Latest Hacking News Podcast #295

Advanced Linux Backdoor Discovered in the Wild, Restaurant Chains Checkers and Rally’s Credit Card Data Breach, Google Announces New Privacy

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SitePoint Premium New Releases: Docker, Phoenix, VS Code + More

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Phoenix Web Development

Learn functional programming through building a high-performance functional prototype of a web app from scratch using Elixir and Phoenix. Understand the Elixir Concurrency and parallelization model to build blazingly fast apps. Test, debug and deploy your web apps using the Phoenix framework.

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Debugging with Visual Studio Code: An Introduction

Learn to use Visual Studio Code's built-in debugging features which permit easier debugging and variable monitoring. Discover how you can improve your debugging experience!

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Docker Cookbook Second Edition

Docker is an open source platform for building, shipping, managing, and securing containers. This book includes practical exmaples showing you how to manage containers efficiently; how to integrate with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes; and best practices on improving the efficiency and security of containers.

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Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 in C# and VB

This book covers how to get started with ASP.NET 4.5.1; how to overcome common HTML and CSS formatting problems; techniques for managing server controls; creating consistent page layouts; the ASP.NET state engine; modifying SQL data; and also jQuery, LINQ, the Entity Framework, and security.

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A Pocket Guide to HTML Email

Creating HTML emails is often thought of as an unpleasant and neglected part of web design, but email is hugely important for reaching out to your users, customers and clients. In this book, Andy shows you how to design and build responsive email your customers and clients will love to receive.

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2.3 billion files exposed online

Millions of the files that are sitting out in the open across various file storage technologies are actually encrypted by ransomware

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Graphic Design Service Canva Suffers Data Breach Affecting 139 Million Users

A recent victim of a security incident turns out to be the Australian tech firm Canva. The hacker(s) with alias

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Joining Three or More Tables in SQL

Here you will learn about joining three tables in sql with example.

Let us consider three tables Employee, Department and Project. We will see the complete example wherein these 3 tables are joined to produce a result:

Table Employee

This table records the Id of the Employee which is the primary key, the name of the working Employee, the Department Id of the Department they are working in and the Project they are working for.

• EId – Primary key which holds Id of the Employee.
• EName – Name of the Employee.
• DId – Department Id of the Department, the Employee is working in.
• PId – Project Id of the project the Employee is working for.

Table creation:

CREATE TABLE Employee(EId int primary key,  EName varchar(20), DId int, PId int)

INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(1, Ramesh)

INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(2, Somesh)

INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(3, Rajesh)

INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(4, Ram)

INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(5, Ishi)

INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(6, Rekha)

INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(7,Mukesh)

This table looks like:

EId	EName	DId	PId
1	Ramesh	3	1
2	Somesh	2	3
3	Rajesh	1	5
4	Ram	3	4
5	Ishi	2	3
6	Rekha	4	2
7	Mukesh	1	5

Table Department

This table contains the Department an Employee Its attributes are:

• DId – This is the Department Id of the Department and it is the primary key in this table.
• DName- This holds the name of the Department.

Table creation:

CREATE TABLE Department(DId int primary key, DName varchar(20))

INSERT INTO Department VALUES(1, Manufacturing)

INSERT INTO Department VALUES(2, HR)

INSERT INTO Department VALUES(3, RnD)

INSERT INTO Department VALUES(4, Accounting)

INSERT INTO Department VALUES(5, IT)

DId	DName
1	Manufacturing
2	HR
3	RnD
4	Accounting
5	IT

Table Project

Holds the Project name an Employee is dealing in. It contains the following attributes:

• PId – Project Id, the primary key of the table.
• PName – Project N

Table Creation:

CREATE TABLE Project(PId int primary key, PName varchar(20) )

INSERT INTO Project VALUES(1, Machine Learning)

INSERT INTO Project VALUES(2, Taxes)

INSERT INTO Project VALUES(3, AskHR Portal)

INSERT INTO Project VALUES(4, Blockchain)

INSERT INTO Project VALUES(5, CAD)

INSERT INTO Project VALUES(6, PR)

PId	PName
1	Machine Learning
2	Taxes
3	AskHR Portal
4	Blockchain
5	CAD
6	PR

Now, we have already created the three tables we need to work on. Let us consider a case where we need to display the Employee Name, the Department Name and the Project Name together, we would require to join the three tables:

• Apply INNER JOIN on the first two tables.
• Apply INNER JOIN on the resultant of the two tables and the third table.

