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Biostar H310MHP board allows you to create a compact PC based on Intel

Biostar has announced the H310MHP motherboard, which can be used to create a small form factor desktop system or a home multimedia center. The new product has a Micro-ATX standard size; Dimensions are 226 × 171 mm. The Intel H310 logic set is used. It is possible to install eighth and ninth generation Intel Core processors in the LGA1151 version with a maximum thermal energy dissipation of up to 95 W. It is allowed to install [...]

Dirty tricks of CRM vendors: would you buy a car without wheels?

Cellular operators have a very sly saying: “Not a single telecom operator has stolen a penny from subscribers - everything happens out of ignorance, ignorance and oversight of the subscriber.” Why didn’t you go into your personal account and turn off services, why did you press the pop-up button when viewing your balance and subscribe to jokes for 30 rubles. per day, why didn't they check services […]

Smartphone Samsung Galaxy A50s appeared in the benchmark

In February of this year, Samsung introduced the Galaxy A50 mid-range smartphone with an Infinity-U Super AMOLED screen. And now it is reported that this model will have a brother in the form of the Galaxy A50s. The original version of the Galaxy A50, we recall, has an Exynos 9610 chip, 4/6 GB of RAM and a flash drive with a capacity of 64/128 GB. The display measures 6,4 inches [...]

Elusive Malware Adventures Part II: Hidden VBA Scripts

This article is part of the Fileless Malware series. All other parts of the series: Adventures of the Elusive Malware, Part I Adventures of the Elusive Malware, Part II: Hidden VBA Scripts (we're here) I'm a fan of the hybrid analysis site (hereinafter referred to as HA). This is a kind of malware zoo where you can safely observe wild "predators" from a safe distance without being attacked. HA launches […]

Part 3: Almost loading Linux from SD card to RocketChip

In the previous part, a more or less working memory controller was implemented, or rather, a wrapper over IP Core from Quartus, which is an adapter for TileLink. Today, in the section “Porting RocketChip to a little-known Chinese board with Cyclone”, you will see a working console. The process was somewhat delayed: I already thought that now I would quickly start Linux, and let's move on, but […]

Adventures of the Elusive Malvari, Part I

With this article, we begin a series of publications about elusive malware. Hacking programs that leave no trace of an attack, also known as fileless ("incorporeal", invisible, fileless), typically use PowerShell on Windows systems to covertly execute commands to search for and extract valuable content. Detecting hacker activity without malicious files is a difficult task. antivirus and many more […]

Part 4: Still running Linux on RocketChip RISC-V

In the picture, the Linux kernel sends you greetings via GPIO. In this part of the story with porting RISC-V RocketChip to a Chinese board with Cyclone IV, we will still run Linux, and also learn how to configure the IP Core of the memory controller ourselves and slightly edit the dts description of the hardware. This article is a continuation of the third part, but, unlike the fairly overgrown previous one, it […]

Habr Special // Podcast with the author of the book “Invasion. A Brief History of Russian Hackers"

Habr Special is a podcast to which we will invite programmers, writers, scientists, businessmen and other interesting people. The guest of the first episode is Daniil Turovsky, a special correspondent for Medusa, who wrote the book “Invasion. A Brief History of Russian Hackers." The book has 40 chapters that tell how the Russian-speaking hacker community emerged, first in the late USSR, and then in Russia and […]

Monitor file changes with Alerting OpenDistro for Elasticsearch

Today there is a need to monitor changes to certain files on the server, there are many different ways, for example, osquery from facebook, but since I recently started using Open Distro for Elasticsearch, I decided to monitor files with elastic, one of its beats. I will not describe the installation of Elastics stack and Auditbeat, everything is according to the manuals, the only thing is that after installation, edit the file auditbeat.yml, […]

Retire at 22

Hi, I'm Katya, I haven't worked for a year now. I worked a lot and got burned out. I quit and didn't look for a new job. A thick financial cushion provided me with an indefinite vacation. I had a great time, but I also lost some of my knowledge and became psychologically older. What life without work is like, and what you shouldn’t expect from it, read under the cut. Free […]

Live and learn. Part 1. School and Career Guidance

I have a friend from Grenoble, the son of Russian emigrants - after school (collège + lycée) he moved to Bordeaux and got a job at the port, a year later he moved to a flower shop as an SMM-schik, a year later he graduated from short courses and became something like a manager's assistant. After two years of work, at the age of 23, he left for the representative office of SAP […]

Do you want to lose weight learn IT on your own? ask me how

There is an opinion that I often come across - it is impossible to study on your own; you need professionals who will guide you along this thorny path - explain, check, control. I will try to refute this statement, and for this, as you know, it is enough to give at least one counterexample. In history there are such examples of great autodidacts (or, in simple terms, self-taught): archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) or […]