An important part of vulnerability management is to understand well and secure the supply chain of the software components that make up modern systems. Teams practicing agile methodologies and DevOps widely use libraries and frameworks with open source code to shorten development time and costs. However, this coin has a flip side: the possibility of inheriting […]
Online retailers Ozon and Ak Bars Bank have successfully tested the "instant account" feature of the fast payment system (FPS), which allows shopping in online stores through the Central Bank of Russia's service without a QR code. According to official representatives of the Central Bank, 36 banks have already connected to this system; however, at the moment, only 8 of them are testing the payment for goods and services. The Central Bank anticipates that […]
The search engine has long been an integral part of the entire Microsoft operating systems lineup, particularly Windows 10. It makes it easy to find documents, images, or applications. However, search issues in "the ten" occur regularly and quite often. That's why Microsoft is currently working on a new application, Indexer Diagnostics, which is already available in the Microsoft Store. According to the developers, […]
The first release of wasm3 is available, a very fast interpreter for WebAssembly bytecode, primarily designed for running WebAssembly applications on microcontrollers and platforms that lack a JIT implementation for WebAssembly, have insufficient memory for JIT operation, or do not allow the creation of executable memory pages necessary for JIT implementation. The project code is written in C and distributed under the […]
Mozilla announced the start of testing a new mechanism for revocation of certificates — CRLite — in the Firefox nightly builds. CRLite allows for efficient certificate revocation checking using a database hosted on the user's system. The implementation of CRLite developed by Mozilla is published under the free MPL 2.0 license. The code for generating the database and server components is written in Python and Go. Added […]
Imagine this scenario. A cold October morning, a design institute in the regional center of one of Russia's regions. Someone from the HR department visits one of the job listing pages on the institute's website, posted a couple of days ago, and sees a photo of a cat. The morning quickly stops being boring… In this article, Pavel Suprunyuk, technical director of the audit and consulting department at Group-IB, […]
The reporting time in Excel is rapidly diminishing — the trend towards convenient tools for presenting and analyzing information is evident in all areas. We have long discussed digitalizing the reporting process and have chosen the visualization and self-service analytics system Tableau. Alexander Bezugly, head of the analytics and reporting department at the M.Video-Eldorado Group, shared his experiences and outcomes in building a battle dashboard. Let me tell you right away, not […]
Preface My website, which I manage as a hobby, is intended for storing interesting homepages and personal websites. This topic caught my interest at the very beginning of my programming journey, at a time when I was fascinated by finding great professionals who write about themselves, their hobbies, and their projects. The habit of discovering them for myself remains with me even now: almost […]
Support for the Windows 7 operating system ends tomorrow, and in anticipation of this event, Microsoft has released a statement recommending that users, instead of upgrading to Windows 10, purchase new PCs. Notably, Microsoft is not just recommending new PCs but also suggests buying branded Surface devices, whose advantages are detailed in the aforementioned publication. 'Many Windows 7 users […]
One of the issues with Linux for over 10 years has been monitoring the temperature of SATA/SCSI disks. The fact is that this was implemented through third-party utilities and daemons rather than the kernel, so they needed to be installed separately, granted access, and so forth. However, it seems that this situation is about to change. Reports indicate that in Linux kernel 5.5, for NVMe drives, it is already possible to do without […]
For many years, Kali Linux has been known for its root access policy for default users, a practice inherited from BackTrack Linux. On December 31, 2019, the developers of Kali Linux decided to transition to a more 'classic' policy — the absence of root privileges for users in the default session. This change will be implemented in the 2020.1 release of the distribution, but if desired, users can […]
Are you familiar with the situation where your business needs are growing, but there aren't enough people to meet those needs? What should you do in such cases? Where can you find people with the necessary skills, and is it even worth pursuing? Since this problem is, to put it mildly, not new, solutions already exist. Some companies resort to outstaffing schemes to engage specialists […]