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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.

A method for collision detection in SHA-1 has been proposed, suitable for attacking PGP.

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Researchers from the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) have presented the Shambles attack method (PDF), which is touted as the first practical implementation of an attack on the SHA-1 algorithm that can be used to create spoofed digital signatures for PGP and GnuPG. The researchers believe that now all practical attacks on MD5 can also be applied to […]

Release Firefox 72

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The release of the Firefox 72 web browser has taken place, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.4 for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 68.4.0 has been generated. The Firefox 73 branch will soon enter beta testing, with a release scheduled for February 11 (the project has shifted to a 4-week development cycle). Key innovations: In the default standard blocking mode […]

Tails 4.2

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Tails is an operating system that can be run on almost any computer using a USB drive or DVD. It is designed to protect your privacy and anonymity and assists you in doing so. This release fixes numerous vulnerabilities. You should update as soon as possible. Improvements to Automatic Updates We have worked on significant improvements to the automatic update feature, which has been causing […]

The second candidate for the libmdbx v1.0 releases after five years of development.

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The libmdbx library is a significantly revamped descendant of LMDB — an extremely high-performance, compact embedded key-value database. The current version v0.5 is a technical release, marking the end of any enhancements and transitioning to the phase of public final testing and stabilization, leading up to the formation of the first full release of the library. LMDB is a well-known transactional embedded DBMS of the key-value type based on B+ tree […]

Using Clickhouse as a replacement for ELK, Big Query, and TimescaleDB

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Clickhouse is a columnar database management system for online analytical processing (OLAP) with open source, developed by Yandex. It is used by Yandex, CloudFlare, VK.com, Badoo, and other services worldwide to store truly large amounts of data (inserting thousands of rows per second or petabytes of data stored on disk). In a typical 'row-based' DBMS, examples include […]

God Mode in Windows 10 (corrected version)

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Note: I apologize for the serious typo in the first version of the note. Thank you to all readers who reported the typo. God Mode is a convenient way to access Windows commands in a single window. Let's look at how to use this mode. God Mode is a special option that has long been available in Windows, giving you quick access to most […]

After five years of development, the second release candidate for libmdbx 1.0 has been published

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The second release candidate of the libmdbx library is available for testing, featuring a high-performance, compact embedded key-value database. The current version (0.5) is a technical release, marking the completion of any refinements and the transition to the public final testing and stabilization phase, with subsequent formation of the first full release of the library. The libmdbx code is distributed under the OpenLDAP Public License. The MDBX library is […]

Release of the Nuitka compiler 0.6.6. The end of support for Python 2.7 has been postponed to April

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The release of project Nuitka 0.6.6 has been prepared, which develops a compiler that can translate a script in Python into a C++ representation that can then be compiled into an executable file using libpython to ensure maximum compatibility with CPython (using standard CPython tools for object management). Full compatibility with the latest releases of Python 2.x and 3.x has been provided. Compared to […]

Only 9.27% of NPM package maintainers use two-factor authentication.

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Adam Baldwin, who leads the team responsible for the security of the NPM repository, published statistics prepared based on last year's results: Despite ongoing incidents involving the takeover of NPM repositories, only 9.27% of package maintainers use two-factor authentication to secure access; 13.37% of new accounts attempted to reuse compromised passwords found in known leaks according to data from the […]

Telegram will not control the blockchain platform TON.

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Telegram has published a statement on its website clarifying some aspects regarding the operational principles of the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform and the Gram cryptocurrency. The statement highlights that the company will not be able to control the platform after its launch, nor will it have any other management rights over it. It has been revealed that the TON Wallet cryptocurrency wallet will be operational at launch […]

Vim9 introduced, a fork of Vim for script optimization experiments.

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Bram Moolenaar, the author of the text editor Vim, announced the creation of the Vim9 repository, where work is underway on an experimental fork of Vim aimed at exploring ways to enhance performance and functionality of the Vim scripting language. Key optimizations involve reworking methods for determining, calling, and executing functions, as well as moving away from using dictionaries for arguments and […]

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