In the last article, we talked about Nemesida WAF Free, a free tool for protecting websites and APIs from hacker attacks, and in this article we decided to review the popular Wapiti vulnerability scanner. Scanning a site for vulnerabilities is a necessary measure, which, together with the analysis of the source code, allows you to assess the level of its protection against threats of compromise. You can scan a web resource […]
Note. transl.: With the growing number of YAML configurations for K8s environments, the need for their automated verification becomes more and more urgent. The author of this review not only selected existing solutions for this task, but also looked at how they work using the example of Deployment. It turned out to be very informative for those who are interested in this topic. TL;DR: This article compares six static validation tools and […]
As part of a large press conference held online on July 15, Xiaomi presented a whole bunch of new products for the European market. Among them was the Mi Electric Scooter Pro 2 electric scooter. Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter Pro 2 is equipped with a 300 W electric motor. The motor allows the scooter to reach a speed of 25 km/h and climb hills with a slope of up to 20% […]
Mukesh Ambani, a representative of the Indian cellular operator Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of Jio Platforms Ltd. — announced a partnership with Google. In addition to providing communication services, Jio Platforms is developing a national online trading platform and online services in the Indian market, but the result of its cooperation with Google should be a completely new entry-level smartphone. Jio is already known […]
Intel has begun sending out invitations to journalists from around the world to attend a private online event, which it plans to host on September 2 this year. “We invite you to an event where Intel will talk about new opportunities for work and leisure,” the invitation text says. Obviously, the only true guess as to what exactly this planned event is going to present […]
The developers of the Matrix client Riot announced that they have changed the name of the project to Element. The company developing the program, New Vector, created in 2017 by the key developers of the Matrix project, was also renamed Element, and the hosting of Matrix services in Modular.im became Element Matrix Services. The need to change the name is due to overlaps with the existing Riot Games trademark, which does not allow registering Riot's own trademark for […]
Oracle has published a planned release of updates to its products (Critical Patch Update), aimed at eliminating critical problems and vulnerabilities. The July update fixed a total of 443 vulnerabilities. Java SE 14.0.2, 11.0.8, and 8u261 releases address 11 security issues. All vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication. The highest danger level of 8.3 is assigned to problems in [...]
The developers of the Aurora mobile operating system (a fork of the Sailfish OS developed by the Open Mobile Platform company) shared an illustrative story about the elimination of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-6096) in Glibc, which appears only on the ARMv7 platform. Information about the vulnerability was disclosed back in May, but until recent days, fixes were not available, despite the fact that the vulnerability was assigned a high level of severity and […]
Nokia has introduced a new generation network operating system for data centers, called Nokia Service Router Linux (SR Linux). The development was carried out in alliance with Apple, which has already announced the start of using the new OS from Nokia in its cloud solutions. Key elements of Nokia SR Linux: runs on standard Linux OS; compatible […]
The parent company developing reference implementations of Matrix components was also renamed - New Vector became Element, and the commercial service Modular, which provides hosting (SaaS) of Matrix servers, is now Element Matrix Services. Matrix is a free protocol for implementing a federated network based on a linear history of events. The flagship implementation of this protocol is a messenger with support for signaling VoIP calls and […]
Many have probably heard about Anycast. With this method of network addressing and routing, a single IP address is assigned to multiple servers on a network. These servers can even be located in data centers that are remote from each other. The idea of Anycast is that, depending on the location of the request source, the data is sent to the nearest (according to the network topology, more precisely, the BGP routing protocol) server. So […]
On July 10, 2020, the Austrian company Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH provided a public beta version of a new backup solution. We have already covered how to use native backup methods in Proxmox VE and perform incremental backups using a third-party solution - Veeam® Backup & Replication™. Now, with the advent of Proxmox Backup Server (PBS), the backup process should become […]
