Author: James Steward

Cybersecurity In-DepthSecurity analysts welcomed a recommendation from the US National Security Agency (NSA) last week for software developers to consider adopting languages, such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift, that reduce memory-related vulnerabilities in code.The NSA described these as “memory-safe” languages that manage memory automatically as part of the computer language. They do…

Telephone +972-77-2005042 from 8 AM – 11 PM IL Contact +972-77-2005042 from 8 AM – 11 PM IL News provided by14 Dec, 2022, 16:00 ISTShare this articleThe visual IDE allows roboticists to start using ROS quickly and easily. MOV.AI Flow™ allows users to develop faster, understand ROS-based robotics solutions in an instant, and program robot…

Advertisement Advertisement Embedded.com AdvertisementIntroducing static code analysis tools to the development process can be a daunting task, especially for ongoing projects with an existing codebase. In addition to efforts to select a proper set of guidelines or establish workflows, teams often struggle with productivity drops caused by an initially large number of violations they need…

Coverity customers can now benefit from AdaCore’s GNAT Static Analysis Suite and Ada expertise to ensure the quality, security, and reliability of their Ada code NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AdaCore, a trusted provider of software development and verification tools, today announced that it is collaborating with Synopsys Software Integrity Group, a leading provider of advanced application security…

A botnet tries to brute-force WordPress sites, a warning to Atlassian admins and new ransomware tactics.Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, December 14th, 2022. I’ll start with a warning to WordPress and OpenCart website administrators: A new botnet has been discovered that tries to brute-force its way into poorly-protected websites. Researchers at Fortinet say the…

On Friday, Twitter confirmed that earlier this year someone had potentially exploited a vulnerability that Twitter discovered back in January but took until June to fix. The flaw enabled someone submitting an email address to Twitter’s systems to find an associated phone number (if one existed) and vice versa. Twitter learned that vulnerability was taken…

The Computer History Museum (CHM) has announced the public release and long-term preservation of Adobe’s PostScript source code as part of its Art of Code series. Launched in 1984, PostScript was Adobe’s first product. It became an essential ingredient in the desktop publishing industry, accelerating computing’s transformation of printing and driving Adobe’s growth as a…

DeepMind’s AlphaCode has emerged as one of the hottest open-source code generators, besides OpenAI’s Codex, Tabnine, CodeWhisperer, and others. If you are new to programming, these tools will make you stand out from the crowd. In February this year, the developers at DeepMind examined the potential of AlphaCode by testing it in competitive programming websites where…

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Developers (and, thus, organizations) are increasingly relying on open source code due to its ease of use and collaborative, evolving, flexible, cost-effective nature. By one estimate, 78% of code in codebases is open source. At the same time, it is at risk due to…

by Jamie Redman On Dec. 13, 2022, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), FTX Trading LTD., and Alameda Research. The CFTC alleges that FTX customer deposits, “throughout the relevant period,” including both fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies, were reportedly “appropriated by Alameda for its own use.”The U.S. Commodity…

The Home of the Security Bloggers NetworkHome » Security Bloggers Network » Defeating a dockerized API to get access to source codeA few weeks back, there was some interesting feedback from my article about finding exploitable vulnerabilities in APIs using code review and taint analysis. A couple of people pointed out that they never have…

Google releases dev tool to list vulnerabilities in project dependencies  BleepingComputersource— Note that any programming tips and code writing requires some knowledge of computer programming. Please, be careful if you do not know what you are doing…

Six weeks on from Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover, few words can fully encapsulate events as they have unfolded in the period since. “Chaotic” or “farcical” come pretty close, though, with mass layoffs, u-turns, ultimatums, resignations, crowdsourced ban-reversals, advertiser standoffs, picking fights with Apple, and a revamped verification system that has everyone and their uncle…

Microsoft is sunsetting an experimental research project that uses audio-based technology to help visually impaired people navigate and gain a stronger awareness of their surroundings.However, the company also revealed that it will release the code under an open source license for other developers to use.The technology giant first debuted Soundscape in 2017, essentially setting out…

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a handy little microcontroller that has become a widespread addition to many hackers’ workbench. The Pico W has a CYW4342W module (just like the Pi Zero W) to add WiFi capabilities and [Jeremy Bentham] ported his bare-metal WiFi driver to the Pico W.The CYW43438 is an SDIO interface, so most…

NixOS 22.11 ‘Raccoon’: Like a proof of concept you can do things with  The Registersource— Note that any programming tips and code writing requires some knowledge of computer programming. Please, be careful if you do not know what you are doing…

UPDATED 19:32 EST / DECEMBER 12 2022 by Duncan Riley Uber Technologies Inc. has suffered yet another data breach, with a hacker sharing the stolen data on BreachForums, the successor forum for the now-shuttered RaidForums.The unimaginative hacker goes by the name of “UberLeak.” A post on BreachForums reads, “Hacked by autistic fisherman Arion and scammed…