Category: Mix

WordPress GiveWP POP to RCE (CVE-2024-5932)
26
Aug
2024

WordPress GiveWP POP to RCE (CVE-2024-5932)

A few days ago, Wordfence published a blog post about a PHP Object Injection vulnerability affecting the popular WordPress Plugin…

The Real Problem With the Job Market
26
Aug
2024

The Real Problem With the Job Market

Table of Contents The feeling If you’re like me, you’ve had this strange, uneasy feeling about the job market1 for…

What tech leaders do before going on vacation
25
Aug
2024

What tech leaders do before going on vacation

As a technical person who leads a technical team, I know firsthand that it can be easy to get lost…

Building in context | victoria.dev
25
Aug
2024

Building in context | victoria.dev

It’s a comedy classic – you’ve got a grand idea. Maybe you want to build a beautiful new dining room…

Histogram for mypy issues over the last six months
25
Aug
2024

Measuring productivity with GitHub issues

How long does it take for a bug to get squashed, or for a pull request to be merged? What…

Optimizing text for ChatGPT: NLP and text pre-processing techniques
24
Aug
2024

Optimizing text for ChatGPT: NLP and text pre-processing techniques

In order for chatbots and voice assistants to be helpful, they need to be able to take in and understand…

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23
Aug
2024

Retail Under Attack: 6 Learnings from a Retail Customer

1. Retail and E-commerce Are Prone to Credential-based Attacks “Credential-based attacks are evergreen.” When asked what significant security threats are…

A complete guide to exploiting advanced CSRF vulnerabilities
23
Aug
2024

A complete guide to exploiting advanced CSRF vulnerabilities

Cross-site request forgery—or for short CSRF—vulnerabilities are one of the most exploited web security vulnerabilities that result in performing unwanted…

Try it for yourself: the latest PortSwigger Research from Black Hat USA
23
Aug
2024

Try it for yourself: the latest PortSwigger Research from Black Hat USA

Amelia Coen | 23 August 2024 at 07:44 UTC The modern web is constantly developing, with new potential vulnerabilities emerging…

22
Aug
2024

The Data Wall, Agents, and Planning-Based Evals · Joseph Thacker

I’ve been thinking a lot about the whole “data wall” thing with LLMs lately. It’s the idea that LLMs can’t…

Example search
21
Aug
2024

A GitHub guide for non-technical leaders

As I write this, the front page of GitHub.com declares in big bold letters that this is “Where the world…

A picture of my task list
21
Aug
2024

My paper to-do strategy | victoria.dev

Coding up a to-do app may be the Hello, World of every framework, but when it comes to actually tracking…