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Developers have lessons to learn from the incident, too. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Stack Overflow, a popular site among developers, has revealed more about a week-long breach that it disclosed in May 2019.  Stack Overflow said at the time that the attackers accessed user account data, and now the company says that after consulting with law enforcement, it can reveal more about what happened and how a newly registered user came to have m...

Vulnerabilities in build systems, secrets in source code: developer environments are an attack target Tim Anderson Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 19:31 UTC Share Copy Developer site Stack Overflow has published details of a breach dating back to May 2019, finding evidence that an intruder in its systems made extensive use of Stack Overflow itself to determine how to make the next move. At the time, the company reported that an unauthorised person had logged into its development syst...

What Does “Run as Administrator” Mean in Windows 10? Jan 27, 2021, 8:00 am EDT | 2 min read If you use Windows 10, you’ve no doubt seen the phrase “Run as administrator” at some point. But what does it mean? Here’s why it’s important, how it works, and when to use it. Administrators Have Full System Access There are two types of accounts in Windows: Standard user accounts and Administrator user accounts. Administrator accounts can configure system settings and access normally rest...

by Rust China Conf is the largest grassroots event for the Rust programming language in China. The 2020 edition of this conference was held in Shenzhen, China, on December 25th and 26th. It is co-organized by the Rust China Community, Second State, and Huawei. Even in the middle of a global pandemic, the conference attracted over 300 in-person attendees and over 5000 developers watched the conference’s live stream. A diverse group of developers and researchers joined the conference as speaker...

Also: Departures from Redmond, going big with Surface Hub, and celebrating third place Richard Speed Mon 18 Jan 2021 // 12:28 UTC Share Copy In brief Build 21292 of Windows 10 arrived for Dev Channel Windows Insiders last week and while there was little of interest, the team was delighted to note that it had continued to work on the x64 emulation in the Arm edition of the operating system. Arriving later than expected, the x64 emulation in Windows 10 on Arm allows the ru...

bugs.xdavidhu.me (and more) 2019, October 11, 00:16: I finish the cold frozen pizza that I made hours before but forgot to eat, finally write the report, press submit on the Google security bug submission form, and see the classic, Thanks! We received your report. message. That feeling is hard to beat. I just submitted a bug, using which, I could simply send a link to someone, and when they click on it and visit my website, I could steal their YouTube watch history, the links to watch all of...

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Maybe I can add yours a JSON view and call it done :) Interesting! I have it in the backlog that I want to support structured logging via JSON at some point. Its pretty far down the list right now though since I personally havent used structured logging very much. I added an issue about it: https://github.com/JackBister/logsuck/issues/7 - if you want to chip in with any comments or even help out with implementing it itd be much welcomed! My main problem makin...

Amazons Fire tablets are incredibly popular, mostly because theyre incredibly cheap. However, none of them come with access to the Google Play Store, which is how most Android devices download and install applications. Instead, Fire tablets come bundled with the Amazon Appstore, which has a much smaller library and lacks any Google-made apps and services. No YouTube, no Chrome, and so on. The good news is that its not incredibly difficult to install the Play Store on a Fire tablet, and the whol...

When dealing with advice for open source projects my steps are: - Google and go to first SO answers (I totally gave up on asking for advice there, is an old discussion but with low karma forget to ask, it will get closed immediately so you have to be lucky that someone with good reputation made a similar question) - HN search engine and go to the comments of some post related to what I need. It might take some more time but some of the comments have been gold to me - Project m...