The Daily WTF

JANUARY 4, 2023

When looking at code which juggles threads, there are definitely a few red flags. sleep s spammed through the code is an obvious one- either wait on a shared resource or block on another thread or something , but spurious sleep s are suspicious. This code starts a worker thread. In three lines, we have so much story. "This

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Tenable

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This will in turn yield not only more secure applications, but also better optimization of resources, skills and time, during a period when organizations are stretched to the limit. In fact, this move away from tool and vendor sprawl, and towards unified tool sets will not be limited to the cloud security realm.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Then click ‘Create Function’ Note: To provision your resources in AWS we advise the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, or AWS CDK. These tools eliminate manual resource creation and enforces consistency. A layout displaying a counter in the Block Kit Builder.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

You can download the source code here: vulnap p. They can be overcome by taking measures to counter them. Download or clone the OWASP ZAP source code here. Start a terminal and ‘cd’ to the folder containing the ZAP source code. Once you are in the ZAP source code root folder, ‘cd’ into the docker folder.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

This question is irrelevant to the candidate’s job performance and can create a hostile work environment.” – Bonnie Whitfield, Human Resources Director of Family Destinations Guide (FDG) 2. Do you consider yourself to be an overly sensitive person? Has your family ever been a detriment to your career?

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Xebia

MARCH 14, 2023

For a specific example, let’s compare a unit test with a property-based test for code that should work properly with numbers between 0 and 100. Shrinks inputs when the property fails so users can get friendlier counter-examples of their failed tests. It can be a challenging task because properties need to be deterministic.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Five IT security-related jobs that are in high demand right now are systems security administrator; network security engineer; systems security manager; data security analyst; and IT auditor, according to the human resources consulting firm. And here are the average starting salaries for some of those “hot” cybersecurity roles in the U.S.,

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CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2017

If your organization has something of value to a foreign government here are five cyber attack counter-measures you should be implementing. Code signing has been around for a while but IT organizations don’t like setting up PKI services to generate and verify digital certificates. Partition Supply Chain Resources.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Check out what they said about the size of their cyber toolset and about their ability to prioritize cyber risk across their attack surface. cyber agency delves into ransomware’s criminal ecosystem Noting that ransomware gangs and their partners continue to adapt, the U.K.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 23, 2019

When Workers Control the Code (Wired) -- workers form co-ops to code and run gig economy apps, and make decent rates because there's no rent-seeker platform in the middle. A great counter for rising prices and plummeting driver pay post-IPO. via BoingBoing ).

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As little as 5% of the code of production machine learning systems is the model itself. The model itself (purple) accounts for as little as 5% of the code of a machine learning system. In ML, you typically deploy the code that builds, optimizes, and deploys the model itself. Adapted from Sculley et al.

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InfoBest

MAY 25, 2023

To counter these threats, developers must implement security measures like encryption, access controls, and secure storage to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. Implement Secure Coding Practices Secure coding practices are fundamental for developing a secure software application.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Visualisation techniques like EventStorming can also be used to design code.

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InfoBest

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The online world is a huge resource that has enriched out lives in many ways both personally and professionally. They have adopted automated techniques, which many businesses still do no use, and have effective counter-incident response protocols. This is why the number of incidents is increasing dramatically. . SQL injection .

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Develop secure code, following principles like: Least privilege. Source code evaluation. Deliver code safely through practices like: Scan binaries with software composition analysis tools to ensure the integrity of the final build and create a software bill of materials (SBOM). Unsecured third-party resources.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Imagine a universe in which a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sets Guinness World Records for the size of its online space battles—and that game is built on 20-year-old code. Well, imagine no more.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 8, 2020

In that sense, the ‘coding’ is actually part of the business, and they are essentially an applied software company. if they are going to do the work themselves, then it is also super important that they take it seriously and acquire enough experienced resources that it has at least reasonable quality. The counter is also true.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“Over time, however, the distinction between social media and traditional media has blurred, and perhaps the time has come for social media to be subject to the same rules and codes that apply to broadcasters, news outlets and advertisers. Ideally, basic ethical components would be designed into social media platforms before they are built.

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Trigent

APRIL 14, 2022

In a borderless economy, where businesses fiercely compete for resources and market share, it is fair to expect re-architecting systems and networks to maximize customer benefits and increase employee flexibility. How will you make the Distributed Enterprise future-ready?

