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Today's review is interesting for at least two reasons. The first is an SSD produced by Gigabyte, which is not at all associated with storage devices. And yet, this Taiwanese manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is systematically expanding the range of devices offered, adding more and more new types of computer equipment to the range. Not long ago we tested released under [...]
A vulnerability discovered this year in Exchange allows any domain user to gain domain administrator rights and compromise Active Directory (AD) and other connected hosts. Today we will explain how this attack works and how to detect it. Here's how this attack works: An attacker takes over the account of any domain user with an active mailbox in order to subscribe to the [β¦]
Introduction At the end of March, we reported that we discovered a hidden ability to download and run unverified code in UC Browser. Today we will analyze in detail how this download occurs and how hackers can use it for their own purposes. Some time ago, UC Browser was advertised and distributed very aggressively: it was installed on users' devices using malware, distributed with [β¦]
Fujitsu has announced the Lifebook U939X convertible laptop, aimed primarily at corporate users. The new product is equipped with a 13,3-inch diagonal touch display. A Full HD panel with a resolution of 1920 Γ 1080 pixels is used. The cover with the screen can be rotated 360 degrees to switch the device to tablet mode. The maximum configuration includes an Intel Core i7-8665U processor. This chip [β¦]
Amazon may yet make a comeback in the smartphone market, despite its high-profile failure with the Fire phone. Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president of devices and services, told The Telegraph that if Amazon succeeds in creating a "differentiated concept" for smartphones, it would make a second attempt at entering that market. βThis is a large market segment [β¦]
Oracle has created a corrective release of the VirtualBox 6.0.8 virtualization system, which contains 11 fixes. The addition of protection against attacks using yesterday disclosed MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) class vulnerabilities is not mentioned in the list of changes, despite the fact that VirtualBox is listed among the hypervisors susceptible to attack. Probably the fixes are included, but as was already the case, they are not reflected [...]
In May, RUVDS opened a new containment area in Germany, in the country's largest financial and telecommunications city, Frankfurt. The highly reliable Telehouse Frankfurt data center is one of the data centers of the European company Telehouse (headquartered in London), which in turn is a subsidiary of the global Japanese telecommunications corporation KDDI. We have already written about our other sites more than once. Today we will tell [...]
The definition of DevOps is very complex, so we have to start the discussion about it all over again every time. Only on HabrΓ© there are a thousand publications on this topic. But if you are reading this, then you probably know what DevOps is. Because I'm not. Hello, my name is Alexander Titov (@osminog), and we will just talk about DevOps and I will share my experience. Iβve been thinking for a long time about how to make my story useful, so there will be a lot of questions hereβthose [β¦]
Image & Form Games has announced that the role-playing card game SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech will no longer be exclusive to the Nintendo Switch console at the end of May. On May 31, the PC version of the game will premiere, directly on Windows, Linux and macOS. The release will take place on the Steam digital store, where a corresponding page has already been created. The minimum system requirements are also published there (though [β¦]
Testing of the new generation Alfa-X bullet train begins in Japan. The express, which will be produced by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi, is capable of reaching a maximum speed of 400 km/h, although it will transport passengers at a speed of 360 km/h. The launch of the new generation Alfa-X is scheduled for 2030. Before this, as the DesignBoom resource notes, the bullet train will undergo tests [β¦]
Valve has published a build of the Proton 4.2-4 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at running on Linux gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. As soon as it is ready, the changes developed in Proton are transferred to the original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d. [β¦]
An update to the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.0.8 has been released. The main changes include: Correction of errors during the assembly of kernel modules with a non-standard configuration. Fixed errors when trying to restore from a saved VM state. Change in UI: added display of full paths to files in the New Medium window. UI change: Fixed problems with forwarding mouse clicks in multi-screen VM configurations. [β¦]
