Author: Yuri Gagarin

Attackers are trying to exploit a vulnerability in corporate VPNs to steal money.

Experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a series of hacker attacks targeting telecommunications and financial companies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As part of this campaign, the attackers sought to gain access to the funds and financial data of their victims. Reports indicate that the hackers attempted to siphon tens of millions of dollars from the accounts of the attacked companies. In each documented case, the hackers used […]

Google is testing a new way to interact with messages

In April of this year, Google released a beta version of the Android 10 software platform, one of the features of which is a new message notification function called Bubbles. Although this feature was not included in the stable version of Android 10, it may return in the next version of the operating system. Network sources suggest that […]

How to create your own autoscaler for a cluster

Hello! We teach people how to work with big data. It's hard to imagine an educational program on big data without its own cluster where all participants work together. For this reason, it is always included in our program 🙂 We handle its setup, tuning, and administration, while the participants run MapReduce jobs and use Spark there. In this post, we […]

Linux is working on my business card

Translation of an article from engineer George Hilliard's blog Clickable I am an embedded systems engineer. In my spare time, I often look for things that can be used in designing future systems or something from my range of interests. One such area is cheap computers capable of supporting Linux, and the cheaper, the better. That’s why I delved deep into a rabbit hole […]

Bulk permissions assignment for users in domains from different forests

Apparently, it's my karma: implementing standard tasks in various non-trivial ways. If anyone has a different perspective on the issue, please feel free to join the discussion to explore the matter. One fine morning, an interesting task arose to grant user groups permissions on various shares containing subfolders of projects with document folders. Everything was fine, and a script was written to assign permissions to the folders. […]

Apple has denied the fact of developing Safari based on Chromium.

As of today, browsers based on Chrome and Chromium account for about 80% of the market. The only independent project is Firefox. Recently, there has been information that Apple may also transition its Safari browser to Google’s engine. This information is based on a proposal to include Intelligent Tracking Prevention in the upcoming version of Chromium 80. Given that IPT is a signature feature […]

The Debian vote on the status of initialization systems has ended

On December 7, 2019, a vote was held among Debian developers regarding the status of initialization systems other than systemd. The options for the project to choose from were: F: Focus on systemd B: Systemd, but we support exploring alternative solutions A: Supporting many initialization systems is important D: Support systems other than systemd, but do not block […]

Gateway for UDP between Wi-Fi and LoRa

Creating a gateway between Wi-Fi and LoRa for UDP My childhood dream was to give every domestic 'non-Wi-Fi' device a ticket to the network, i.e., an IP address and port. After some time, I realized it was time to stop delaying. I needed to just go ahead and do it. Technical task: Make a gateway using M5Stack with an installed LoRa module (see Figure 1). The gateway will be connected to […]

3. Elastic stack: analyzing security logs. Dashboards

In previous articles, we briefly explored the ELK stack and the configuration file settings for Logstash log parsing. In this article, we'll focus on the most essential aspect from an analytics perspective — the visualizations and tables combined into dashboards that you want to see from the system, which is the reason it was all created. Today, we will take a closer look at the visualization system […]

Predator or prey? Who will protect the certification authorities

What is happening? The topic of fraudulent activities committed using electronic signature certificates has gained significant public resonance recently. Federal media have made it a practice to periodically tell alarming stories about cases of improper use of electronic signatures. The most common crime in this field is the registration of a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur in the name of an unsuspecting Russian citizen. Additionally, it is also prevalent […]

The server CPU Ampere QuickSilver has been introduced: 80 cloud cores ARM Neoverse N1

Ampere Computing has announced the new generation 7nm ARM processor QuickSilver, designed for cloud systems. The new chip features 80 cores with the latest Neoverse N1 microarchitecture, more than 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes, and an eight-channel DDR4 memory controller supporting modules with speeds above 2666 MHz. Additionally, with CCIX support, two-processor platforms can be created. Together, all this should enable the new […]

Results of the voting on initialization systems in Debian have been summarized

The results of the general resolution (GR) vote among Debian developers involved in package maintenance and infrastructure support have been published, addressing support for multiple initialization systems. The second option ('B') won — systemd remains preferred, but support for alternative initialization systems is still allowed. The voting was conducted using the Condorcet method, where each voter ranks all options in order of their […]

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