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Netlify

JUNE 23, 2020

If you’d like to skip straight to the code, you can see the app demo or review the source code on GitHub. The demo code will be unchanged — it just won’t look as freakin’ sweet as the demo base does. ??. To start writing code, click the “clone or download” button and copy the URL to your clipboard. TODO: build an app!

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Code Simplicity

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They see one problem in the code, they tackle it until nobody’s complaining anymore, and then they move on to tackling the next symptom they see. Let’s say you have a web page and you write a “hit counter” for the site that tracks how many people have visited it. times as many visits as it should be counting.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Travelers arrive at the terminal and join the line to the check-in counter, then go through the whole hassle of security check, followed by another line to the passport control and the final check at the gates. In airports, this is done on counters handled by airline staff, but there are alternatives. At an airport. Baggage handling.

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Exadel

JUNE 10, 2020

These delays run counter to the goals and promises of most DevOps groups and organizations. . Developers who are going to be writing new code, or changing existing code, are authorized and trusted by the system. Only trusted people with a digital signature may transfer their changes to the code in the master branch.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 18, 2024

Migrating to the cloud is an essential step for modern organizations aiming to capitalize on the flexibility and scale of cloud resources. Tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation are pivotal for such transitions, offering infrastructure as code (IaC) capabilities that define and manage complex cloud environments with precision.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In response, many officials are exploring regulations or codes of practice aimed at improving IoT security. This includes network segmentation, which creates “least access” zones for IoT devices by their function, so that particular device type can only converse with the network resources they need.

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The Programmer's Paradox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Each bit of code needs to do what it needs to do. All analysis and design needs to flow into helping to create actual code. Never lie to any users Lying causes misinformation, misinformation causes confusion, confusion causes a waste of time and resources, lack of resources causes panic and short-cuts which results in a disaster.

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The Plain Programmer

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In many monolithic applications a database tends to act as the source for identifiers used for resources. Snowflake’s identifiers encoded the service instance that generated them, along with a timestamp, and a simple counter to avoid collisions when generating 10,000+ identifiers per second.

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Perhaps the most valuable resource for engineers writing code is uninterrupted time. But sometimes, all the socialization in the world won’t counter depression and anxiety. One resource that they provide to all employees is Joyable , a digital therapy solution that offers access to personal coaches.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 3, 2021

The malware can contain an exploit kit that automatically executes malicious programmatic code that performs a privilege escalation to the system root device level, where it will grab credentials and attempt to discover unprotected network nodes to infect via lateral movement. Enable Device Encryption.

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Praxent

APRIL 22, 2020

Adding IT resources might help — but finding developers who work with the code your system is built with is getting harder and harder. In these situations, a deadly resource race can develop — between maintaining and fixing up the old system vs. reworking and adding onto the new. Sound familiar? Time to change your mindset.

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Existek

AUGUST 9, 2021

It is more accessible from the coding and algorithms perspective. So, if a company’s main strength is advanced functionality, building the client-side themselves would be a waste of project resources. In terms of the limited time and financial resources, companies have to come up with new approaches to software development.

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Stacks on Stacks

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The company is a major player in this competitive industry, with a presence at over 2,000 counters in more than 30 countries and online. We didn’t have the time nor people to spend countless hours configuring resources- and really didn’t want to be patching servers to keep it running a year in the future.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Headlines are full of claims (and counter claims) regarding ethical lapses in the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government. There are personal ethics, frequently referred to by ethics professors as “sandbox values” or “Sunday school ethics”; professional ethics, the codes of conduct specified by various disciplines (e.g.,

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Perficient

MARCH 16, 2023

GPT-4 Codes Anything I asked GPT-3 to tell us about a for-loop. projects, organizing components, pages, and resources. They enable you to keep large dependencies, sensitive information, and direct access to backend resources on the server side, resulting in improved performance for your application.

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A List Apart

MARCH 20, 2018

That’s a somewhat unfair question to counter with. In server-side code, you can check Accept for the image/webp substring. Here’s how that might look in Express back-end code: const WebP = req.get("Accept").indexOf("image/webp") indexOf("image/webp") !== -1 ?

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Honeycomb

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In standard metrics tools, you are typically working with counters that track numbers as they change over time. Each one of these counters or gauges will generate one unique time series on disk. More than just metrics. So we try to add more context using tags or labels, which generate new time series.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The workload of GS2 is computationally heavy where CPU is the limiting resource. Consolidating on the larger instances reduces the amortized cost of background tasks, freeing up additional resources for serving requests and potentially offsetting the sub-linear scaling.

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