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What corporate software is installed in your company? CRM, project management system, helpdesk, ITSM system, 1C (did we guess right)? Do you have a clear sense that all these programs duplicate each other? In fact, overlaps in functions do occur; many issues can be resolved with a universal automation system — we advocate this approach. However, there are departments or groups of employees where […]
If your company transmits or receives personal data and other confidential information that must be protected according to legislation, GOST encryption is required. Today, we will share how such encryption was implemented using the S-Terra crypto gateway for one of our clients. This story will be interesting to information security specialists, engineers, designers, and architects. We will not delve deeply into the nuances […]
Arch Linux developers have announced their intention to incorporate support for the zstd compression algorithm in the Pacman package manager. Compared to the xz algorithm, utilizing zstd will speed up the compression and decompression operations of packages while maintaining the compression level. Consequently, moving to zstd will increase the speed of package installations. Support for package compression using zstd will appear in the upcoming pacman release […]
Google has removed the WireGuard (open VPN) Android app from the Google Play store due to violations of payment processing rules. WireGuard is an open-source application that is distributed for free and does not participate in monetization through advertising. The violation was due to a link in the app settings labeled 'Donate to the WireGuard Project,' which directed users to a donation page for its development […]
An update to the Solaris 11.4 operating system, SRU 14 (Support Repository Update), has been released, offering a series of further fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the suggested fixes from the update, simply execute the command 'pkg update'. In this release: Variants of all Perl modules included in Solaris for Perl 5.26 have been prepared; versions of programs rsyslog 8.1907.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.45 have been updated; […]
The relevance of blocking access to prohibited resources concerns any admin who may officially be accused of failing to comply with laws or orders from relevant authorities. Why reinvent the wheel when there are specialized programs and distributions for our tasks, such as: Zeroshell, pfSense, ClearOS. Another question arose from management: Does the product we use have a security certificate from our country? We had experience […]
Hello, Habr! I had an idea to connect my Raspberry Pi to the internet wirelessly. Said and done, I purchased a USB Wi-Fi dongle from the well-known brand TP-Link at a nearby store. I want to clarify that this is not some tiny USB module; it is a fairly sizeable device about the size of a regular flash drive (or if you prefer, about the size of an adult's index finger […]
Subscribe, it’s interesting there! 😉 How did this happen? After a tough journey from a graduate of the radiophysics department, to an employee of a state scientific institution, to a lecturer of an author course at my beloved alma mater, I finally became a respected employee in the R&D department of a very cool augmented reality startup, Banuba. Great company, exciting tasks, a demanding schedule, excellent conditions, and salary… but after […]
1. There was just a little way left to the final goal – about a third of the journey – when the spacecraft fell under a severe informational icing. The remnants of the fallen civilization floated in the void. Paragraphs of scientific essays and images from literary works, scattered rhymes and just sharp phrases, once casually thrown by unknown beings – all appeared convoluted and extremely disordered. And […]
The Operations Director of the portal Banki.ru, Andrey Nikolsky, spoke at last year's DevOpsDays Moscow conference about orphan services: how to identify orphans in the infrastructure, the issues with orphan services, what to do with them, and how to cope when nothing helps. Below is the text version of the report. Hello, colleagues! My name is Andrey, I lead the operations at Banki.ru. We have large services, […]
The OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) has released version 5.0 of the Suricata network intrusion detection and prevention system, which provides tools for inspecting various types of traffic. Suricata configurations allow for the use of a signature database developed by the Snort project, as well as the Emerging Threats and Emerging Threats Pro rulesets. The project's source code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key changes: New modules have been introduced […]
Contents: How can we compare countries by cost of living today? About purchasing power parity Why BIM (engineers and coordinators) Conclusion 1. Different gross = equal net Conclusion 2. The lower the gross, the more m² Where the data came from Methodology for calculating PPP indicators Quite often, in conversations with people from other countries, we start comparing salary levels. […]