Author: ProHoster

Video: Overwatch developers talk about open competitive mode and more

Blizzard Entertainment Vice President Jeff Kaplan wrote about the innovations in the competitive action game in a new Overwatch developer news release. First of all, he touched on the open competitive mode, which is currently available in Arcade and allows you to play as before: without the restrictions of 2x2x2 - division into two fighters of each type in the team. Different countries reacted to this [...]

Donald Trump stood up for the head of Tesla in a conflict with the authorities of Alameda County

Many social institutions were not ready to face the challenge of a pandemic. The conflict between Alameda County authorities and Tesla management is a typical illustration. The electric vehicle manufacturer rushed to launch production against the will of the local administration, but US President Donald Trump stood up for Elon Musk. The American president, from his Twitter pages, appealed to the California authorities demanding immediate permission for Tesla to resume the assembly of electric vehicles [...]

Micron Introduces Affordable Consumer SSDs with TLC and QLC Memory

Micron has introduced two new series of M.2 solid-state drives with PCIe 3.0 x4 interface: Micron 2210 and Micron 2300. The new products are positioned as affordable storage devices for consumer laptops and desktop PCs. Representatives of the more affordable Micron 2210 series are built on 3D QLC NAND memory chips, which involves storing four bits of information in one […]

Patriot Unveils Viper 4 Blackout 32GB DDR4 Memory Kits

Patriot is expanding its range of memory module kits for gaming systems produced under the Viper Gaming brand. The Viper 4 Blackout series of modules has been replenished with dual-channel kits of increased capacity, consisting of 32 GB modules. A total of three sets were presented, each of which consists of two 32 GB modules, that is, with a total capacity of 64 GB. Sets available with effective frequencies […]

sudo 1.9.0 release

9 years after the formation of the 1.8.x branch, a new significant release of the sudo 1.9.0 utility has been published, used to organize the execution of commands on behalf of other users. Key changes: The sudo_logsrvd background process is included, designed for centralized logging from other systems. When building sudo with the “--enable-openssl” option, data is transmitted over an encrypted communication channel (TLS). Configuring log sending […]

Remote exploitable vulnerabilities in FreeBSD

FreeBSD addresses five vulnerabilities, including issues that could potentially lead to kernel-level data overwriting when sending certain network packets or allow a local user to escalate their privileges. The vulnerabilities were fixed in updates 12.1-RELEASE-p5 and 11.3-RELEASE-p9. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2020-7454) is caused by the lack of proper packet size check in the libalias library when parsing […]

Node.js Author Introduces Secure JavaScript Platform Deno 1.0

After two years of development, the first major release of Deno 1.0, a framework for stand-alone execution of JavaScript and TypeScript applications that can be used to create server-side handlers, is here. The platform is developed by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. Like Node.js, Deno uses the V8 JavaScript engine, which is also used in Chromium-based browsers. […]

Selenium tests in C# on Linux

Automating web application testing with Selenium is a common solution among autotest developers, and C# is one of the most popular programming languages, so the combination of these tools does not raise any questions. For development using these technologies, Microsoft's popular proprietary software for Windows is often used, but I was interested to know what free analogues can be used without departing from the […]

ACS: problems, solutions and security risk management

Source Contrary to popular belief, an access control system by itself rarely solves security problems. In reality, ACS provides an opportunity to solve such problems. When you approach the choice of ACS from the point of view of a ready-made security kit that will completely cover the risks of the company, difficulties are inevitable. Moreover, complex issues will manifest themselves only after the deployment of the system. On the first […]

A small "osinta" session on the modernization and production of radio communication systems for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

After yesterday's heated discussion about who heard or did not hear at all, let's go over the news chronicles of recent years. So, in the main “roles”: The Aqueduct radio station, originally created using fifth-generation technology, was modernized in 2016, as follows from the message on the website of the Sozvezdie concern. The updated model was named "Aqueduct R-168-25U2" and was created using […]