The Python security team removed two trojanized Python libraries from PyPI (Python Package Index), its official package repository.
At the start of last month, Google and Stanford University researchers released a report on a largely legal yet dubious practice in the advertising industry. It’s called ad injection.
According to a press release from the Department of Justice on November 29, 2019, Virgil Griffith, resident of Singapore and U.S. citizen, was arrested for a criminal complaint where he was charged with violating, “…
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SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S.-based foundation overseeing promising semiconductor technology developed with Pentagon support will soon move to Switzerland after several of the group’s foreign members raised concerns about potential U.S. trade curbs.
XSS-Freak is an xss scanner fully written in python3 from scratch. it is one of its kind since it crawls the website for all possible links and directories to expand its attack scope. then it searches them for input tags and then launches a bunch of xss payloads.
How come AdBlock, Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin, Ghostery, Brave and Firefox are letting a third-party tracker from Eulerian, a leading tracking company, execute their script freely on fortuneo.fr, one of the biggest online bank in France?
The goal of this research was to try and see if websites hosted on Bluehost, Dreamhost, HostGator, OVH, or iPage could be compromised with one click client-side vulnerabilities.
On October 16, 2019 Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered a wide-open Elasticsearch server containing an unprecedented 4 billion user accounts spanning more than 4 terabytes of data. A total count of unique people across all data sets reached more than 1.
WordPress Plugins Exploited in Ongoing Attack, Researchers Warn
Researchers warn users of several plugins to update as vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to redirect website visitor traffic. Researchers are warning of an ongoing campaign exploiting vulnerabilities in a slew of WordPress plugins.
Read MoreSoftware sector braces for a split among leading companies
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Read MoreThe End of Agile
I knew the end of Agile was coming when we started using hockey sticks. Every morning, at precisely eight o’clock, the team of developers and architects would stand around a room paneled in white boards and would begin passing around a toy hockey stick.
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Ubuntu 15.10 running on i5-6500 CPU. Fedora 24 running on i5-6500 + i7-6600U CPU.
Read MoreSoftware Architecture Guide
Enterprise Architecture groups often get separated from day to day development. This can lead to their knowledge of development work getting out of date and development teams not taking a broad company-wide perspective.
Read MoreFacebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project
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Read MoreThe Browser Monopoly
There is really only one Big Tech monopoly that I actively worry about. It’s not Amazon, Facebook or Apple, though they are all extremely dominant in their respective fields and do act in anti-competitive ways that merit regulatory remedy.
Read MoreBitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
Want to steal some Bitcoin? All you need to do is find your victim’s 16-character public key and calculate their private key by solving something called an “elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem.
Read MoreSoftware Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm IOActive, plans to present his findings, including the details of multiple serious security flaws in the code for a component of the 787 known as a Crew Information Service/Maintenance System.
Read MoreWeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full. I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment.
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