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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Powered by ZeroTier. Practical Guide to Building Virtual Networks. Part 1

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Continuing the story about ZeroTier, from the theory presented in the article 'Intelligent Ethernet Switch for Planet Earth', I move on to practice, where: We will create and configure a private network controller We will create a virtual network We will configure and connect nodes to it We will check the network connectivity between them We will close access to the network controller’s GUI from outside Network Controller As previously mentioned, to create […]

Two-Factor Authentication in OpenVPN with Telegram Bot

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This article describes the configuration of an OpenVPN server to enable two-factor authentication using a Telegram bot that will send a confirmation request upon connection. OpenVPN is a widely recognized, free, open-source VPN server commonly used to provide secure access for employees to the organization’s internal resources. Typically, [authentication] is required for connecting to the VPN server.

Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 October 2018.

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It has been revealed that Microsoft will soon stop supporting the Windows 10 build released in October 2018 (version 1809). To keep the 'ten' up to date, the company releases massive updates for it twice a year. The update from October 2018 can certainly be considered the most unfortunate of them. And now, its support days are numbered. It's hard to describe how poorly this […]

Release of Firefox 73

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The release of the web browser Firefox 73 has taken place, as well as the mobile version Firefox 68.5 for the Android platform. Additionally, a long-term support update 68.5.0 has been formed. The Firefox 74 branch will soon enter the beta testing phase, with its release scheduled for March 10 (the project has switched to a 4-week development cycle). Key innovations: In the mode of accessing DNS over HTTPS […]

USB Raw Gadget is available, a Linux module for emulating USB devices.

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Andrey Konovalov from Google is developing a new USB Raw Gadget module that allows the emulation of USB devices in user space. A proposal to include this module in the main body of the Linux kernel is under review. The USB Raw Gadget is already being used by Google to simplify fuzzing testing of the kernel's USB stack using the syzkaller toolkit. The module adds a new programming interface to the kernel's subsystem […]

Andrei Konovalov from Google is developing a new USB Raw Gadget module,

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On February 12, 2020, the LTS version of the Ubuntu distribution was released. Also released were versions of the distribution with alternative desktop environments: Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.4 LTS, Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Kylin 18.04.4 LTS, and Xubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. Key improvements and innovations include the following: The kernel has been updated to version […]

Backblaze — Hard Drive Statistics for 2019

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As of December 31, 2019, we have 124,956 functional hard drives. Of these, 2,229 are boot drives and 122,658 contain data. In this review, we will examine the failure statistics among data hard drives. We will also look at the 12 and 14 TB versions of the disks and the new 16 TB ones, which we have been actively using since the beginning of the fourth quarter […]

The domain corp.com is up for sale. It poses a risk to hundreds of thousands of corporate computers running Windows.

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The data leak scheme through Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) during name collisions (in this case, a collision of the internal domain name with one of the new gTLDs, but the essence remains the same). Source: research from the University of Michigan, 2016 Mike O’Connor, one of the oldest investors in domain names, is putting the most dangerous and controversial lot from his collection up for sale: the domain corp.com for $1.7 […]

Release of Cryptsetup 2.3 with support for BitLocker encrypted partitions.

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The release of the Cryptsetup 2.3 utility suite has taken place, designed for configuring disk encryption on Linux using the dm-crypt module. It supports working with dm-crypt partitions, LUKS, LUKS2, loop-AES, and TrueCrypt with VeraCrypt extensions. Also included are the veritysetup and integritysetup utilities for configuring data integrity control mechanisms based on dm-verity and dm-integrity modules. A key improvement in the new […]

Release of the MATE 1.24 desktop environment, a fork of GNOME 2

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The release of the MATE 1.24 desktop environment has been announced, continuing the development of the GNOME 2.32 codebase while maintaining the classic desktop design concept. Installation packages for MATE 1.24 will soon be prepared for Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, ALT, and other distributions. In this new release: The first results of the initiative to port MATE applications to Wayland have been introduced. […]

Release of the free video editor OpenShot 2.5.0

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The release of the free non-linear video editing system OpenShot 2.5.0 has been announced. The project code is provided under the GPLv3 license: the interface is written in Python and PyQt5, the video processing core (libopenshot) is written in C++ and utilizes FFmpeg capabilities, and the interactive timeline is built using HTML5, JavaScript, and AngularJS. For Ubuntu users, packages with the latest OpenShot release are available through a specially prepared PPA repository, […]

Tails 4.3

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A new release of the Tails live distribution has been launched, focused on ensuring anonymity and protecting personal data online. This distribution is intended solely for booting from removable media, preferably write-protected. All network connections are routed solely through the TOR network. Your data is not saved anywhere unless you explicitly specify otherwise. No information is left on the computer, […]

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