Author: Yuri Gagarin

What happens during connections inside and outside the VPN tunnel

Real articles are born from emails to Tucha's technical support. Recently, a client reached out asking for clarification on what happens during connections inside a VPN tunnel between the user's office and the cloud environment, as well as during connections outside the VPN tunnel. Therefore, the entire text provided below is a real email we sent to one of our clients in response to […]

OpenVPN Setup on Windows Server and Mikrotik with Migration to Linux

Greetings! Eventually, every enterprise finds itself in sudden need of remote access. The necessity to organize remote access to their networks is something nearly every IT professional encounters. Like many, I felt this need hit me with the urgency of “yesterday.” After analyzing all the pros and cons, as well as sifting through tons of information and delving a bit into the theory, I decided to start the installation. […]

$11 million is being invested in an intelligent cybersecurity platform

The issue of security is critically important for every company dealing with data. Modern tools allow attackers to effectively mimic the activities of a regular user. However, protective mechanisms do not always recognize and prevent unauthorized access attempts. As a result, there are information leaks, theft of funds from bank accounts, and other troubles. A solution to this problem was proposed by the Spanish company Buguroo, which utilizes deep learning […]

Release of the decentralized communication platform Hubzilla 4.6

After 3 months of development, the release of the decentralized social network building platform Hubzilla 4.6 has been announced. The project provides a communication server that can be integrated with web publishing systems, equipped with a transparent identification system and access management tools in decentralized Fediverse networks. The project's code is written in PHP and JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license. Hubzilla supports a unified authentication system to work as […]

Two malicious libraries have been detected in the Python package directory PyPI.

Malicious packages "python3-dateutil" and "jeIlyfish" have been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI), uploaded by a single author olgired2017 and masquerading as popular packages "dateutil" and "jellyfish" (differentiated by the use of the character "I" (i) instead of "l" (L) in the name). After the installation of these packages, encryption keys and user confidential data found on the server were sent to the attacker. In […]

15 vulnerabilities in USB drivers supplied with the Linux kernel

Andrey Konovalov from Google has published a report on the identification of another 15 vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-19523 — CVE-2019-19537) in USB drivers offered in the Linux kernel. This is the third batch of issues found during fuzz testing of the USB stack in the syzkaller package — previously this researcher already reported the existence of 29 vulnerabilities. This time, the list includes only vulnerabilities caused by accessing already […]

6 latest courses on Azure

Hello, Habr! We have previously published 3 out of 5 articles in our series featuring interesting training courses from Microsoft. Today is the fourth part, and in it, we will discuss the latest courses on Azure cloud. By the way! All courses are free (you can even try paid products for free); 5/6 are in Russian; You can start learning instantly; […]

7 free solution architect courses from Microsoft

Hello, Habr! Today we are at the midpoint of our series featuring cool free courses from Microsoft. In this part, we have the coolest courses for solution architects. They are all in Russian, you can start them right now, and upon completion, you'll receive a badge. Join us! All articles in the series This block will be updated as new articles are released 7 free […]

Not just smart speakers. Top 7 unexpected but promising IoT solutions

Over the past few years of the Internet of Things development, the most advanced city dwellers have come to believe that IoT solutions are large projects that optimize technological processes—from factories to farms. Meanwhile, for most people, the Internet of Things still boils down to toy speakers named after women. To convince you that the Internet of Things can offer ordinary people much more even now, we have compiled […]

Our hands are not for idleness: restoring the Rook cluster in K8s

We have already discussed how/why we like Rook: it significantly simplifies working with storage in Kubernetes clusters. However, this simplicity comes with certain complexities. We hope the new material will help better understand such challenges before they arise. To make reading more engaging, we'll start with the implications of a hypothetical problem in the cluster. 'Everything [...].

The release of the display server Mir 1.6

The release of the Mir display server 1.6 has been presented, whose development continues by Canonical despite the abandonment of the Unity interface and Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, enabling launches in environments [...]

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