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A critical security flaw in the Rust standard library could be exploited to target Windows users and stage command injection attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-24576, has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. That said, it only impacts scenarios where batch files are invoked on Windows with untrusted arguments. “The Rust standard library […]
A new phishing campaign is leveraging decoy Microsoft Word documents as bait to deliver a backdoor written in the Nim programming language. “Malware written in uncommon programming languages puts the security community at a disadvantage as researchers and reverse engineers’ unfamiliarity can hamper their investigation,” Netskope researchers Ghanashyam Satpathy and Jan Michael Alcantara said. Nim-based […]
Threat actors are increasingly shifting to “exotic” programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim, and Dlang that can better circumvent conventional security protections, evade analysis, and hamper reverse engineering efforts. “Malware authors are known for their ability to adapt and modify their skills and behaviors to take advantage of newer technologies,” said Eric Milam, Vice […]
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new malspam campaign distributing a fresh variant of a malware loader called “Buer” written in Rust, illustrating how adversaries are constantly honing their malware toolsets to evade analysis. Dubbed “RustyBuer,” the malware is propagated via emails masquerading as shipping notices from DHL Support, and is said to have affected […]
Microsoft’s TypeScript programming language has seen steady growth in recent years. Now, for the first time, TypeScript has officially entered the list of top 10 programming languages published by RedMonk. Currently, TypeScript is placed in the 10th position on the list this month. We can expect TypeScript to experience an upward surge in the coming […]
Python vs. R is a raging debate topic between members of the data scientist community. Both languages are used for data science and analysis and they offer advantages and disadvantages depending on the work you are doing. To help data scientists choose the right language, a computer science professor named Norm Matloff from the University […]
Telegram is a popular privacy-focused encrypted instant messaging service. Recently, the messenger platform announced the launch of a new programming language ‘Fift’, created for its Telegram Open Network (TON). According to a post published on the project’s Telegram channel, the Fift language has been specifically designed for developing and managing TON blockchain smart contracts. The […]
The widely used object-oriented programming language C++ has finally gained back its position in the top three slots for the most popular programming languages ranked by the TIOBE Index. It marks the return of C++ after September when Python snatched the third position in the programming languages list. Back then, C++ managed to occupy the fourth slot, Java and C […]
I bet most programmers cannot imagine life without Stack Overflow. The Q&A site for coding has received millions of programming queries since its creation and JavaScript was the most queried language on the platform, until now. According to a Global App Testing report, Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most questioned programming language on Stack […]
After spending months in Beta version, Scratch 3.0 has been finally released. It brings major changes such as support for tablets and implementation of an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript-based extension system instead of the previously used Flash. This visual programming language was created to teach kids how to code. After more than a decade since its launch in 2007, […]
This year, GitHub has seen increasing enthusiasm among the coders towards “more statically typed languages” that are focused on type safety and interoperability. The top spot was occupied by Kotlin, whereas TypeScript and Rust gained a significant pace this year. Besides these, HCl, a human-readable language for DevOps has seen twice the number of contributors using this […]
Python is once again the top programming language, according to IEEE Spectrum’s fifth interactive ranking for leading languages that was released recently. Spectrum ranks the languages by weighting and combining 11 metrics from 9 sources. The main feature of this ranking is that it is interactive and offers 5 ranking for 4 different platforms. Platforms: […]
2016 was the year when Apple’s homegrown programming language Swift made waves and started growing at a fast pace. In 2017, Kotlin made similar strides after Google announced the official support for Android. Overall, it means that trends keep changing each year and the developers should adapt themselves accordingly. Just earlier this month, a report […]
Over the past year, the adoption of Kotlin programming language has increased at a rapid pace. Apart from its long list of great features, Google’s announcement of making Kotlin an officially supported language for Android development was a major reason behind the same. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin can also be used on various applications […]
Microsoft launched a free version of its Quantum Development Kit in September 2017, at its Ignite Conference. This kit included Q# programming language (pronounced “Q Sharp”), a quantum computing simulator, and other stuff to help you write your first quantum program. Now, the company has announced updates to its Quantum Development Kit. To bring more developers aboard, […]
Learning a programming language involves some important decisions on the part of a professional. Gone are the days when one mastered a single popular programming language and it granted job security. Highlighting these limitations of reliance on a single programming language, Coding Dojo coding school has shared the results of an interesting study. No company […]
Most of the fields in the tech industry demand a regular learning from you as they are dynamic in nature. You need to be up-to-date with the latest trends and make sure that your skillset matches the needs of your target industry. For developers, this change becomes even more necessary. For example, today’s mobile app […]
At its Ignite Conference, in late September, Microsoft listed Quantum Computing among three key technologies which are going to change the tech industry as we know it. The company also announced its plans to release a new programming language for quantum computers later this year. 2017 is about to end and that day has come. […]
It’s not hidden that apart from working to make its existing product better and bring a reliable transportation service to the users, Uber is also investing efforts in autonomous cars and artificial intelligence. To give something back to the developer community and improve their products, Uber has announced the open source release of Pyro. Pyro […]
When we take sparse data into consideration, the analytic algorithms have to perform lots of additions and multiplications by zero. To imagine such situation, take an example of a big table of Amazon customers against all its products–1 is assigned for each product bought by a customer and 0 if no purchase is made. To avoid […]
It’s a well-known fact that your choice of a programming language decides the growth of your career as a developer. For example, if you’re an Android developer, you must start learning Kotlin programming and join the army of developers who are ready to walk with the changing trend. The same could be said for iOS […]