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Building High-Performance Web Applications: Leveraging WebAssembly and Rust
In today’s fast-paced digital world, the performance of web applications has never been more critical. Users demand instant responses, seamless interactions, and rich functionalities. To meet these demands, developers are constantly exploring new technologies that promise to enhance the performance and capabilities of web applications. One such powerful combination is WebAssembly (Wasm) and Rust. This…
VLC 2.0.0 “Twoflower” Final Released
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How NBC’s Russian Hack Actually Happened, According to the Security Expert Who Set It Up
{{< youtube waEeJJVZ5P8 >}} A couple days ago, NBC News ran a report pegged to the Sochi Olympics about Russian hacking. In it, correspondent Richard Engel uses a “brand new” smartphone to test out the Russian internet while hanging out in a Moscow cafe. “Almost immediately,” he says in the segment, “we were hacked.” Naturally,…
Germany’s CERT warns against Firefox use
BürgerCERT, Germany’s government information security organization, is recommending that Web users NOT use the Firefox browser until Mozilla fixes a vulnerability in it March 30. No malicious use has been found yet, however a researcher posted proof-of concept code for exploiting the previously unknown vulnerability. A malicious operator could use the vulnerability to run arbitrary…
