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The transition of employees to remote work is no longer exotic, but rather a situation close to normal. This is not about freelancing, but about full-fledged remote work for employees of companies and institutions. For employees, it means a flexible schedule and greater comfort, while for companies, it's an honest way to get a bit more from workers than they might have otherwise.
The release of PacketFence 9.0 has taken place, a free network access control (NAC) system that can be used to organize centralized access and effectively secure networks of any size. The system's code is written in Perl and distributed under the GPLv2 license. Installation packages have been prepared for RHEL and Debian. PacketFence supports the provision of centralized user access to the network via both wired and wireless connections.
A new major version of Flare has been released — a free isometric RPG with hack-and-slash elements, being developed since 2010. According to the developers, Flare's gameplay is reminiscent of the popular Diablo series, and the official campaign takes place in a classic fantasy setting. One distinctive feature of Flare is the ability to expand with mods and create custom campaigns using the game engine. In this release: Redesigned menu […]
The Opera 51 build for Android debuted a built-in VPN. In the new version, number 52, this service has been improved, but something else has been added as well. Specifically, this is the ability to save web pages as PDF files. This can be useful for saving tickets, texts, and other data. To save, you need to use the browser menu with three dots, and the print option in this […]
Our colleagues from TechPowerUP, citing publications in the Dutch press, report that Intel attempted to bribe researchers who discovered MDS vulnerabilities. Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities were found in Intel processors sold over the past 8 years. These vulnerabilities were discovered by security specialists from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam […]
The release of the Linux distribution Peppermint 10 has taken place. Based on the package base of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, it offers a lightweight user environment based on the LXDE desktop, the Xfwm4 window manager, and an Xfce panel, which replace Openbox and lxpanel. The distribution is also notable for the inclusion of the Site Specific Browser framework, which allows web applications to be used as standalone programs. The project is available through the repositories […]
A new version of the oldest supported password cracking program, John the Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1, has been released. (The project has been in development since 1996.) The project page offers source code downloads as well as ready-made builds for Windows. It is noted that 4.5 years have passed since the release of version 1.8.0-jumbo-1, during which over 6000 changes (git commits) were made by more than 80 developers. During […]
A new version of the oldest supported password cracking program, John the Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1, has been released (the project has been in development since 1996). Since the last version 1.8.0-jumbo-1, which was released 4.5 years ago, over 6000 changes (git commits) have been made by more than 80 developers. Thanks to continuous integration, which includes a preliminary review of each change (pull request) on many platforms, during this […]
Engineers from Cloudflare, Mozilla, Facebook, and Bloomberg have proposed a new format called BinaryAST to accelerate the delivery and processing of JavaScript code when websites are opened in a browser. BinaryAST offloads the parsing phase to the server side and delivers a pre-compiled abstract syntax tree (AST). Upon receiving BinaryAST, the browser can immediately transition to the compilation stage, bypassing the parsing of the original JavaScript code. […]
Let's imagine chemistry without Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869). How many elements would one need to remember, and in random order...? (Back then — 60.) It’s enough to think about one or several programming languages at once. The same feelings, the same creative chaos. Now we can experience the emotions of 19th-century chemists when they were presented with all their […]
Recently, we reported that a new operator, Nøkk, from the assault team will appear in the tactical shooter Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege in the coming days. The defense team will also receive reinforcements as part of the second season of the fourth year of game support. Ubisoft unveiled a teaser detailing the American operative codename Warden. Colin McKinley hails from Kentucky and has made a notable career in the navy […]
Recently, the research company Javelin Strategy & Research published a report titled 'The State of Strong Authentication 2019'. Its creators gathered information on the authentication methods used in corporate environments and user applications, as well as made interesting conclusions about the future of strong authentication. We have already published the translation of the first part with the authors' findings on Habrahabr. Now we present […]