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JDK 19: New Targeted Features

Java Development Kit (JDK) v19 is due this September. It has a second feature officially proposed to target it. This includes a vector API to express vector computations, which would undergo a fourth incubation in the next Java release. The other proposed feature is a port of the Java Development

Cybersecurity

Hacktivism: Social Justice by Data Leaks and Defacements

Around the end of February, a hacktivist that calls himself JaXpArO and My Little Anonymous Revival Project breached the far-right social media platform named Gab. They managed to gain seventy gigabytes of data from the backend databases. The data contained user profiles, private posts, chat messages, and more – a lot

Information Security

Apple and Meta Gave Hackers User Data by Forging Requests

The hackers– who may have links to cybercrime group Lapsus$ – are said to have compromised accounts to make emergency data requests on people's accounts that are using Apple and Facebook services. Apple and Facebook parent company Meta provided user data to cybercriminals last year who requested the information by pretending

Cybersecurity

Authentication is still a Nightmare in 2022

Authentication remains one of the most painstaking challenges faced by cybersecurity professionals and researchers. This ranges from a small startup all th way to the biggest organizations. This longstanding and even fundamental element of security continues to cause everyone to have a headache. For the security leaders seeking to identify

Ronin Hack Goes Almost Unknown for a Week

A major hack has resulted in approximately just a little over 600 million worth of cryptocurrency being stolen from Ronin. This was the gaming-focused blockchain network used for the NFT-based game Axie Infinity. Ronin said that roughtly 173,000 Ethereum and 25 million USDC – a stable coin linked to the

Cybersecurity

Attacks of UPS Devices are on the Rise warns CISA

Hackers have now begun to attack internet-connected universal power supply devices. They are targeting their control interfaces via multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities. In some of the cases, they changed the default usernames and passwords, according to an important advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Cybersecurity

Dept. of Justice Charges Three FSB Officers for Cyberattacks

It's finally time that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged three Russian FSB officers and a programmer that worked for a Russian military research institute. The past attacks were against industrial control systems (ICS) operated by critical infrastructure providers. Each of the attacks involve the 2017 Triton malware

Application Layer Attacks can defeat DDoS Protection

Security Researchers have recent observed large application-layered distributed denial-of-service attacks using techniques that could end up foiling DDoS protection and defenses in the past few years. This could be yet another sign of things and change for web application operators. This attack targeted a Chinese Lottery website that uses DDoS

Deno

Deno gets Dramatically Faster Performance for Rust Calls

Deno is now offering us faster calls into Rust are highlighted in the latest version of the Deno secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime – drastically improving performance for everyone who uses the runtime. The Rust enhancement pertains to communication between the Google V8 JavaScript engine leveraged by Deno and the rest of

Cybersecurity

SEC Filings Show the True Cost of Ransomware Attacks

The amount of Ransomware attacks had reached unprecedented levels in 2021, with ransomware threat actors demanding, and in many cases receiving, ransom payments in the multiple sums of millions of dollars. The world’s largest meat processor, JBS, they confirmed in June 2021 that it paid the equivalent of 11

Java

Java 18 is Officially Released

Java Development Kit (JDK) 18 is now available as an official production release. The new version of standard Java has nine new features, including a simple web server and another preview of pattern matching for switch. The OpenJDK page lists the following features as officially targeting JDK 18: a service

Java

Lower Latency for Java Garbage Collection Proposal

Garbage collection in Java – the way which we reallocation of memory through deletion of unused objects – would be improved through a proposal being considered by the developers of standard Java. A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) that is floating ariynd in the OpenJDK Java community calls for highly reducing latency by

Technology Policy

Can We Actually Trust Google?

For a good few years, it seemed that Google lived up to its old motto. Don’t be evil. It also seems that do no wrong in terms of product superiority. Google built its reputation as an ethical company that honestly has outperformed competitors. But is that reputation still deserved

Programming

Java Development Kit 18: The New Features

The newest version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 18 is officially set for release on March 22, 2022. The new version of standard Java will have nine new features, with the feature set having been frozen as of December 9, 2021. This release has moved into a second rampdown

Linux

Understanding Linux's True and False Commands

True and False are the most common concepts in all forms of computing. They’re so highly critical to Boolean logic, but did you know that true and false are also even commands on Linux? There is a simple explanation. This is that the true command generates an exit code

Cybersecurity

Big Tech wants to make Open Source Software more Secure

The major technology companies of the United States – names such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook – came together at an important White House Summit over the weekend to discuss the ways to make the open source software space more secure in light of recent disastrous vulnerabilities. The new standards for

Programming

Understanding Generics in Go Programming Language

The majority of programming languages have the concept of generic functions — code that can easily and efficiently accept one of a range of types without needing any specialization for each one – as long as those types all implement certain types of behaviors. Generics are a massive time-saver. If we have

Web Development

AngularJS has Officially Reached the End of Life.

It's a sad day to announce to developers that the AngularJS JavaScript Framework has officially reached the End of Life (EOL) status. The development team behind the TypeScript-based Angular Framework hopes that users will move forward with the successor of the AngularJS Framework. AngularJS was originally released by Google in

PHP

The PHP Community and Development Sucks

The issues which I have had with the PHP for the last ten years is the community, tutorials and/or guides, and the development of web applications. Yet at the same time, the core of PHP is the amazing people which I have met so far with talent – they have

Big Tech Plans to Work with the Public Sector for Cybersecurity

Both Microsoft, Inc. and Alphabet, Inc. will put a combined $30 billion dollars into cybersecurity over the next five years and work with the public sector on several initiatives to help improve cybersecurity.

Programming

What's Coming in Java 18

The newest version of Java is roughly around six months away right now. The release is starting to take shape with two very good, important feature proposals so far. They are record and array patterns and character sets. [Read More! Java 17 is Officially Released] As of right now, the

Systems Administration

Installing LetsEncrypt Certbot on Debian-based Distributions

LetsEncrypt is one of many Certificate Authorities (CAs) that provide genuine SSL/TSL Certificates to people who want to secure the connection to their website. This allows people to access a website via encrypted HTTPS traffic. The process to make a certificate with LetsEncrypt's Certbot is pretty simple overall. This

Web Development

Angular 13 is Officially Released

Angular 13 – a new version of Google's popular TypeScript language web framework – is now starting to take shape. The two beta releases were released on August 4th and August 11th respectfully. They are both accessible on accessible on GitHub introducing changes to forms and the router. For the changes made

Systems Administration

Important NGINX Directories and Files for Easy Referencing

When it comes to running a web server for all of my online projects, NGINX is the first that comes to mind for me. By default, it follows my guidelines of running a piece of software – meaning that the software is security-minded, performance-driven, and honestly, really easy to manage all

Systems Administration

Installing NGINX on Debian-based Linux Distributions

When it comes to running a web server for all of my online projects, NGINX is the first that comes to mind for me. By default, it follows my guidelines of running a piece of software – meaning that the software is security-minded, performance-driven, and honestly, really easy to manage all