If, we have more than three tables with us, we can simply extend the same procedure to multiple tables, i.e, take the resultant of (n-1) tables and join with the nth table.

As far as this example is concerned, we will have the QUERY as:

SELECT

Employee.EId, Employee.EName, Department.DName, Project.PName

FROM

( (Employee INNER JOIN Department ON Employee.DId = Department.DId)

INNER JOIN Project ON Employee.PId = Project.PId);

The resultant table would be:

EId	EName	DName	PName
1	Ramesh	RnD	Machine Learning
2	Somesh	HR	AskHR Portal
3	Rajesh	Manufacturing	CAD
4	Ram	Rnd	Blockchain
5	Ishi	HR	AskHR Portal
6	Rekha	Accounting	Taxes
7	Mukesh	Manufacturing	CAD

Hence, we can conclude that the joining of the table is as easy as it is important. Once we get familiar with joining two tables, we won’t have to worry about joining multiple tables.

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Week in security with Tony Anscombe

ESET researchers show how Turla has refreshed its malicious toolkit and how, in an effort to evade detection, the group uses PowerShell to inject malware directly into memory

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Hackers Stole Customers' Credit Cards from 103 Checkers and Rally's Restaurants

If you have swiped your payment card at the popular Checkers and Rally's drive-through restaurant chains in past 2-3 years, you should immediately request your bank to block your card and notify it if you notice any suspicious transaction. Checkers, one of the largest drive-through restaurant chains in the United States, disclosed a massive long-running data breach yesterday that affected an

Introduction to Vue.js and the Quasar Framework

In recent years, we’ve seen a proliferation of JavaScript tools and frameworks, such as Angular and React. I remember when I bought a book about Grunt.js: it was already being dropped by developers, who had started using other tools like Gulp, “the streaming build system”. But anyone who jumped on that train was likely to switch again really fast, because webpack came along and replaced them all.

But among JavaScript frameworks, one has seen particularly rapid growth in recent years: Vue.js. It’s been so popular that its rate of growth has become explosive compared to others in this space.

Vue has become one of the primary contenders due its soft learning curve. It lends itself nicely to gradual implementation. It has a modular, component-based architecture. And it has wide usage and a developed ecosystem of tools. If you’re interested in getting started with Vue, you can check out our book Jump Start Vue.js to start getting on your way to using Vue in your projects.

Vue Tools, Terminology and Landscape

As with most technologies one ventures to master, getting to grips with Vue includes getting to know the terms and concepts, and getting comfortable with its ecosystem of tools and building blocks.

Vue Router is an indispensable part of all Vue single-page applications. It provides navigation control, nested routing, route-view mapping, and many other features.

Vuex is a “state management pattern + library” for Vue apps. It’s like a centralized data store helping us to manage state in our applications, across all components. Handling stage across multiple parts of front-end applications can quickly get out of hand, and thus the need for a comprehensive solution. We talk more about Vuex in our Vuex Beginners Guide.

Vue devtools can make life easier for developers. It helps you keep track of the components, state, and events in our applications. You can find more about this tool in Chapter 2 of our book dedicated to Vue tools.

Vue Cli provides a command-line toolset for building Vue applications — prototyping, fast scaffolding of JavaScript applications with included CSS pre-processors, ESLint, Babel, Typescript support, PWA support, and so on. Vue CLI — especially in its latest incarnation — is a game changer, and presents a little ecosystem of its own. The Vue CLI 3 plugin for building Electron applications is one very good example. We also devoted a whole book to it, the Beginner’s Guide to Vue CLI, so you can dive right in.

Vue Component System is another one of Vue’s strengths. It enables us to modularize our applications, to encapsulate pieces of markup, logic and styling and reuse them.

Vue Cli Plugin Component, by David Desmaisons, helps with development of components to be published on npm.

