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5 stages of the inevitability of accepting ISO/IEC 27001 certification. Denial

When any strategically important decision is made for the company, employees go through a basic protective mechanism well-known as the 5 stages of response to change (by E. Kubler-Ross). The outstanding psychologist once described emotional reactions, highlighting 5 key stages of emotional response: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally, acceptance. We have prepared a series of articles dedicated to ISO 27001 certification, where […]

PoE Technology in Q&A

This article presents key points on using power over Ethernet (PoE) in a popular Q&A format. It covers differences between standards, provides information on surge protection for devices, and discusses other useful aspects. What is PoE? PoE (Power over Ethernet) is a technology that supplies power to a client device through a twisted pair of Ethernet standards (usually […]

Web browser Min 1.13 released

The release of the web browser Min 1.13 has taken place, offering a minimalist interface built around address bar manipulations. The browser is created using the Electron platform, allowing for the development of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports navigation […]

A vulnerability in pppd and lwIP allows remote code execution with root privileges.

A vulnerability has been identified in the pppd package (CVE-2020-8597), allowing the execution of custom code by sending specially crafted authentication requests to systems using the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) or PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) protocols. These protocols are commonly used by providers for establishing connections over Ethernet or DSL, and are also used in some VPNs (such as pptpd and openfortivpn). To check for vulnerability in your […]

9 Tips for Windows Terminal from Scott Hanselman

Hello, Habr! You might have heard that the new Windows Terminal is coming soon. We've already written about it here. Our colleague Scott Hanselman has prepared some tips on how to work with the new terminal. Join us! So, you've downloaded Windows Terminal and... what's next? At first, you might not be thrilled. After all, it's still a Terminal, and it […]

Windows Terminal Preview v0.9

The release of version 0.9 of Windows Terminal has taken place. This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features until the release of v1. You can download Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the releases page on GitHub. Let's take a closer look at the update details! Command Line Arguments The wt alias now supports command line arguments. You can now launch the Terminal with […]

Organizing deployment across multiple k8s environments using helmfile

Helmfile is a wrapper for helm that allows you to describe multiple helm releases in one place, parameterize their charts for different environments, and set order for their deployment. You can read more about helmfile and examples of its use in the README and best practices guide. We will explore less obvious ways to describe releases in helmfile. Suppose we have […]

Ransomware distributors threaten to publish stolen data.

Positive Technologies has released a comprehensive report that examines current cyber threats and trends in the world of cybercrime. Overall, the cybersecurity situation is worsening. In the last quarter of 2019, the number of unique incidents increased by 12% compared to the previous quarter. At the same time, the share of targeted attacks rose by 2%, reaching 67%. Cybercriminals continue to actively use […]

systemd 245 is available with the implementation of portable home directories

After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 245 has been presented. The new release includes new components systemd-homed and systemd-repart, support for portable user profiles in JSON format, the capability to define namespaces in systemd-journald, and support for the 'pidfd' mechanism. The project's website has been completely redesigned, consolidating most of the available documentation and featuring a new logo. […]

RabbitMQ. Part 3. Understanding Queues and Bindings

Queue is a data structure on disk or in memory that stores references to messages and provides their copies to consumers. A Queue represents an Erlang process with state (where messages can be cached). 1,000 queues may take up about 80MB. Binding is a rule that informs the broker to which queue messages should be directed. […]

Installing Firebird 3 on modern versions of Linux: CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19

In this article, we will describe the minimum set of actions required for the optimal installation of Firebird DBMS version 3.0 on new Linux distributions. The examples will focus on CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19. For the 'delivery' of the Firebird distribution to the target system, this guide has chosen the option of downloading a tar.gz archive from a link on the official project site (firebirdsql.org). For the most impatient — right away […]

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