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One of the main problems when working with Microsoft Office files in Google Docs will soon be resolved. The search giant announced the addition of built-in support for native Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats to its platform. Previously, editing data, collaborating, commenting, and more required converting documents to Google format, although they could be viewed directly. Now this will be […]
This is the second review in a series of articles examining open-source programs for working with the RDP protocol. In it, we will look at the rdesktop client and the xrdp server. PVS-Studio was used as a tool for detecting errors. This is a static code analyzer for C, C++, C#, and Java available on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. The article features only those […]
Firefox 67 beta version includes code to block JavaScript inserts that mine cryptocurrencies or track users using hidden identification methods ("browser fingerprinting"). Blocking is carried out based on additional categories (fingerprinting and cryptomining) in the Disconnect.me list, which includes hosts implicated in using miners and code for hidden identification. The code for cryptocurrency mining results in a significant increase in load on […]
A corrective release of Firefox 66.0.3 has been prepared, which updates the search plugin for Baidu and fixes four issues: Performance problems with some games written using HTML5 technologies (for example, games from the pogo.com service, which uses javascript-obfuscator to protect code from parsing) have been resolved; Issues with event handling when pressing keys in IBM Cloud and Microsoft Cloud applications (for example, […
Mathy Vanhoef, the author of the KRACK attack on wireless networks using WPA2, and Eyal Ronen, co-author of several attacks on TLS, revealed details about six vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-9494 — CVE-2019-9499) in the WPA3 wireless network protection technology that allow for the recreation of the connection password and unauthorized access to a wireless network without knowledge of the password. The vulnerabilities are grouped under the codename Dragonblood […]
Happy Cosmonautics Day! We have submitted "A Little Book About Black Holes" to the printing house. It is around this time that astrophysicists showed the world what black holes look like. Coincidence? We think not 😉 So stay tuned for an amazing book soon, written by Steven Gabser and Frans Pretorius, translated by the remarkable Pulkovo astronomer aka Astroded Kirill Maslennikov, with scientific editing by the legendary Vladimir […
A group of researchers from Ca' Foscari University (Italy) analyzed 90,000 hosts related to the 10,000 largest websites according to Alexa rankings and concluded that 5.5% of them have serious security problems in their TLS implementations. The study examined the application of vulnerable encryption methods: 4,818 of the problematic hosts were found to be susceptible to […
Mozilla has released the first public beta version of Firefox for computers based on Qualcomm Snapdragon chips and running Windows 10. This pertains to laptops, so the software list for such devices has expanded slightly. The browser is expected to transition from beta testing to release in the next two months, meaning that users will be able to use it by early summer. It is worth noting […]
I am Artem Klavdiev, the technical leader of the HyperCloud hyper-converged cloud project at Linxdatacenter. Today, I will continue sharing insights from the global Cisco Live EMEA 2019 conference. Let's jump straight from the general to the specific, to the announcements made by the vendor during the relevant sessions. This was my first time attending Cisco Live, with the mission to participate in the technical program events and dive into the world of advanced technologies […]
On March 13, a proposal was submitted to the RIPE working group on combating abuse to consider BGP hijacking as a violation of RIPE policy. If accepted, an internet provider attacked through traffic interception would have the opportunity to file a special request to expose the perpetrator. If the expert group gathers enough corroborating evidence, such an LIR, which is the source of the BGP hijacking, […]
Chef Software announced its decision to discontinue the Open Core business model, where only the basic components of the system are made freely available while advanced features are provided as part of a commercial product. All components of the Chef configuration management system, including the Chef Automate management console, infrastructure management tools, Chef InSpec security management module, and Chef Habitat delivery and orchestration automation system, […]
In 2016, the Software Freedom Conservancy filed a lawsuit against VMware, claiming that the 'vmkernel' component in VMware ESXi was built using code from the Linux kernel. However, the code of the component is closed, which violates the requirements of the GPLv2 license. At that time, the court did not issue a ruling on the merits. The case was closed due to lack of proper expertise and uncertainty with […]