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This is what the monitoring center of the NORD-2 data center located in Moscow looks like. You have read more than once about the measures taken to ensure information security (IS). Any self-respecting IT professional can easily name 5-10 IS rules. Cloud4Y suggests discussing the information security of data centers. The most "protected" objects in ensuring the data center's information security are: information resources (data); processes […]
When choosing a "home" for your website or online project, it's important to keep in mind several simple recommendations to avoid regretting lost time and money later. Our tips will help you build a clear algorithm for selecting paid hosting based on various paid and free content management systems. Tip one: Carefully choose the hosting provider. There are […] in the Russian market.
Introduction Modern corporate content filtering systems from renowned manufacturers such as Cisco, BlueCoat, and FireEye share many similarities with their more powerful counterparts — DPI systems, which are being aggressively implemented at a national level. The essence of both is to inspect incoming and outgoing internet traffic and, based on black/white lists, make decisions […]
The XML language was invented in 1996. As soon as it appeared, its application possibilities began to be misunderstood, and it was not the best choice for the purposes for which it was being adapted. It is not an exaggeration to say that the overwhelming majority of XML schemas I have encountered represent impractical or incorrect uses of XML. Moreover, […]
Security comes at a price, and its absence has to be paid for. Winston Churchill To everyone involved in the security field, we congratulate you on your professional day, wishing you higher salaries, calmer users, and appreciation from management! But what is this holiday? There is a portal Sec.ru that, due to its focus, proposed to declare November 12 a holiday — Day […]
In this article, we will discuss functional dependencies in databases — what they are, where they are applied, and what algorithms exist for their discovery. We will consider functional dependencies in the context of relational databases. To put it simply, in such databases, information is stored in the form of tables. We will further use approximate concepts, which in […]
Researchers from Graz University of Technology (Austria) have disclosed details about a new side-channel attack method, ZombieLoad 2.0 (CVE-2019-11135), which enables the extraction of confidential information from other processes, the operating system, virtual machines, and secure enclaves (TEE, Trusted Execution Environment). The issue affects only Intel processors. Components to mitigate this problem were proposed in yesterday's microcode update. This issue falls under the MDS class […]
After six months of development, the release of the web content management system WordPress 5.3 has been announced. The main changes in the new release are related to the modernization of the visual block editor, which now offers more intuitive management, new layout options, enhanced style support, and improved support for inserting high-resolution images. For those who prefer keyboard management, new […]
Red Hat has announced the formation of a new open project Quay, which will continue the development of the previously closed-source container image registry of the same name that underpins the Red Hat Quay and Quay.io services. The project came under Red Hat’s ownership after the acquisition of CoreOS and was opened as part of an initiative to convert proprietary products of acquired companies into open-source software. […]
For the second consecutive year, research conducted by Forbes and the non-profit research group Just Capital shows that Microsoft is the most ethical public company in the USA. Just Capital researchers surveyed over 4,000 Americans, gathering opinions on 1,000 of the country’s most profitable corporations across 29 questions, including wage pay, benefits, prioritizing diversity, and accommodating individual abilities, while […]
The LinuxBoot project has been around for nearly two years, achieving significant progress during this time. This project is positioned as an open alternative to proprietary UEFI firmware. However, until recently, the system was quite limited. Now, Chris Koch from Google has presented a new version at the Security Summit 2019. It is reported that the new build of LinuxBoot supports booting […]
It has been about two years since the mobile browser Firefox Rocket was launched, which was a lightweight version of the standard browser, featuring a range of exclusive functionalities and was released in select Asian markets. Later, the app was renamed to Firefox Lite, and now the developers have introduced a new version of the software product. The browser is called Firefox Lite 2.0, and it has all […]