One of the largest Vietnamese crypto trading platforms, ONUS, recently suffered a cyber attack on its payment system running a vulnerable Log4j version. Soon enough, threat actors approached ONUS to extort $5 million and threatened to publish customer data…

Posted in r/programming by u/mariuz • 154 points and 26 comments

Most of my readers are probably aware of the Y2038 issue by now. If not, it refers to 3:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038, when 32-bit time_t will overflow. The Linux kernel has internally switched to 64-bit timekeeping several years ago, and Alpine made the…

Adding more context to our Pull Requests got them merged two days faster. Here's how it works...

There's more to code than just instructions.

A small but noteworthy change that landed today for the GCC 12 compiler itself is support for using the Mold linker.

Posted in r/programming by u/fagnerbrack • 127 points and 35 comments

An overview walk-through of all the core components that are involved in the execution of JavaScript code.

Imagine you wrote a program for a pleasingly parallel problem, where each thread does its own independent piece of work, and the threads don’t need to coordi...

Dear @msexchangeteam. The FIP-FS “Microsoft” Scan Engine Failed to Load. Can’t Convert “2201010001” to long.

Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination…

Posted in r/programming by u/flexibeast • 99 points and 58 comments

Almost Always Unsigned # Written by Dale Weiler
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The need for signed integer arithmetic is often misplaced as most integers never represent negative values within a program. The indexing of arrays…

Posted in r/programming by u/henje_ • 99 points and 3 comments

Microsoft acknowledges the Exchange issue leads to Email Stuck in Transport Queues.

A log4j vulnerability filesystem scanner and Go package for analyzing JAR files. - google/log4jscanner

What is a LAN? What is a network segment? How are L1, L2, and L3 segments related? What does it take to send an IP packet from one host to another? What is the difference between LAN, VLAN, and VXLAN?

Last possible entire version of c# doc/tutorial by Microsoft.

Posted in r/programming by u/donutloop • 173 points and 21 comments

Ebitengine is an open source game engine for the Go programming language. Ebitengine's simple API allows you to quickly and easily develop 2D games that can be deployed across multiple platforms.

Microsoft released Visual Basic 1.0 for MS-DOS in 1992, at a time when many users and businesses were still using DOS. It was actually the second Visual Basic release; coming after the Windows version 1.0 in 1991.