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May 5, 2021 Back in college, I was very interested in Java bytecode. When I got an internship at Google in 2013, I was skeptical of the security of the Java version of Google App Engine and got permission to spend the last week of my internship doing a mini red team exercise, trying to break into App Engine. This is the story of how I found a vulnerability and developed an exploit to break out of the App Engine sandbox and get arbitrary code execution on a Google server. Background One of the reasons I was skeptical was Java’s poor security track record. Java is unusual among progra...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now How to choose a cloud serverless platform From AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to Knative and OpenFaaS, we have at least a dozen functions-as-a-service platforms to choose from. Here’s how to navigate the options. Credit: Dreamstime Running a server farm in the cloud at full capacity 24/7 can be awfully expensive. What if you could turn off most of the capacity when it isn’t needed? Taking this idea to its logical conc...

Choosing the best PaaS tool for your business Imagine how much more productive your developers can be when they don’t have to worry about maintaining a development platform. To find the best PaaS tool for your business, you need to have an idea of what you’re going to use it for and how much experience your developers have. For novice devs creating simple apps, consider low-code applications. If you’re confident in the skills of your team, you should look for pay-as-you-go platforms that only charge while your code is running. And if you offer custom-built websites, choose a platform th...

Google Cloud donates $350K to fund Python projects Google Cloud donates $350K to fund Python projects Tech giants donates to Python Software Foundation to support CPython maintenance, foundational Python tools and malware detection for the PyPI package repo. Credit: Dreamstime Google Cloud has donated US$350,000 to the Python Software Foundation, with the goals of aiding CPython development, improving foundational Python tools, and beefing up the security of the Python package ecosystem. Three specific projects will be supported by the donation, including productionise...

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