ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Vamosi: Imagine being able to attack a company’s servers without leaving a trace. Fuzzing involves sending invalid input to stress test software - either the program can handle the invalid input or it can’t. Gibberish was being imputed and the program sometimes did and did not behave as expected. Amazon Music.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on cloud, OS, and programming topics, but there should be enough other interesting links to be useful to plenty of folks. (At This article on eBPF and Isovalent (the company behind the Cilium CNI plugin for Kubernetes) has some statements with which I agree, and some that don’t make sense to me.

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Hacker Earth

JANUARY 20, 2019

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of Indian software developers. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian software developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. His predecessor, Don Johnson, has taken on a new role that points to the longtime database company’s broader ambitions in the cloud. Photo by Marc Fiorito / Gamma Nine Photography, via Oracle.).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It was not a literal time machine, but a way of capturing the software development process by recording intervals and storing them in the close. Then, when a vulnerability was discovered later on, a developer could go back in time and find the moment the fault was introduced into the code. He called it Time Stone.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This episode looks at how fuzz testing has evolved over the years, how open source projects have for the most part gone untested over time, and how new efforts to match fuzzing to software development are today helping to discover dangerous new vulnerabilities before they become the next Shellshock. And it's a doozy program.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This episode looks at how fuzz testing has evolved over the years, how open source projects have for the most part gone untested over time, and how new efforts to match fuzzing to software development are today helping to discover dangerous new vulnerabilities before they become the next Shellshock. And it's a doozy program.

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Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

Vox

MARCH 14, 2023

The bank UBS estimates that it took two months for the software to gain 100 million monthly active users ; for comparison, TikTok took nine months, and Facebook took four and a half years. Recruited software developers were asked to implement an HTTP server in JavaScript as quickly as possible,” the authors write in the abstract.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

John Deere is one of the companies at the center of a nationwide reckoning over the right to repair. Right now, tech companies like Samsung and Apple and John Deere all get to determine who can repair their products and what official parts are available. John Deere is famously a tractor company. How should they get upgraded?

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