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As discussed between me and @mikedld from time to time.
C++'s std:: tools are more useful than the bespoke tools in libtransmission's C code. Nearly every time I go in to fix or cha...

Plus: A TrickBot hacker arrest, a Fortinet VPN password leak, and more of the week's top security news.

Remembering that time Fox News covered GitHub

Personal webpage of Fabian Mentzer.

ForewordJavalin is a very lightweight Java and Kotlin web framework which focuses on simplicity and Java/Kotlin interoperability.The codebase is about 7000 l...

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This post is dedicated to the memory of Kate Fox. You will not be forgotten.

While analyzing the phone of a Saudi activist infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, we discovered a zero-day zero-click exploit against iMessage. The exploit, which we call FORCEDENTRY, targets Apple’s image rendering library, and was effective against…

Between the 3 Sept and 10 Sept, secure env vars of *all* public @travisci repositories were injected into PR builds. Signing keys, access creds, API tokens. Anyone could exfiltrate these and gain lateral movement into 1000s of orgs. #security 1/4 travis-…

I’ve been using Go for a few years now, mostly in my open source project Lazygit. In my day job I use Ruby and Typescript, and I’ve also spent some time with Rust. Each of those languages have design quirks that can grind a developer’s gears, and although…

Despite many infamous quirks, the server-side language seems here to stay.

In April 2021 Microsoft announced a new version of its IDE — Visual Studio 2022 — while also announcing that the IDE would be 64-bit…

Wiz Research recently discovered a series of alarming vulnerabilities that highlight the supply chain risk of open source code, particularly for customers of cloud computing services.

Version 14.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 838 char...

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The pandemic has exacerbated stressful work conditions for software developers. Here are strategies developers can adopt to manage stressors on the job.

It is not the fault of Turing, though.

Summary "Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed" Can be problematic, especially for SSO/OAuth/SAML logins where the...

Security code reviews is a task that I do on a daily basis, and have been doing for the last thirteen and a half years. In this time, I have reviewed several hundred code bases, and have come acros…