If you’re looking for a deep dive into these and other Vue.js tools, I recommend you take a look through Vue.js: Tools & Skills.

Awesome Vue is also an excellent resource. It’s an in-depth, categorized, up-to-date collection/repo of all the pieces of the Vue ecosystem and Vue.js resources.

Quasar, the Vue framework we’re covering here, also has Awesome Quasar, an excellent repo page with many useful resources.

Quasar

Vue is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. On its own, however, it doesn’t provide actual UI elements, or components, or consistent designs we can use. That’s why, on top of Vue, many UI frameworks have been built, to provide users with reusable, styled components. We can think of it like different takes on Twitter’s Bootstrap — only for Vue.

If you’re interested in finding out more, I recommend taking a look at “Five Vue UI Libraries for Your Next Project”, which is Chapter 3 of Vue.js: Tools & Skills. One serious contender in this space, which we didn’t cover, is Vuetify, a material design component framework with quite a big following. Another one is Quasar.

Quasar is a high performance, Material Design 2, full front-end stack for Vue.js.

It’s an MIT-licensed, simple-to-use but powerful UI kit that supplements Vue.js to provide a full-featured toolset for building responsive front-end apps without having to delve too deep into the scaffolding and configuration.

As we can see in the Quasar docs, it comes with a lot of UI components, and layout elements and helpers.

It gives us three ways to bootstrap our app:

• UMD / Standalone makes it possible to start small, by including scripts and styles we need from a CDN. This method doesn’t rely on VUE CLI or the building of assets.
• Quasar CLI claims to be “the pride of the Quasar framework”, and is the recommended way of building Quasar applications. It can be used to build:
  • SPAs (single-page apps/websites)
  • SSRs (server-side rendered apps/websites)
  • PWAs (progressive web apps)
  • mobile apps (through Cordova)
  • Electron apps
• Vue CLI 3 plugin

We’ll follow Quasar team’s recommendation and use Quasar CLI.

Bootstrapping a Quasar App with Quasar CLI

Before we install Quasar CLI, we need to make sure we have the right versions of node (>= 8 at the time of writing) and npm (>= 5). If not, we need to either install or update it. Then we can install Quasar CLI:

sudo npm install -g @quasar/cli

Now we can use it to bootstrap our projects. Quasar has a thorough documentation on Quasar CLI. We’ll skim through it and discuss most relevant parts.

The command we use is quasar + subcommand. Just quasar will list the commands for us, and quasar <command> --help will get us the help for the given subcommand.

We use quasar create to scaffold a quasar project.

We’re then presented with a list of choices about the project we want to bootstrap.

After the project is scaffolded, we can cd into the directory and start a development server with quasar dev. The project is built and the browser will open the provisional index page on localhost.

Note: for production, once our project is done, we’d be using quasar build to compile our resources.

The dev server provides us with Hot Reload, which preserves the state in the browser through reloads.

Hot Reload is much more than just refreshing your browser when the code changes. It skips the refresh and updates your code on the fly, while maintaining your app’s state (like your Vue’s model data).

As we write code and save our files/Vue components, along with a page reload in the browser, the terminal shell in which we started the dev server will output many errors in the code. This section in Vue.js: Tools & Skills gives a pretty good explanation of why.

Once we’ve bootstrapped our project, we get this directory structure (with the exclusion of node_modules):

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Latest Hacking News Podcast #294

Chinese APT Group Emissary Panda Targeting Middle East, Widespread Cryptojacking Campaign, Three Tech Support Scammers Charged By FBI Today’s Agenda

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The aftermath of a data breach: A personal story

Criminals used my account to launder credit card transactions into cash, at least where the company transacted with was willing to refund

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Flipboard Resets Passwords For 145 Million Users Following Data Breach

Another firm has fallen victim to a massive data breach. This time, it is the news aggregator app Flipboard that

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Hackers Infect 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers with Rootkit Malware

Cyber Security researchers at Guardicore Labs today published a detailed report on a widespread cryptojacking campaign attacking Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers worldwide. Dubbed Nansh0u, the malicious campaign is reportedly being carried out by an APT-style Chinese hacking group who has already infected nearly 50,000 servers and are installing a sophisticated kernel-mode rootkit on

Top 5 Last-Minute Memorial Day Deals at THN Store → Get 60% Extra OFF

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Hacking Your Smart Home: How to Prevent Intrusion

Today, humans aspire to equip their homes with as much smart technology as possible. There are internet-connected kettles, baby monitors

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How to Build a Chrome Extension with Vue

Browser extensions are small programs that can modify and enhance the functionality of a web browser. They can be used for a variety of tasks, such as blocking ads, managing passwords, organizing tabs, altering the look and behavior of web pages, and much more.

