Introduction Modern corporate content filtering systems from renowned manufacturers such as Cisco, BlueCoat, and FireEye share many similarities with their more powerful counterparts — DPI systems, which are being aggressively implemented at a national level. The essence of both is to inspect incoming and outgoing internet traffic and, based on black/white lists, make decisions […]
When choosing a "home" for your website or online project, it's important to keep in mind several simple recommendations to avoid regretting lost time and money later. Our tips will help you build a clear algorithm for selecting paid hosting based on various paid and free content management systems. Tip one: Carefully choose the hosting provider. There are […] in the Russian market.
This is what the monitoring center of the NORD-2 data center located in Moscow looks like. You have read more than once about the measures taken to ensure information security (IS). Any self-respecting IT professional can easily name 5-10 IS rules. Cloud4Y suggests discussing the information security of data centers. The most "protected" objects in ensuring the data center's information security are: information resources (data); processes […]
The U.S. Department of Health's federal agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has reported a breakthrough in investigating the causes of lung illnesses among e-cigarette users. CDC specialists have identified that samples of fluid from the lungs of 29 patients across 10 states contain the same chemical — vitamin E acetate. According to […]
Paramount Pictures has listened to the fans of the Sonic gaming universe and completely redesigned the movie version of the famous supersonic hedgehog. You can see his new look in the latest trailer for the film 'Sonic the Hedgehog.' Recall that earlier this year, the studio released the debut trailer for the film, which faced a wave of criticism from fans. The hedgehog shown there was not only far […
In libjpeg-turbo, a library for encoding and decoding images in the JPEG format, a vulnerability (CVE-2019-2201) has been identified that leads to an integer overflow and subsequent heap corruption when processing specially crafted JPEG files. This vulnerability could potentially allow for the creation of an exploit to execute code in the system (the attack requires processing a very large image with a resolution of […
When I wrote the article 'How to save your own and others' time in interviews, or a little about HR misconceptions' almost a year ago, I assumed the good faith and interest of both parties in a long-term partnership (mutual gain, win-win, all that). However, the reality of the past year shows that the situation in the market is gradually changing for the worse for employees, and […]
Another day began as expected for a winter day in a short week. Classic tasks were pouring into the task manager — "I sent a letter to Vasily Ivanovich at Sportloto yesterday, instead of Ivan Vasilyevich at Loto-million, where I wrote all sorts of inappropriate things about Vasily Ivanovich, please make sure he doesn't read the letter" or "last year we optimized […]
Colleagues from the PR department have been collecting case studies for several years involving our corporate-class equipment. A significant portion of these are projects in the hospitality sector. This is due to the fact that this area is one of the key components of TP-Link's project direction, and such cases often turn out to be the most interesting from a professional standpoint. On typical hotel requirements […]
There is a quite interesting document on CIS Controls that discusses Information Security using the Pareto principle (80/20). This principle states that 20% of protective measures yield 80% of the results in terms of a company's security. After reviewing this document, many security professionals discover that when selecting protective measures, they do not start with the most effective ones. The document highlights 5 key measures […]
TL; DR: JSONB can greatly simplify database schema development without compromising query performance. Introduction Let's provide a classic example, probably one of the oldest use cases in the world of relational databases: we have an entity, and we need to store certain properties (attributes) of this entity. However, not all instances may have the same set of properties, and furthermore, in […]
It was the year 2019. Our laboratory received a rather unusual hard drive for our time, the QUANTUM FIREBALL Plus KA with a capacity of 9.1GB. According to the owner, the failure occurred back in 2004 due to a malfunctioning power supply, which took the hard drive and other PC components with it. What followed were visits to various service centers […]