install it (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/#install). Due to the prohibition by the organization to use passwords from employee mailboxes in the script, we transfer the migration process to the user. For […]
Amazon has unveiled the first major release of its dedicated Linux distribution, Bottlerocket 1.0.0, designed to run isolated containers efficiently and securely. The distribution's tools and control components are written in Rust and distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. The project is being developed on GitHub and is available for participation by community members. The system deployment image is generated for x86_64 and […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the File Manager WordPress plugin, which has more than 700 thousand active installations, allowing arbitrary commands and PHP scripts to be executed on the server. The issue appears in File Manager releases 6.0 through 6.8 and is resolved in release 6.9. The File Manager plugin provides file management tools for the WordPress administrator, using the included […]
With this short post, I would like to dispel one misunderstanding related to the analysis of AWR databases running on Oracle Exadata. For almost 10 years, I have been constantly faced with the question: what is the contribution of Exadata Software to performance? Or with the use of newly formed words: to what extent does the work of a particular database “exdate”? Often this correct question, in my opinion, is given the wrong […]
This article is about how Linux graphics work and what components it consists of. It has many screenshots of various implementations of desktop environments. If you don't have much of a difference between KDE and GNOME, or if you do, but would like to know what other alternatives are, then this article is for you. It is an overview, and although it contains many […]
Hey Habr! Probably, each of us has such a file where we hide something useful and interesting for ourselves. Some links to articles, books, repositories, manuals. It can be bookmarks in the browser or even just open tabs left for later. Over time, all this swells, links stop opening, and most of the material simply becomes outdated. A […]
Today Xiaomi released a simplified version of the third generation Mi Walkie Talkie. Let us remember that the first iteration of the device was shown back in 2017. The cost of the new device, called Mi Walkie Talkie Lite, is only $18. The walkie-talkie boasts a transmission power of 3 W and a range of one to five kilometers in open space, and up to […]