The good news is that browser extensions aren’t difficult to write. They can be created using the web technologies you’re already familiar with — HTML, CSS and JavaScript — just like a regular web page. However, unlike regular web pages, extensions have access to a number of browser-specific APIs, and this is where the fun begins.

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to build a simple extension for Chrome, which alters the behavior of the new tab page. For the JavaScript part of the extension, I’ll be using the Vue.js framework, as it will allow us to get up and running quickly and is a lot of fun to work with.

The code for this tutorial can be found on GitHub.

The Basics of a Chrome Extension

The core part of any Chrome extension is a manifest file and a background script. The manifest file is in a JSON format and provides important information about an extension, such as its version, resources, or the permissions it requires. A background script allows the extension to react to specific browser events, such as the creation of a new tab.

To demonstrate these concepts, let’s start by writing a “Hello, World!” Chrome extension.

Make a new folder called hello-world-chrome and two files: manifest.json and background.js:

mkdir hello-world-chrome
cd hello-world-chrome
touch manifest.json background.js

Open up manifest.json and add the following code:

{
  "name": "Hello World Extension",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "background": {
    "scripts": ["background.js"],
    "persistent": false
  }
}

The name, version and manifest_version are all required fields. The name and version fields can be whatever you want; the manifest version should be set to 2 (as of Chrome 18).

The background key allows us to register a background script, listed in an array after the scripts key. The persistent key should be set to false unless the extension uses chrome.webRequest API to block or modify network requests.

Now let’s add the following code to background.js to make the browser say hello when the extension is installed:

chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(() => {
  alert('Hello, World!');
});

Finally, let’s install the extension. Open Chrome and enter chrome://extensions/ in the address bar. You should see a page displaying the extensions you’ve installed.

As we want to install our extension from a file (and not the Chrome Web Store) we need to activate Developer mode using the toggle in the top right-hand corner of the page. This should add an extra menu bar with the option Load unpacked. Click this button and select the hello-world-chrome folder you created previously. Click Open and you should see the extension installed and a “Hello, World!” popup appear.

Congratulations! You just made a Chrome extension.

Overriding Chrome’s New Tab Page

The next step will to have our extension greet us when we open up a new tab. We can do this by making use of the Override Pages API.

Note: before you progress, please make sure to disable any other extensions which override Chrome’s new tab page. Only one extension at a time may alter this behavior.

We’ll start off by creating a page to display instead of the new tab page. Let’s call it tab.html. This should reside in the same folder as your manifest file and background script:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>My New Tab Page!</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>My New Tab Page!</h1>
  <p>You can put any content here you like</p>
</body>
</html>

Next we need to tell the extension about this page. We can do so by specifying a chrome_url_overrides key in our manifest file, like so:

"chrome_url_overrides": {
  "newtab": "tab.html"
}

Finally, you need to reload the extension for the changes to take effect. You can do this by clicking the reload icon for the Hello World extension on Chrome’s extensions page.

Now, when you open a new tab, you should be greeted by your custom message.

Adding Vue to the Extension

Now we have a very basic implementation of our extension up and running, the time has come to think about what the rest of the desired functionality will look like. When a user opens a new tab, I would like the extension to:

• Fetch a joke from the wonderful icanhazdadjoke.com.
• Display that joke in a nicely formatted manner to the user.
• Display a button for the user to favorite the joke. This will save the joke to chrome.storage.
• Display a button for the user to list favorited jokes.

You could, of course, do all of this with plain JavaScript, or a library like jQuery — and if that’s your thing, feel free!

