[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: fernflower-211.7442.40-11.fc40

JIdea's decompiler is the first actually working analytical decompiler for Ja va and probably for a high-level programming language in general. Naturally it is still under development, please send your bug reports and improvement suggestions to the issue tracker...

avro vs protobuf

A Kickoff Discussion on Core Aspects of Avro & Protobuf When deliberating on the subject of data structure encoding, a tandem of tools frequently emerges in technical discussions: Avro and Protobuf. Originating from a vision of precise data compression, the distinguishable features and applicatio...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: python-notebook-7.0.7-1.fc39

The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. The Notebook has support for multiple programming languages, sharing, and interactive widgets...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: redis-7.2.4-1.fc39

Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing se...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2024-6ef42a28c9)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

A Bootiful Podcast: programming language archaeologist Ted Neward

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to programming language archaeologist Ted Neward...

Code Written with AI Assistants Is Less Secure

Interesting research: "Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?": Abstract: We conduct the first large-scale user study examining how users interact with an AI Code assistant to solve a variety of security related tasks across different programming languages. Overall, we find that...

What Is Microservices Architecture

Mastering the Essential Elements of Services-Focused Programming The methodology of programming using tiny, interdependent software units, often simplified to 'Microservices', has seen a marked uptick in usage in recent times. This distinct architectural paradigm shapes an application as a group ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: libnbd-1.18.1-2.fc39

NBD =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD Network Block Device =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF =BD is a protocol for accessing Block Devices hard disks and disk-like things over a Network. This is the NBD client library in userspace, a simple library for writing NBD clients. The key features are: Synchronous and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: llvm-17.0.2-1.fc39

LLVM is a compiler infrastructure designed for compile-time, link-time, runtime, and idle-time optimization of programs from arbitrary programming languages. The compiler infrastructure includes mirror sets of programming tools as well as libraries with equivalent functionality...

Analysis and Config Extraction of Lu0Bot, a Node.js Malware with Considerable Capabilities

Nowadays, more malware developers are using unconventional programming languages to bypass advanced detection systems. The Node.js malware Lu0Bot is a testament to this trend. By targeting a platform-agnostic runtime environment common in modern web apps and employing multi-layer obfuscation,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: redis-7.0.13-1.fc37

Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing se...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: redis-7.0.12-1.fc37

Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing se...

ChatGPT writes insecure code

Research by computer scientists associated with the Universite du Quebec in Canada has found that ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular chatbot, is prone to generating insecure code. "How Secure is Code Generated by ChatGPT?" is the work of Raphael Khoury, Anderson Avila, Jacob Brunelle, and Baba Mamadou...

WEBY 1.2.5 Cross Site Request Forgery

==================================================================================================================================== | Title : WEBY v.1.2.5 CSRF Vulnerability | | Author : indoushka | | Tested on : windows 10 Français V.Pro / browser : Mozilla firefox 108.0.132-bit | | Vendor :...

Fedora: Security Advisory for redis (FEDORA-2023-68ae37fca3)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2023 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Android is slowly mastering memory management vulnerabilities

Recently we wrote about why the NSA wants you to shift to memory safe programming languages. The short version is: If you ever read our posts describing security vulnerabilities, you will see a lot of phrases like "buffer overflow", "failure to release memory", "use after free", "memory...

8 Reasons Why Enterprises Use Java

By Owais Sultan Java is one of the most well-known programming languages and software platforms that is used on countless devices… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8 Reasons Why Enterprises Use Java...

Apache Commons Text vulnerability CVE-2022-42889

Updated Oct. 19, 2022 CVE-2022-42889 was recently added to the NVD catalog, with a critical score of 9.8. This vulnerability allows remote code execution RCE in Apache Commons Text. It affects version numbers 1.5-1.9, and an upgrade to Apache Commons Text 1.10.0 disables the problem by default...

Researchers Warn of New Go-based Malware Targeting Windows and Linux Systems

A new, multi-functional Go-based malware dubbed Chaos has been rapidly growing in volume in recent months to ensnare a wide range of Windows, Linux, small office/home office SOHO routers, and enterprise servers into its botnet. "Chaos functionality includes the ability to enumerate the host...