Heading: Administration

Legendary modems of the past: the best connection holders in domestic PBX conditions

Anyone who has ever heard the sound of a modem connection to the Internet over a telephone line will never forget it. For the uninitiated, this is not a very melodic combination of sounds. For those who depended on modem communication, these sounds are like magic music. Now, in 2019, dial-up has become an old and unnecessary technology for the vast majority. Indeed, a slow connection with the ability to […]

DLP-system DeviceLock 8.2 - a leaky fence guarding your safety

In October 2017, I happened to attend an advertising seminar for the DeviceLock DLP system, where, in addition to the main functionality of leak protection such as closing USB ports, contextual analysis of mail and clipboard, administrator protection was advertised. The model is simple and beautiful - an installer comes to a small company, installs a set of programs, a BIOS password, creates a DeviceLock administrator account, and leaves the local admin […]

Why non-food stores need a self-service organization

Why are self-service systems being introduced not only by grocery stores, but also by non-food stores? How many self-service technologies are effective in the non-food segment? (Spoiler: three) Who won't benefit from these innovations? Look for answers to these and other questions in our article. What is a non-food segment and why everything is not easy in it

What links ABBYY FlexiCapture with the Chilean presidential election?

Let it be a little against the rules, but here it is, the answer is our product and the election of the president of a distant South American country combines 160 forms from polling stations and 72 hours spent on processing them. About how it all started and how the process was organized, I will tell you under the cut. I will start from afar, that is, from Chile […]

Group-IB webinar "Group-IB Approach to Cyber ​​Education: Overview of Current Programs and Case Studies"

Information security knowledge is power. The relevance of a continuous learning process in this area is due to the rapidly changing trends in cybercrime, as well as the need for new competencies. Experts from Group-IB, an international company specializing in preventing cyber attacks, have prepared a webinar on the topic “Group-IB’s approach to cyber education: an overview of current programs and practical cases”. The webinar will start on March 28, 2019 at 11:00 […]

How we helped transform the work of the accounting department at MOEK

We have written several times about how our technologies help various organizations and even entire states process information from any type of document and enter data into accounting systems. Today we’ll tell you how ABBYY FlexiCapture was implemented at the Moscow United Energy Company (MOEK), the largest supplier of heat and hot water in Moscow. Imagine yourself in the place of an ordinary accountant. […]

A detailed response to the comment, as well as a little about the life of providers in the Russian Federation

It was this comment that inspired me to this post. I bring it here: kaleman today at 18:53 I was pleased with the provider today. Along with the update of the site blocking system, he got the mail.ru mailer under the ban. In the morning I pull technical support, they can’t do anything. The provider is small, and apparently higher providers are blocking. I also noticed a slowdown in the opening of all sites, maybe […]

The use of Linux and open source software in our educational institution: to be or not to be?

Good day, dear Khabrovsk residents. Recently, I began to worry about the question: how long will Microsoft’s monopoly last in the market sector responsible for supplying software to many educational institutions in our country (in fact, it has been occupied by the corporation since the 90s). Let me give you a specific example: I go to a relatively popular IT club for high school students at a local […]

Huawei and Nutanix Announce HCI Partnership

At the end of last week there was great news: two of our partners (Huawei and Nutanix) announced a partnership in the field of HCI. Huawei server hardware has now been added to the Nutanix hardware compatibility list. Huawei-Nutanix HCI is built on the FusionServer 2288H V5 (this is a 2U dual-processor server). The jointly developed solution is designed to create flexible cloud platforms capable of handling enterprise […]

Millions of binaries later. How Linux got stronger

TL;DR. In this article, we explore the hardening schemes that work out of the box on five popular Linux distributions. For each, we took the default kernel configuration, loaded all the packages, and analyzed the security schemes in the attached binaries. Distributions considered are OpenSUSE 12.4, Debian 9, CentOS, RHEL 6.10 and 7, as well as Ubuntu 14.04, 12.04 and […]

Overview of the Snom PA1 warning system

IP telephony is not only about obvious and well-known devices, such as a PBX and telephones connected to it. A telephone communication system may include devices that do not provide communication between subscribers, but a completely different interaction that we often encounter and which we simply do not notice. Here in the elevator of a shopping center there is unobtrusive music playing, in a supermarket [...]

Nvidia's neural network turns simple sketches into beautiful landscapes

A smoker's waterfall and a healthy person's waterfall We all know how to draw an owl. First you need to draw an oval, then another circle, and then - it turns out a gorgeous owl. Of course, this is a joke, and a very old one, but Nvidia engineers tried to make the fantasy come true. A new development called GauGAN creates gorgeous landscapes from very simple sketches (really […]