For the purposes of this tutorial, however, I’m going to implement this functionality using Vue and the awesome vue-web-extension boilerplate.

Using Vue allows me to write better, more organized code faster. And as we’ll see, the boilerplate provides several scripts that take the pain out of some of the common tasks when building a Chrome extension (such as having to reload the extension whenever you make changes).

vue-web-extension-boilerplate

This section assumes that you have Node and npm installed on your computer. If this isn’t the case, you can either head to the project’s home page and grab the relevant binaries for your system, or you can use a version manager. I would recommend using a version manager.

We’ll also need Vue CLI installed and the @vue/cli-init package:

npm install -g @vue/cli
npm install -g @vue/cli-init

With that done, let’s grab a copy of the boilerplate:

vue init kocal/vue-web-extension new-tab-page

This will open a wizard which asks you a bunch of questions. To keep this tutorial focused, I answered as follows:

? Project name new-tab-page
? Project description A Vue.js web extension
? Author James Hibbard <jim@example.com>
? License MIT
? Use Mozilla's web-extension polyfill? No
? Provide an options page? No
? Install vue-router? No
? Install vuex? No
? Install axios? Yes
? Install ESLint? No
? Install Prettier? No
? Automatically install dependencies? npm

You can adapt your answers to suit your preferences, but the main thing to be certain of is that you choose to install axios. We’ll be using this to fetch the jokes.

Next, change into the project directory and install the dependencies:

cd new-tab-page
npm install

And then we can build our new extension using one of the scripts the boilerplate provides:

npm run watch:dev

This will build the extension into a dist folder in the project root for development and watch for changes.

To add the extension to Chrome, go through the same process as outlined above, making sure to select the dist folder as the extension directory. If all goes according to plan, you should see a “Hello world!” message when the extension initializes.

Project Setup

Let’s take a minute to look around our new project and see what the boilerplate has given us. The current folder structure should look like this:

.
├── dist
│   └── <the built extension>
├── node_modules
│   └── <one or two files and folders>
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── scripts
│   ├── build-zip.js
│   └── remove-evals.js
├── src
│   ├── background.js
│   ├── icons
│   │   ├── icon_128.png
│   │   ├── icon_48.png
│   │   └── icon.xcf
│   ├── manifest.json
│   └── popup
│       ├── App.vue
│       ├── popup.html
│       └── popup.js
└── webpack.config.js

As you can see, from the config file in the project root, the boilerplate is using webpack under the hood. This is awesome, as this gives us Hot Module Reloading for our background script.

The src folder contains all of the files we’ll be using for the extension. The manifest file and background.js should be familiar, but also notice a popup folder containing a Vue component. When the boilerplate builds the extension into the dist folder, it will pipe any .vue files through the vue-loader and output a JavaScript bundle which the browser can understand.

Also in the src folder is an icons folder. If you look in Chrome’s toolbar, you should see a new icon for our extension (also known as the browser action). This is being pulled from this folder. If you click it, you should see a popup open which displays “Hello world!” This is created by popup/App.vue.

Finally, note a scripts folder containing two scripts — one to remove eval usages to comply with the Content Security Policy of Chrome Web Store and one to package your extension into a .zip file, which is necessary when uploading it to the Chrome Web Store.

There are also various scripts declared in the package.json file. We’ll be using npm run watch:dev for developing the extension and later on npm run build-zip to generate a ZIP file to upload to the Chrome Web Store.

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Latest Hacking News Podcast #293

TA505 Attacks Italian Organization, Flipboard Discloses Breach, Austrailian Victorian Auditor General State’s Public Health System Has Weak Cybersecurity Today’s Agenda

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DC: 2 Hacking Challenge Walkthrough (Vulnhub)

Hello Community! We have just completed first vulnhub machine of DC series by DCAU in my last post. Lets move

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Flipboard Database Hacked — Users' Account Information Exposed

Flipboard, a popular social sharing and news aggregator service used by over 150 million people, has disclosed that its databases containing account information of certain users have been hacked. According to a public note published yesterday by the company, unknown hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to its systems for nearly 10 months—between June 2, 2018, and March 23, 2019, and

