Author: ProHoster

Spider for a web or central node of a distributed network

What to look for when choosing a VPN router for a distributed network? And what features should it have? This is what our ZyWALL VPN1000 review is dedicated to. Introduction Until now, most of our publications have been devoted to junior VPN devices for accessing the network from peripheral facilities. For example, to link the various branches to the headquarters, to access the Network of small independent […]

Apache Airflow: Making ETL Easier

Hi, I'm Dmitry Logvinenko - Data Engineer of the Analytics Department of the Vezet group of companies. I will tell you about a wonderful tool for developing ETL processes - Apache Airflow. But Airflow is so versatile and multifaceted that you should take a closer look at it even if you are not involved in data flows, but have a need to periodically launch any processes and monitor their execution. […]

Tesla Megapack 800 MWh battery pack to power world's largest data center

Switch, the operator of The Citadel Campus data center, is partnering with Capital Dynamics to invest $1,3 billion to build a solar and battery system. The system will be very large-scale, the total capacity of solar power plants will be 555 MW, and the total capacity of the Tesla Megapack “mega-accumulator” will be 800 MWh. The solar panels will be supplied by First Solar. According to partners, systems […]

Chip maker reveals Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War release date

A few months ago, many insiders said that the next Call of Duty would be released under the subtitle Black Ops Cold War. Since then, more and more evidence of this leak has appeared on the Internet. And now Doritos has revealed the name of the game and a possible release date. Insider TheGamingRevolution published photos of Doritos promotional materials that he received from an anonymous source. On them […]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning: a wave of bans awaits cheaters in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone

Infinity Ward studio continues to fight against cheaters in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone. A new wave of bans is coming, and the developer told which users should expect their account to be blocked. Infinity Ward clarified that those who tamper with game data or use services that do this will receive a block. “Please do not use unauthorized third-party […]

The next We Happy Few game will have twice as many people working on it

Canadian studio Compulsion Games was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 and integrated into Xbox Game Studios ahead of the release of action RPG We Happy Few. The developers' next project is kept secret and requires much more human resources. LaPresse has reported that Compulsion Games is moving from its current offices in Saint-Henri, Montreal, to Westmount. […]

Xen hypervisor 4.14 release

After eight months of development, the free hypervisor Xen 4.14 has been released. Companies such as Alibaba, Amazon, AMD, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, EPAM Systems, Huawei and Intel took part in the development of the new release. The release of updates for the Xen 4.14 branch will last until January 24, 2022, and the publication of vulnerability fixes until July 24, 2023. Key changes in Xen […]

Release of Telegram Desktop 2.2

A new release of Telegram Desktop 2.2 is available for Linux, Windows and macOS. The Telegram client software code is written using the Qt library and distributed under the GPLv3 license. In the new version: Added the ability to quickly switch between several Telegram accounts linked to different phone numbers. Added support for storing and sharing files of any type, up to […]

About 4000 public Elasticsearch and MongoDB databases were removed during the Meow attack

The Meow attack continues to gain momentum, during which unknown attackers destroy data in publicly accessible, unprotected Elasticsearch and MongoDB installations. Isolated cases of cleaning (in total about 3% of all victims) were also recorded for unprotected databases based on Apache Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, Hadoop and Apache ZooKeeper. The attack is carried out through a bot that searches typical network ports of the DBMS. Studying […]

Introduction to smart contracts

In this article, we will look at what smart contracts are, what they are, get acquainted with different smart contract platforms, their features, and also discuss how they work and what advantages they can bring. This material will be very useful for readers who are not familiar enough with the topic of smart contracts, but want to get closer to understanding it. Regular contract vs. smart contract […]

How Europe is moving to open source software for government agencies

We are talking about the initiatives of Munich, Barcelona, ​​and also CERN. Photo by Tim Mossholder - Unsplash Munich again In public institutions in Munich, the transition to open source began more than 15 years ago. It is believed that the impetus for this was the termination of support for one of the most popular network operating systems. Back then, the city had two options: upgrade everything or migrate to Linux. […]

Podcast: quantum hacking and key distribution

The third edition was attended by Anton Kozubov, Head of the Theoretical Group of the Laboratory of Quantum Processes and Measurements. We discussed his work and the specifics of the industry. Audio version: Apple Podcasts Yandex.Music PodFM Google Podcasts YouTube. In the photo: Anton Kozubov A few words about the specifics of the industry Timecode — 00:16 dmitrykabanov: As far as I know, you deal with highly specialized topics. Anthony: […]