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Research presented this week at the Black Hat Europe 2017 security conference has revealed that several popular interpreted programming languages are affected by severe vulnerabilities that expose apps built on these languages to attacks.
The author of this research is IOActive Senior Security Consultant Fernando Arnaboldi. The expert says he used an automated software testing technique named fuzzing to identify vulnerabilities in the interpreters of five of today's most popular programming languages: JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
[...] The researcher released XDiFF as an open source project on GitHub. A more detailed presentation of the testing procedure and all the vulnerabilities is available in Arnaboldi's research paper named "Exposing Hidden Exploitable Behaviors in Programming Languages Using Differential Fuzzing."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 12 2017, @03:00PM (2 children)
WTF? So, if I make a shell script, that makes me a programmer? A shell script is a language? Really? Javascript is a language? Hey, Buzzard! Move over, bro, I'm a programmer too! Come on, fat chicken, make room for me, I wanna diddle with the thingamabob!! Whoohoo, this is fun!
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 12 2017, @06:09PM
Naw, you gotta write your bugs in such a way that they function properly on dev but not on prod if you want to break SN like we do. Or be martyb.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday December 12 2017, @06:13PM
Assuming you can write functional javascript, you can likely write a functional program. Personally, I've been dabbling with Python. It may not be the greatest language in the world, but it's quite fun to work with. I created my own little program to give me a call number cutter given a specific word. Works great! I got the idea from a Dewey Cutter program. My program saves me quite a bit of time when I have to come up with my own cutters. I took programming classes in College that went over Java and C++. (BS-Computer Information Systems) A year or so ago, I took the free Codecademy Python course and have been playing with it ever since. Python is very beginner friendly. Before that I had been dabbling with some C# in VirtualStudio and wrote a little program to replace a barcode generating program. Currently working on a game with my Wife, Brother, and Sister In-Law. I'm the "programmer" and overall lead designer, but I hardly have any artistic talent in me. Wife can draw awesomely, and got my brother /sister in-law into writing some story. This is so true as well: https://www.xkcd.com/627/ [xkcd.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"