A dive into Turla PowerShell usage

ESET researchers analyze new TTPs attributed to the Turla group that leverage PowerShell to run malware in-memory only

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Build a Desktop Application with Electron and Angular

In this tutorial we’ll build a cross-platform desktop application with Electron and web technologies such as TypeScript and Angular. Electron.js is a popular platform for building cross-platform desktop apps for Windows, Linux and macOS with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It’s created and maintained by GitHub and it’s available under the MIT permissive license. It was […]

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Non-relational Databases and Supporting Mixed Workloads

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Suppose that you’re building an e-commerce platform and as part of the exercise, you need to come up with a new data architecture for inventory management. You need to support fast, transactional workloads to actually keep track of inventory in near real-time.

The business would also like to be able to answer questions such as "based on historical data, when should we restock on widgets and gizmos?" and “who are the people that are buying widgets and generally, where are they located?” Your data architecture needs to support mixed workloads.

Where would you start?

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Equifax stripped of ‘stable’ outlook over 2017 breach

Add that to the US$1.4 billion that the massive incident has cost the company so far

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Latest Hacking News Podcast #292

China-linked Cyber-Espionage Group  Adds 2 New Loaders, Singapore To Introduce SG-Verify a User Identification Tool, Joomla And WordPress Hpertext Access

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First American Financial Exposed 885 Million Sensitive Files Online

A recent report revealed a major data leakage incident compromising the security of sensitive records. The victim firm was “First

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Nearly 1 Million Computers Still Vulnerable to "Wormable" BlueKeep RDP Flaw

Nearly 1 million Windows systems are still unpatched and have been found vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)—two weeks after Microsoft releases the security patch. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an attacker to easily cause havoc around the world, potentially much worse than what

Sensor Calibration Attack Threatens Smartphone Users

Heads-up smartphones users! A new attack method has surfaced online that can meddle with your Android or iPhone. According to

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Latest Hacking News Podcast #291

Ransomeware Attack On Baltimore Update, UK Reports Russian Cyber Activity To 16 NATO Nations, Transport London To Begin Tracking Commuters,

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HCL Exposed Sensitive Data, Passwords In Plain Text Across Its Subdomains

Data leakages do not always occur through unsecured databases. Such incidents can also result due to other flaws. Most recently

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Mozilla Patched 16 Security Flaws With Thunderbird 60.7

Mozilla has rolled-out the latest release of their Thunderbird email client with numerous security fixes. This month’s update carries the

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WhatsApp Adverts To Begin in 2020, But What About End-To-End Encryption?

Despite a seemingly never-ending trail of blunders, glitches, and privacy breaches at Facebook, people still trust WhatsApp. However, as revealed

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Mozilla Released Firefox 67 While Fixing 24 Security Vulnerabilities

Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox browsers with major security updates. Allegedly, the new Firefox 67 brings fixes

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Java As The First Coding Language For Students

If you are a student who starts learning programming, Java, ask yourself several questions. What are the main benefits of learning Java as the first programming language? How hard is it to learn Java? When students are just starting out in IT, it’s challenging to know which coding language to focus on. Many experts believe that Java is a great first language for students to learn. In this article, you will learn the origins of Java, its advantages, what exactly you can build using Java.

The world of programming is exciting and challenging at the same time. Students who just start their IT course should be patient and ready to invest a lot of time and efforts. If you want to concentrate on programming but have additional college homework, ask to do my college homework at online writing services. It is the place where many students find help with writing academic papers or essays.

What is Java?

Before we start speaking about Java’s advantages, students must have a clear understanding of what Java is. First of all, it is a general-purpose programming language, which is very similar to Python and JavaScript. It is an object-oriented coding language. It has a lot of similarities to C++, C#. Java is not only a programming language; it is a specialized platform, which can run on a different machine that has installed the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

What are the benefits of using Java over similar programming languages?

Java is the top coding language, which has many significant advantages. It is a high-level computing platform, which was developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Java has been updated many times starting with Java SE 8.0 and finishing with the latest version Java 12, released in March 2019. It gained great popularity thanks to multiple configurations. Nowadays, the importance of web/mobile-based applications is growing. Java is considered the best foundation for creating networked applications. It is useful for scripting, web-based content, enterprise software, games, and mobile applications.

