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After 6 months of development, the OPNsense 19.7 firewall distribution release has been presented, which is a branch of the pfSense project, created to form a fully open distribution that could possess functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not being controlled by a single company, developed with direct […]
Eclypsium has identified two vulnerabilities in the firmware of the BMC controller supplied in Lenovo ThinkServer servers, allowing a local user to replace the firmware or execute arbitrary code on the BMC chip. Further investigation revealed that these issues also affect the firmware of BMC controllers used in Gigabyte Enterprise Servers, which are also employed in servers from companies such as Acer, AMAX, Bigtera, Ciara, […]
Today, many companies actively use not only computers but also mobile devices and laptops in their work. This raises the issue of managing these devices using a unified solution. Sophos Mobile successfully addresses this task and opens up significant opportunities for administrators: Management of corporate mobile devices; BYOD, corporate data access containers. More details […]
Among the upcoming changes in Fedora 31, it has been proposed to discontinue the creation of primary repositories for the i686 architecture. The formation of multi-lib repositories for x86_64 environments will be maintained, and i686 packages will remain in them. This change has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical aspect of Fedora distribution development. This proposal supplements the one approved for implementation in the branch […]
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The principle of "more means stronger" has long been established in many areas of society, including science and technology. However, in modern times, we increasingly see practical implementations of the saying "small but mighty." This is evident in computers that once occupied entire rooms and now fit in the palm of a child's hand, as well as in […]
We are all familiar with the ability of neural networks to recognize handwritten text. The foundations of this technology have existed for many years, but only recently, advancements in computing power and parallel data processing have made it a very practical solution. However, this practical solution will fundamentally be presented in the form of a digital computer. […]
At the ongoing developer meeting in Stockholm, a separate section is dedicated to the integration of Tor and Firefox. The key tasks involve creating an add-on that enables operation through the anonymous Tor network in standard Firefox, as well as transferring patches developed for Tor Browser into the main Firefox codebase. A special website, torpat.ch, has been prepared to track the status of these patch transfers. […]
You may have heard the phrase, "the older the product, the more functional it becomes." In today's age of advanced technology, web development, and SaaS models, this assertion rarely holds true. The key to successful development lies in constant market monitoring, tracking customer demands and requirements, and being ready to act on important feedback today, pull it into the backlog this evening, and begin development tomorrow. This is how we […]
Recently, we faced the task of monitoring the expiration dates of certificates on Windows servers. Well, it arose after the certificates turned into pumpkins several times, at the very moment when the colleague responsible for their renewal was on vacation. After that, we began to suspect something and decided to think about it. Since we did not […]
Last year, we released Nemesida WAF Free — a dynamic module for NGINX that blocks attacks on web applications. Unlike the commercial version, which is based on machine learning, the free version analyzes requests only using a signature-based method. Features of the release Nemesida WAF 4.0.129 Until the current release, the Nemesida WAF dynamic module supported only Nginx Stable 1.12, 1.14, and 1.16. In […]
The release of the Live distribution NST (Network Security Toolkit) 30-11210 has been presented, designed for network security analysis and monitoring its functioning. The size of the bootable ISO image (x86_64) is 3.6 GB. For Fedora Linux users, a special repository has been prepared that allows the installation of all NST project developments on an already installed system. The distribution is based on Fedora 28 and allows for installation […]