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My main job mostly consists of software system deployment, which means I spend a lot of time trying to answer questions like: The developer says this software works, but it doesn't for me. Why? Yesterday this software worked for me, but today it doesn't. Why? This is a kind of debugging that's a bit different from regular software debugging. […]
Hi everyone, my name is Alexander, I work at CIAN as an engineer and I'm involved in system administration and the automation of infrastructure processes. In the comments to one of our previous articles, we were asked to explain where we get 4 TB of logs per day and what we do with them. Yes, we have a lot of logs, and a separate infrastructure cluster has been created for their processing, which […]
At the end of 2019, several Russian entrepreneurs approached the cybercrime investigation department of Group-IB with a problem regarding unauthorized access by unknown individuals to their messages in the Telegram messenger. Incidents occurred on iOS and Android devices, regardless of which federal mobile operator the affected person was using. The attack started with a message arriving in the Telegram messenger […]
Attention! This article is not technical and is intended for readers looking for Best Practices in High Load and fault tolerance for web applications. Likely, if you are not interested in learning, this material will not be of interest to you. Imagine a situation: you've launched a promotion with discounts for some online store, and like millions of others, you decided to buy something very important […]
Hello everyone! Today, the second beta version of the Chromium-based mobile browser Vivaldi for the Android platform has been released. The list of main changes includes: Closing tabs with a swipe, Enabling scrolling on internal pages, Improved cell sorting, Drag-and-drop for the Speed Dial, Ability to create a new folder directly on the Speed Dial, Editing and deleting Speed Dial cells, Clearing the trash with one button, Option for permanent loading of the desktop […]
The specialized Linux distribution CAINE 11.0 has been released, designed for forensic analysis and hidden information retrieval. This live build is based on Ubuntu 18.04, supports UEFI Secure Boot, and comes with Linux kernel 5.0. The distribution allows for the analysis of residual information after a breach on Unix and Windows systems. It includes a wide array of utilities for work. Notably, it features a specialized tool […]
The release of the nftables 0.9.3 packet filter has been published, evolving as a replacement for iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables by unifying the packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges. The nftables package includes user space components for the packet filter, while the kernel-level operation is provided by the nf_tables subsystem, which is part of the Linux kernel […]
The most popular example of Java code published on StackOverflow turned out to contain an error that leads to incorrect results under certain conditions. This code was posted in 2010, has accumulated over a thousand upvotes, and has been copied into many projects, appearing in GitHub repositories around 7,000 times. Notably, the error was not discovered by users copying this […]
Testing has begun for the first alpha version of the installer for the next major release of Debian — 'Bullseye'. The release is expected in about one and a half to two years. Key changes in the installer include: Mentions of CD and CD-ROM have been replaced with 'installation media'; In apt-setup, the generation of strings in sources.list files for updates related to security issue fixes has been redesigned. The {dist}-updates strings have been renamed to {dist}-security. Separation of blocks in sources.list is allowed […]
The studio The Astronauts, creators of the adventure game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, has been working on a new project — Witchfire — for over two years. A year ago, the developers stated that the release of this horror shooter about witch hunting would likely not happen until 2020. In the latest update on the official blog, there is no mention of release dates, but the authors shared gameplay snippets from […]
Technology companies and mobile gadget manufacturers have long been advertising various ways to reduce the negative impact of blue light emitted by device screens on users' eyes and overall well-being. In the new version of the popular browser Opera 55 for the Android platform, an updated dark mode is introduced, which will help reduce eye strain when interacting with the gadget. The main […]
The death of coral reefs is a huge problem currently facing oceanographers. An international team of scientists from the UK's Exeter and Bristol universities, as well as Australia's James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science, claims that "acoustic enrichment" could be a valuable tool in helping to restore damaged coral reefs. Working on the analysis of the dying Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the scientists […]