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In the first two quarters of 2020, the number of DDoS attacks increased nearly threefold, with 65% of them being primitive attempts at "stress testing" that easily "take down" vulnerable websites of small online stores, forums, blogs, and media outlets. How to choose a DDoS-protected hosting? What to pay attention to and what to prepare for to avoid finding yourself in an unpleasant situation? […]
The sixth corrective update for Debian 10 has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 53 updates addressing stability problems and 32 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Changes in Debian 10.6 highlight updates to recent stable versions of the packages cargo, rustc, gssdp, gupnp, and postgresql-11. For download and installation […]
>In Buildroot, after a brief discussion, a series of patches proposed by IBM employee Alexander Egorenkov was accepted, adding support for IBM Z. Support is provided for several recent generations of devices: z13 (2015), z14 (2017), and z15 (2019). When asked about the use of Buildroot within IBM, it was stated that the image is used to build test environments, particularly syzkaller. Buildroot is a system […]
The second release of the composer for Wayland took place modestly and unobtrusively. Project features: support for Lua extensions, built-in window manager (with optional tiling support), hotkeys similar to Emacs, support for dbus, GPL license. Release highlights: porting from libweston (with plans to eventually phase out wlroots), integrated Wayland shell, improvements in render debugging, part of the features mentioned above. Website […]
This article will discuss the challenges of organizing network infrastructure in a traditional way and the methods to resolve the same issues using cloud technologies. For reference, Nebula is a SaaS cloud environment for remotely managing network infrastructure. All devices supporting Nebula are managed from the cloud via a secure connection. You can manage a large distributed network infrastructure from a single center, not […]
Percona XtraBackup is a tool for hot backups of MySQL databases. During the backup process, table locking does not occur, allowing your system to continue functioning without any restrictions. XtraBackup 2.4 can back up InnoDB, XtraDB, and MyISAM tables on MySQL servers 5.11, 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7, as well as on the Percona server for MySQL with XtraDB. For working with MySQL 8.x, you should use XtraBackup version 8.x. In this […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI—Wine 5.18—has taken place. Since the release of version 5.17, 42 bug reports have been closed and 266 changes have been made. The most important changes include: wined3d now compiles shaders through the Vulkan API using the vkd3d-shader library, which is included in the vkd3d package. The USER32 library has been transformed into PE format. The console implementation has been freed from dependencies […]
On September 24, the development team announced the release of PostgreSQL version 13. In this new release, the main focus, among other things, was on improving performance, speeding up internal maintenance services, and simplifying database monitoring, as well as providing more reliable access control to the system. Work continued on optimizing table indexing concerning the handling of duplicates among indexed data in binary […]
The release of the cataloger, viewer, and editor of electronic books Calible 5.0 has taken place. Key changes in the new version include a new ability to highlight, color, and add annotations to text fragments, as well as a full transition to Python 3. In the new release, you can highlight the text that interests you and apply color highlighting, as well as formatting styles (underline, strikethrough…) and […]
In this article, we will explore the components of Terraform and step-by-step launch our own infrastructure in the cloud with VMware — preparing three VMs for different purposes: proxy, file storage, and CMS. Everything is covered in detail across three stages: Terraform — description, advantages, and components Building the infrastructure Initializing the infrastructure Working with Terraform on existing infrastructure 1. […]
The emergence of Chromebooks marked a significant moment for American education systems, allowing them to purchase affordable laptops for students, teachers, and administrators. Although Chromebooks have always run on a Linux-based operating system (Chrome OS), until recently, most Linux applications could not be run on them. However, everything changed when Google released Crostini — a virtual machine allowing the execution of […]
On the forum 4chan and the file-sharing service Mega.nz, an unknown person published an archive (torrent, 43 GB) that includes the complete source texts of the Windows XP SP1, Windows Server 2003, MS DOS 3.30, MS DOS 6.0, Windows 2000, Windows CE 3, Windows CE 4, Windows CE 5, Windows Embedded 7, Windows Embedded CE, Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NT 4 operating systems […]