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Bar & Bench's Khadija Khan pens a personal account of her experience of dealing with the 'Bulli Bai' incident.

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 22,886,013 individuals or 97.8 per cent of the adult population in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as of Monday (Jan 10), just 2.2 percentage points to go to achieving a 100 per cent rate.

It appears that an open-source developer has intentionally fried two widely used javascript libraries. The commits to faker.js and colors.js caused programs using them to get stuck...

A developer has corrupted a pair of popular open-source libraries on Microsoft-owned platform GitHub, leaving thousands of users stunned

Bulli Bai app case: If you have been seeing this app in the news and wondering what is really the case with this, then read on.

Faker.js and color.js started generating gibberish data after a developer update

Bulli Bai app case: If you have been seeing this app in the news and wondering what is really the case with this, then read on.

The two code libraries have been downloaded millions of times and have thousands of software projects depending on them.

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 11 deaths due to Covid-19 were recorded on Saturday (Jan 8), the lowest figure since April 25 last year which reported 10 fatalities.

Users of popular open-source libraries colors and faker were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out theres more to the story.