Applications designed on Java

Many enterprises use Java. For example, Oracle, around three billion devices, run various applications, which are created on the Java development platform. Let’s have a look at some applications which were designed using Java:

• Desktop GUI apps;
• Various embedded systems;
• Such web apps as eCommerce apps, front/back office electronic trading systems, settlement systems, confirmation systems, numerous projects for processing data, etc.;
• Web/application servers;
• Android applications;
• Enterprise, scientific apps;
• Middleware products.

What are the main advantages of using Java?

Java offers programmers high functionality and portability. Any program, which is written in Java platform, can run across all kind of systems: desktops, mobiles, embedded systems.

• Java is simple, free of charge, and object-oriented. It supports multi-threading.
• Java offers users multimedia/network support.
• Java is a stable and predictable coding language.
• Users have access to the Java Class Library, which is the best for enabling cross-platform development.
• Being highly popular at the enterprise, embedded and network level, Java has an active community thanks to being very popular at the enterprise.
• Java is a more independent platform comparing to C and C++. It is a bytecode language, which means that users can run the same program on any machine with installed JVM.
• Java offers such development tools as Eclipse SDK or NetBeans, which are known for their debugging capability.
• Java is compatible with Scala, Groovy, JRuby, and Clojure.
• Java is relatively compatible from one version to the next one.
• Students are highly recommended to use Java as their first programming languages. Let’s have a look at how Java differs from C++.

Simplicity in the learning process

If you compare Java and C++, Java is much simpler to learn and understand. Using Java, you will learn the essential concepts and syntax faster.

Forget about pointers

Java does not use pointers at all because they are confusing even for experienced programmers. That is why students should not use pointers without in-depth knowledge and experience.

Independent platform

Java has a core philosophy to write one program and run it on any device.  It is one of the most significant advantages of Java that its compiled code can run on different platforms without the need for recompilation.

Garbage Cleaner

Java offers its users professional automatic memory management to prevent any memory leakage in created applications.

JIT Compiler

By using JIT compiler, programmers can execute Java bytes codes much faster. The process of execution of C and C++ is slower compared to Java.

Multi-threaded applications

Users of Java can make multi-threaded applications. Concurrency is one of the critical features of the Java platform. By using multi-threading, you will use the same memory location.

Conclusion

Java development team never stops delivering high-quality software. The latest version of Java offers new features. Explore one of the most flexible coding languages with the new date and time library, API, useful graphics toolkit, and full integration with JavaScript.

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Windows 10 Is Now On 825 Million Active Devices: What It Means For Programmers

In November 2017, Windows announced that their Windows 10 operating system had been downloaded onto 600 million active devices. This was a big deal at the time, representing an extra 100 million users in less than six months. However, in May 2019, that record was smashed as it emerged that there are now 825 million devices running Windows 10. This makes it the world’s most popular operating system for desktops and laptops, finally surpassing Windows 7. This comes as 2018 finished with Microsoft as the most valuable company in the world.

The scale of Microsoft’s popularity is important for programmers. This company will lead the way in technological developments, whether it is in the form of machine learning or creating more powerful applications. Understanding how the masters achieve such a widely used operating system can help computer coders to appeal both to the tech obsessed and the average user.

When Will The Billion Mark Be Reached?

In the world of tech, a billion is a special number. Facebook hit a billion users way back in 2013, just eight years after its launch, and is set to hit the two billion mark imminently. YouTube managed the same in the same year, while Instagram didn’t gather a billion users until 2010. It is an elite club, but it is a milestone that Microsoft will want to celebrate as part of a marketing campaign aimed at convincing Windows 7 users to upgrade and Mac OS users to cross the aisle. At current rates of growth, more than a billion devices are likely to have installed Windows 10 before the end of 2019.

Developments Coming In AI

So what does this mean for the world of computer programmers? Becoming familiar with Windows 10 is a good way to understand the ultimate aims of the company. You will notice a greater focus on artificial intelligence than there has ever been on previous versions of Windows. This comes in the form of personal assistant, Cortana. Aiming to rival the likes of Siri from Apple and Alexa from Amazon, it is all a case of who has the most advanced AI. Computer programmers should focus on machine learning if they want to launch a successful tech company in the coming years.

