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Most Expensive Healthcare App Security Fails in 2018–2019

Most Expensive Healthcare App Security Fails in 2018–2019

In 2019, the average cost for a corporate data breach reached almost $4 million. Let’s take a look at a few of these attacks to learn what went wrong and secure your business from such risks. MyFitnessPal MyFitnessPal is a typical fitness application. It allows users to log cardio

How Rainbow Tables Work

How Rainbow Tables Work

I found the creator of Rainbow Table’s paper, aimed at cryptanalysts, was pretty inaccessible considering the simplicity and elegance of Rainbow Tables, so this is an overview of it for a layman. Hash functions map plaintext to hashes so that you can’t tell a plaintext from its hash.

Understanding Rust Lifetimes

Understanding Rust Lifetimes

Intro The first thing one needs to realize about lifetimes is that they are all about references, and nothing else. For example, when we see a struct with a lifetime type-parameter it refers to the lifetimes of the references owned by this struct and nothing else. There is no such

Why ownership/borrowing in Rust Programming is hard

Why ownership/borrowing in Rust Programming is hard

Working with pure functions is simple: you pass arguments, you get a result — no side effects happen. If, on the other hand, a function does have side effects, like mutating its arguments or global objects, it’s harder to reason about. But we’ve got used to those too: if

Manual Memory Management in Go using jemalloc

Manual Memory Management in Go using jemalloc

The purpose of this post is to document our trial, error, and best findings with regards to manual and automatic memory collection in Go. Our excitement for Go has gone beyond building systems, and has led us to even write scripts in Go that would typically be written in Bash