My 71 TiB ZFS NAS has been running for 10 years without a single disk failure
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS server, built from twenty-four 4-terabyte disks, is over ten years old and still works great. Although it now has a second motherboard and power supply,…
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5 non-standard pocket DIY computers and more: strange gadgets around us
Hello, tekkix! This is Viktor Sergeev from MTS Digital. Among the huge number of various models of user devices, sometimes very unusual ones come across. Some of them…
"Sand" technologies: about the architecture and techniques for bypassing sandboxes
Hello! My name is Alexey Kolesnikov, I work in the malware detection department of the Positive Technologies security expert center, in the PT Sandbox team.
Case study of code analysis
Greetings to all tekkix readers. If you throw out administrative work, then my main activity at work is finding various vulnerabilities. Most often, my toolkit consists…
Leica introduced a digital camera without a display
The German company Leica introduced the digital camera M11-D, which does not have a digital display. It is noted that the device is designed for those who want to focus…
Analysis of vulnerability CVE-2024-7965
On August 21, the Chrome browser received an update that fixed 37 security-related bugs. The attention of researchers around the world was drawn to the vulnerability…
Searching for malicious activity in Windows using command line logging and process trees
This publication is a translation of the article - HUNTING FOR MALWARE WITH COMMAND LINE LOGGING AND PROCESS TREES by Vanja Svajcer. The article is about how to use command…
Problems of personal data protection in the world of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is now largely everywhere. In any industry, we are told that neural networks, machine learning, and other AI directions are used in it. Systems…
Arbiter Studio Polar 75 Pro: universal keyboard with magnetic switches. What kind of device is this?
Hello, tekkix! This is Viktor Sergeev from MTS Digital. Today we will talk about the Arbiter Studio Polar 75 Pro keyboard. It can be said that a keyboard is good, a keyboard…
IDP и OCR в вопросах и ответах: Главное, что нужно знать
When we were preparing this material, we argued for a long time about which characters could be used to visually compare OCR and IDP. The Coen brothers, Thor and Loki,…
Garak: Red-Team tool for finding vulnerabilities in LLM
«ChatGPT reveals personal data of real people!», «Side-channel attack on ChatGPT!», «ChatGPT chatbot caused a leak of confidential data!», «Hackers started using ChatGPT…
About the AIOps profession: trendy, youthful, lucrative, but not yet taught
Hello tekkix! Let's talk about AIOps. As a profession, similar to the role of a DevOps engineer, AIOps has not yet formed into a clearly defined position. In companies,…
Understanding what S3 is and creating a simple object storage on Go
Hello, tekkix! Matvey Mochalov from cdnnow! is with you again, and in this post, we will not be dealing with FFmpeg - this time our "Eeeeeexperiments!" section will cover…
Ruling perch with SeteZor
Good afternoon, dear tekkix readers. In this article, dedicated to the Setezor product, a description of the integration with the Acunetix web resource vulnerability…
How Reddit became the most influential social network in the world, and whether anyone can repeat the success in Russia
Hello! I am Zhenya, CPO at the corporate messenger Compass. I often study the stories of large companies and popular services. This helps to look at non-standard successful…
Bypassing VPN Blocking
My provider, in addition to slowing down YouTube, has also started blocking connections to my work VPNs. My employer doesn't really like it when I answer for a week at…
Social engineering or how the efforts of security professionals are shattered by the human factor
Information security specialists create systems that resist cyberattacks. They implement firewalls, configure monitoring, write security policies, and train employees.…
Is "Vasya" always to blame: debunking myths about the human factor in information security
High-profile cybersecurity scandals in which employees of large companies and government agencies were found guilty have become one of the main topics of the past three…
