Author: ProHoster

Due to the coronavirus, the implementation of a number of requirements of the Yarovaya Law may be postponed

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia has prepared instructions based on industry proposals, which provide for the postponement of the implementation of certain provisions of the Yarovaya Law. This will help support domestic telecom operators amid the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, it is proposed to postpone for two years the implementation of the law’s requirement to annually increase storage capacity by 15%, and also to exclude from the calculation of capacity video services whose traffic increased […]

Silicon Power PC60 Pocket SSD is 11mm thick

Silicon Power has announced the PC60 portable SSD, which will be offered in four capacities - 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB, as well as 1,92 TB. The device is housed in a square housing with an edge length of 80 mm. The thickness is only about 11,2 mm, and the new product weighs approximately 46 g. For connection, a symmetrical USB port […]

Mellanox-NVIDIA deal close to approval by Chinese authorities

Chinese regulators are the final authority that must create favorable conditions for the completion of NVIDIA's deal to purchase the assets of Mellanox Technologies. Informed sources now report that the last stage of approval is close to completion. NVIDIA's intentions to buy the Israeli company Mellanox Technologies were announced in March last year. The transaction amount should be $6,9 billion. At the moment, NVIDIA has […]

Chrome update 81.0.4044.113 fixes critical vulnerability

An update to the Chrome browser 81.0.4044.113 has been published, which fixes a vulnerability that has the status of a critical problem, which allows you to bypass all levels of browser protection and execute code on the system, outside the sandbox environment. Details about the vulnerability (CVE-2020-6457) have not yet been disclosed, it is only known that it is caused by accessing an already freed memory block in the speech recognition component (by the way, a previous critical vulnerability […]

ProtonMail Bridge Open Source

The Swiss company Proton Technologies AG announced in its blog that the ProtonMail Bridge application is open source for all supported platforms (Linux, MacOS, Windows). The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Additionally, the application security model has been published. Interested experts are invited to join the bug bounty program. ProtonMail Bridge is designed to work with the ProtonMail secure email service using your preferred […]

GNU Guix 1.1 package manager and distribution based on it available

The GNU Guix 1.1 package manager and the GNU/Linux distribution built on its basis were released. For downloading, images have been generated for installation on USB Flash (241 MB) and use in virtualization systems (479 MB). Supports operation on i686, x86_64, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. The distribution allows installation both as a standalone OS in virtualization systems, in containers and on […]

Slurm Night School by Kubernetes

On April 7, the “Slurm Evening School: Basic Course on Kubernetes” starts - free webinars on theory and paid practice. The course is designed for 4 months, 1 theoretical webinar and 1 practical lesson per week (+ stands for independent work). The first introductory webinar of the Slurm Evening School will be held on April 7 at 20:00. Participation, as in the entire theoretical cycle, [...]

openITCOCKPIT 4.0 (Beta) released

openITCOCKPIT is a multi-client interface developed in PHP for managing Nagios and Naemon monitoring systems. The goal of the system is to create the simplest possible interface for monitoring complex IT infrastructures. Moreover, openITCOCKPIT offers a solution for monitoring remote systems (Distributed Monitoring) managed from one centralized point. Main changes: New backend, new design and new features. Own monitoring agent - […]

KwinFT - a fork of Kwin with an eye to more active development and optimization

Roman Gilg, one of the active developers of Kwin and Xwayland, introduced a fork of the Kwin window manager called KwinFT (Fast Track), as well as a completely redesigned version of the Kwayland library called Wrapland, freed from bindings to Qt. The purpose of the fork is to allow more active development of Kwin, increasing the functionality required for Wayland, as well as optimizing rendering. Classic Kwin suffers from […]

Video @Databases Meetup: DBMS security, Tarantool in IoT, Greenplum for Big Data analytics

On February 28, the @Databases meetup was organized by Mail.ru Cloud Solutions. More than 300 participants gathered at Mail.ru Group to discuss topical issues of modern productive databases. Under the cut of the video of speeches: how Gazinformservice prepares secure DBMS without loss of performance; Arenadata explains what is at the heart of Greenplum, a powerful massively parallel DBMS for analytical tasks; and Mail.ru Cloud Solutions […]

Launching Jupyter into LXD Orbit

Have you ever experimented with code or system utilities on Linux in a way that doesn't shake the base system and tear it all apart when a code error occurs that should run with root privileges? But what about the fact that, say, you need to test or run a whole cluster of various microservices on one machine? A hundred or even a thousand? […]

Processing network data on the fly

The translation of the article was prepared on the eve of the start of the course “Pentest. Penetration Testing Practice. Abstract A variety of security assessments, ranging from regular penetration testing and Red Team operations to hacking IoT / ICS devices and SCADA, involve working with binary network protocols, that is, in fact, intercepting and modifying network data between the client and the target . Network sniffing […]