January 20, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on FAQ: What’s happening with 5G and airport safety?
Even if you’re not a frequent flyer, you’ve probably heard that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and numerous airlines are claiming that AT&T and Verizon Wireless’s recently approved C-Band 5G will dangerously interfere with airplanes take offs and landings. Will this new 5G be … Continue reading
January 18, 2022
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Comments Off on Open Source Security at the White House
There’s no question that open source security and supply chain security has become top of mind issues in the aftermath of the Apache Log4j security problem quartet and the SolarWinds security fiasco. But so important that the White House would call a meeting … Continue reading
January 13, 2022
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Comments Off on When open-source developers go bad
Chances are unless you’re a JavaScript programmer, you’ve never heard of the open-source Javascript libraries ‘colors.js‘ and ‘faker.js.” They’re simple programs that respectively let you use colored text on your node.js, a popular JavaScript runtime, console, and create fake data for testing. Faker.js is used … Continue reading
January 12, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open source isn’t the security problem – misusing it is
We’re going to be cleaning up Apache Log4j security problems for months to come, but the real problem isn’t that it was open-source software. It’s how we track and use open-source code. When security vulnerabilities were found in the extremely popular … Continue reading
January 6, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Salt Security Finds Serious GraphQL API Security Hole
GraphQL, the open source query language for application programming interfaces (APIs), is very powerful. With great power comes great responsibility, as Spider-Man reminds us, and sometimes developers go badly wrong. And, that’s exactly what happened, according to Salt Security, a leading … Continue reading
January 19, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Parler, the right-wing social network is dead, but a zombie webpage remains
After Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Web Services (AWS) shut down the right-wing social network Parler, Parler CEO John Matze claimed Parler will be back with “many competing for our business.” Well. No. That didn’t turn out to be the … Continue reading