Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers' computers. Norton's parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the program and enables customers to profit…

'Mouseable' is intended to replace a mouse or trackpad. - wirekang/mouseable

Impact of JNDI bug mitigated by vulnerable behavior being disabled by default

Impact of JNDI bug mitigated by vulnerable behavior being disabled by default

On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems.

However, something…

The story as I experienced it.

Simply changing the order of some uint variables we managed to drop our memory usage significantly

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how…

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It's come to our attention that there is a zalgo bug in the v1.4.44-liberty-2 release of colors. Please know we are working right now to fix the situation and will have a resolution shortly.

Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency. But Norton 360 isn't alone in this dubious endeavor: Avira antivirus -- which…

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Experts from the James Webb Space Telescope team discuss the successful completion of the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations.

On Sat., Jan. 8, Mission Operations Center ground control at the Space Telescope…

What may end up being one of the greatest Linux kernel features of 2022 is the recently published 'Fast Kernel Headers' effort for cleaning up the kernel headers and dramatically speeding up Linux kernel builds both for absolute/clean and incremental builds

For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.

The recent Log4j vulnerability has exposed systemic problems in how businesses, and the community at large, audit their software.

When the author of faker.js decided to delete his entire repository, it caused thousands of other codebases to break. Is open source a viable concept today?

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This PR adds support for shared-memory parallelism through domains and direct-style concurrency through effect handlers (without syntactic support). It intends to have backwards compatibility in te...