On October 25th, I found a bug in the Anti-Exploit driver of Malwarebytes v3.6.1.2711 that caused BSOD and finally exploited it to achieve an EoP from a standard user to SYSTEM. In short, it’s a combination of incomplete input validations and an insecure manner of accessing
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VMware is actively exploiting a vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10. At least one valid exploit has been made public, and successful efforts to hack servers running the vulnerable software have been made in the wild. VMware product vulnerability gets a severity rating of 9.
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For companies running their own datacenter, setting up internal DNS infrastructure is essential for performance and ease of maintenance. Setting up a single DNS server for occasional requests is pretty straightforward, but scaling and distributing requests across multiple data centers is challenging. In this post, we’ll describe the evolution
Although the main interface between applications and a Vitess database is through the MySQL protocol, Vitess is a large and complex distributed system, and all the communication between the different services in a Vitess cluster is performed through GRPC. Because of this, all service boundaries and messages between Vitess’ systems
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It was launched in January of 2020, when we made the fly “hemibrain” connectome available on the internet — an online database that provides the morphological structure and synaptic connection of almost half of the brain of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). This database and its related visualisation has redefined the
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Released back in 2013, VeraCrypt picks up where TrueCrypt left off. Supporting more encryption algorithms, more hash functions and a variable number of hash iterations, VeraCrypt is the default choice for the security conscious. VeraCrypt has no known weaknesses except one: once the encrypted disk is mounted, the symmetric, on-the-fly
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Cloudflare Tunnel allows you to connect applications securely and quickly to Cloudflare’s edge. With Cloudflare Tunnel, teams can expose anything to the world, from internal subnets to containers, in a secure and fast way. Thanks to recent developments with our Terraform provider and the advent of Named Tunnels it’
A lot of JavaScript that runs in the browser nowadays runs quicker than it did two decades ago. And so that occurred as a result of the browser makers devoting time to rigorous speed enhancements. To accomplish our goals today, we are beginning our efforts to enhance JavaScript performance for
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Prosus, the company which develops online programming education programmes, said that it has inked a deal to buy Stack Overflow, an online community for software professionals, in anticipation of increased demand for online programming instruction. Stack Overflow is based in New York, though it is privately owned. The firm uses
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1. The A Priori Argument (also, Rationalization; Dogmatism, Proof Texting.): A corrupt argument from logos,starting with a given, pre-set belief, dogma, doctrine, scripture verse, “fact” or conclusion and then searching for any reasonable or reasonable-sounding argument to rationalize, defend or justify it. Certain ideologues and religious fundamentalists are proud
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Writing assembly is itself an art. When C, C++, or any other language is compiled, the compiler determines the art of writing assembly. However, this time, we will some of the techniques and decisions we can make to write these ourselves. We will use RISC-V to see how to design
API gateways are an integral part of microservices architecture in recent years. An API gateway provides a single point of entry for all our apps and provides an interface to access data, logic, or functionality from back-end microservices. It also provides a centralized place to implement many high-level responsibilities, including