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Xenoblade Chronicles has become a major franchise for Nintendo over the past decade, thanks to two main installments and one spin-off. Fortunately for fans, neither the publisher nor Monolith Soft intends to abandon the series in the coming years. In an interview with Vandal, Monolith Soft's head and creator of the Xenoblade Chronicles series, Tetsuya Takahashi, stated that the studio is focused on further developing […]
A group of researchers from the Free University of Amsterdam has identified a new vulnerability (CVE-2020-0543) in the microarchitectural structures of Intel processors, notable for allowing the recovery of the results of certain instructions executed on another CPU core. This is the first vulnerability of the speculative execution instruction mechanism that permits data leakage between separate CPU cores (previous leaks were limited to different threads of a single core). The researchers named this issue […]
Details have been disclosed about a vulnerability (CVE-2020-12695) in the UPnP protocol that allows traffic to be sent to arbitrary recipients using the standard operation 'SUBSCRIBE.' This vulnerability has been given the code name CallStranger. It can be used for data extraction from networks protected by data leak prevention (DLP) systems, for scanning ports of computers within the internal network, and to amplify DDoS attacks using millions of connected […]
The GhostBSD project creates a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. A new version of GhostBSD 20.04 has been released, addressing a number of issues related to installation and ZFS during setup. Innovations include replacing gnome-mount and hald with FreeBSD devd and Vermaden automount, which make the automatic mounting and unmounting of external devices more stable and […]
Updating atime affects system performance. What is going on and what can be done about it — read in the article. Whenever I update Linux on my home computer, I have to deal with certain tasks. Over the years, this has become a habit: I back up my files, wipe the system, install everything from scratch, restore my files, […]
In IT, there is a concept known as End User Computing — computing for end users. How, where, and in what ways can such solutions assist, and what should they be like? According to today's requirements, employees want to be able to work securely from any device, anywhere. Technological aspects make up about 30% of the incentives for engaged employees, as reported […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Exim mail server 4.94 has occurred, incorporating accumulated fixes and adding new features. According to a May automated survey of about a million mail servers, Exim's share is 57.59% (up from 53.03% last year), Postfix is used on 34.70% (up from 34.51%), Sendmail — 3.75% (down from 4.05%), and Microsoft Exchange — 0.42% (down from 0.57%). Changes in the new […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-13777) has been identified in the GnuTLS library, which is used by default in many packages within Debian, including the package manager APT and many utilities, allowing a previously stopped TLS session to be resumed without the knowledge of the session key. Practically, this vulnerability can be exploited for MITM attacks. The vulnerability is caused by incorrect construction of the session ticket key — the TLS server did not bind the session key […]
nnn (or n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's incredibly fast, lightweight, and virtually requires no setup. nnn can analyze disk usage, rename files in bulk, launch applications, and select files. There are tons of plugins and documentation in the repository for further extending its capabilities, such as previews, disk mounting, searching, and diffs for files/directories, as well as an independent (neo)vim plugin. […]
This is the second part of the 'series' on Russian school education and the opportunities for IT to enhance it in various areas. For those who haven't read it, I recommend starting with the first part. I want to clarify that this article is not about the optimal choice of subjects for the Unified State Exam (EGE) or the debate between 'jocks' and 'nerds.' It largely focuses on integrity and efficiency. At the end […]
Hello. According to Einstein's simplicity theory, the main indicator of understanding a subject is the ability to explain it as simply as possible. In this post, I will try to explain the functioning of just one detail of the new standard as clearly and thoroughly as possible, which for some reason the Wi-Fi Alliance deems unworthy of mention in the infographic about the new features of Wi-Fi 6, although it is, as we will soon […]
The full power of interacting with APIs is revealed when used together with programming code, allowing for the dynamic formation of API requests and tools for analyzing API responses. However, the Python Software Development Kit (hereinafter — Python SDK) for Check Point Management API remains relatively unnoticed, which is a pity. It significantly simplifies life for developers and automation enthusiasts. Python […]