European cyberspace is witnessing a paradigm shift as governments are grappling with the reality that the cyber framework in their jurisdiction is vulnerable to gargantuan prominence. One such forward ...

When an open-source component reaches end of life (EOL), the risks extend far beyond that single package. Most components rely on third-party libraries, creating chains of transitive dependencies.

Recently I encountered some strange behavior where the DependencyInsight recipe would sometimes fail to identify a specified transitive within a dependency that did actually contain the searched ...

Abstract: Database normalization is a ubiquitous theoretical relational database analysis process. It comprises several levels of normal forms and encourage database designers not to split database ...

In a cautionary tale for vibe coders, an app-building platform's AI went rogue and deleted a database without permission during a code freeze. Jason Lemkin was using Replit for more than a week when ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed the inner workings of an Android malware called AntiDot that has compromised over 3,775 devices as part of 273 unique campaigns. "Operated by the financially ...

A malicious package recently uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) is the latest manifestation of the growing sophistication of software supply chain threats. Security researchers at JFrog ...

Cybersecurity researchers from SafeDep and Veracode detailed a number of malware-laced npm packages that are designed to execute remote code and download additional payloads. The packages in question ...

While extreme weather events have unfortunately become more common and already figured last year in the top three, geopolitical risk is something business leaders increasingly have to deal with. Over ...