In October 2017, we learned of a vulnerability in Telegram Messenger’s Windows client that was being exploited in the wild. It involves the use of a classic right-to-left override attack when a user sends files over the messenger service.

In the past few weeks, the entire information security industry has grown very anxious about Meltdown and Spectre, two classes of exploits that can be used to manipulate vulnerabilities in the way many varieties of modern processors (but especially Intel…

When you switch from C++ to a more “friendly” language, you get this strange feeling of being fooled by this new language, its environment…

I came across an article yesterday about programming languages, which hit on one of my major peeves, so I can't resist responding. The article is at greythumb.org, and it's called Programmer's rant: what should and should not be added to...

Law enforcement has trained special dogs to find hidden thumb drives and cell phones that human investigators routinely miss, and it's foiling predators, terrorists, and other criminals.

Clearly, Go is the winner here, followed by Java, Node and finally PHP.

CredSSP vulnerability in Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) affects all versions of windows and allows hackers to steal data and run malicious code.

Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…

Lately I’ve been writing a game engine in C++. I’m using it to make a little mobile game called Hop Out. Here’s a clip captured from my iPhone 6. (Unmute for …

Critical Remote Code Execution (CVE-2018-0171) Vulnerability in “Cisco Smart Install” of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Leaves Hundreds of Thousands of Network Switches Open to Hackers.

After years of being left for dead, SQL today is making a comeback. How come? And what effect will this have on the data community?

CMake is a versatile tool that helps you build C/C++ projects on just about any platform you can think of. It's used by many popular open source projects including LLVM, Qt, KDE …

by Amit Joshi, Andrew Leung, Corin Dwyer, Fabio Kung, Sargun Dhillon, Tomasz Bak, Andrew Spyker, Tim Bozarth

Researchers from NVIDIA, led by Guilin Liu, introduced a state-of-the-art deep learning method that can edit images or reconstruct a corrupted image, one that has holes or is missing pixels.

If you’re into mobile app development, the name of React Native mustn’t be new for you. The term has been trending in the world of…

The flaws can expose emails sent in the past and "pose an immediate threat."

Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.