Часа два назад услышал в подъезде подозрительную возню и переговоры по рации.
Потом вдруг в дверь постучал пожарный, поинтересовался, все ли в квартире в порядке.

Вышел на улицу, а там:


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So, unless you’ve been hiding under a rock this week, you’ve definitely heard about a historical global partnership deal forged between IBM and Apple this Tuesday. The whole Internet’s been abuzz for the last few days, discussing what long-term benefits the partnership will bring to both parties, as well as guessing who will be the competitors that ( Read more... )

Since launching its Web Services in 2006, Amazon has been steadily pushing towards global market leadership by continuously expanding the scope of their services, increasing scalability and maintaining low prices. Last week, Amazon has made another big announcement, introducing two major new services with funny names but a heavy impact on the ( Read more... )

It really didn’t take long after my last blog post on SCADA security for an exciting new development to appear in the press. Several security vendors, including Symantec and F-Secure, have revealed new information about a hacker group “Dragonfly” (or alternatively “Energetic bear”) that has launched a massive cyber-espionage campaign against US and ( Read more... )

Office 365 is a popular cloud-based office productivity service built around Microsoft Office platform. Initially released in 2011, it has gone through a major upgrade in 2013 and is currently offered with different plans for home, small business, midsize and enterprise customers. Internally, Office 365 platform uses Microsoft Azure Active ( Read more... )

If you have attended our European Identity and Cloud Conference this May, you have probably noticed that, as opposed to the previous years, a significantly bigger part of the agenda and a substantial number of expo stands has been devoted to practical “down to earth” aspects of IT security. Multifactor authentication, encryption technologies, ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday, eBay Inc. has announced that their user database has been compromised, and hackers were able to get away with “encrypted passwords and other non-financial data” of more than 145 million of eBay customers. eBay has informed us that financial information has not been affected and that they have not detected any increased fraudulent ( Read more... )

A few days ago, while announcing their new Advanced Threat Protection initiative, Piero DePaoli, Symantec’s director of product marketing has made a provocative statement, proclaiming that ‘AV is dead’. His colleague Brian Dye said that antivirus software only catches around 45% of malware attacks, and that the company is shifting its focus towards ( Read more... )

Третьего дня вернулся из поездки на остров Мадейра. После трехлетнего перерыва возобновил занятия дайвингом, ну и по окрестностям поездил заодно.

Традиционная карта из FourSquare:



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Two weeks have passed since the day the Heartbleed Bug has been revealed to the world, and people around the world are still analyzing the true scale of the disaster. We’ve learned quite a lot during these two weeks:

• After Cloudflare initially expressed doubt that the bug can really leak SSL private keys, they were quickly proven wrong by security ( Read more... )