The Windows Terminal App

Another way Windows has continued to stay relevant is with the the launch of its Terminal app. This is specifically aimed at programmers, with fast and efficient command-line tools. Having a look around this app will give you some insight into the epic coding that went into creating Windows 10. With multiple tabs and easy to read text, it is a way of making coding easier. Once again, this shows Microsoft’s ability to reach out to a wider audience and bring the average consumer on board.

PowerToys For Windows 10

PowerToys are about as fun as they sound, allowing computer programmers to maximize the potential of their Windows 10 powered device. If you are lucky enough to remember Windows 95, then you’ll already have experience with the software. However, the new launch of PowerToys for Windows 10 is exciting a lot of coding enthusiasts. Everything is geared towards efficiency and improved workflow, so that productivity is king, and programming is fun and easy.

Windows 10 is like a dream for tech lovers. It inspires ambitious coders, offering something for everyone from the average web browser to high level computer programmers. The news that 825 million active devices now use the operating system is no surprise, but it is a landmark achievement. The future of AI and coding is looking very exciting.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Webpack

Nowadays, we’re forced to use many accessory tools to facilitate, speed up and optimize our web development workflow. Often though, such tools add an extra layer of complexity into the stack. As a result, we need to utilize additional time and effort to learn, understand and use these tools correctly. The same is true for webpack.

When using webpack for the first time, it can be difficult to understand how it works and how it should be used. Although it has good documentation, it can be daunting for novices, and it has a steep learning curve. However, webpack is worth learning and can save considerable time and effort in the long run. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce all the core concepts to help you get started.

Note: in this tutorial I’ve used webpack 4.30.

What Is Webpack?

As its core, webpack is a static module bundler. In a particular project, webpack treats all files and assets as modules. Under the hood, it relies on a dependency graph. A dependency graph describes how modules relate to each other using the references (require and import statements) between files. In this way, webpack statically traverses all modules to build the graph, and uses it to generate a single bundle (or several bundles) — a JavaScript file containing the code from all modules combined in the correct order. “Statically” means that, when webpack builds its dependency graph, it doesn’t execute the source code but stitches modules and their dependencies together into a bundle. This can then be included in your HTML files.

Now, to expand the above cursory overview, let’s explore the main concepts webpack uses.

Webpack Main Concepts

Webpack has some main concepts which we need to understand clearly before digging in its practical implementation. Let’s examine them one by one:

• Entry. The entry point is the module, which webpack uses to start building its internal dependency graph. From there, it determines which other modules and libraries that entry point depends on (directly and indirectly) and includes them in the graph until no dependency is left. By default, the entry property is set to ./src/index.js, but we can specify a different module (or even multiple modules) in the webpack configuration file.

• Output. The output property instructs webpack where to emit the bundle(s) and what name to use for that file(s). The default value for this property is ./dist/main.js for the main bundle and ./dist for other generated files — such as images, for example. Of course, we can specify different values in the configuration depending on our needs.

• Loaders. By default, webpack only understands JavaScript and JSON files. To process other types of files and convert them into valid modules, webpack uses loaders. Loaders transform the source code of non-JavaScript modules, allowing us to preprocess those files before they’re added to the dependency graph. For example, a loader can transform files from a CoffeeScript language to JavaScript or inline images to data URLs. With loaders we can even import CSS files directly from our JavaScript modules.

• Plugins. Plugins are used for any other task that loaders can’t do. They provide us with a wide range of solutions about asset management, bundle minimization and optimization, and so on.

• Mode. Typically, when we develop our application we work with two types of source code — one for the development build and one for the production build. Webpack allows us to set which one we want to be produced by changing the mode parameter to development, production or none. This allows webpack to use built-in optimizations corresponding to each environment. The default value is production. The none mode means that there won’t be used any default optimization options. To learn more about the options webpack uses in development and production mode, visit the mode configuration page.

How Webpack Works

In this section we’ll examine how webpack works. Even a simple project contains HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. Also, it can contains assets such as fonts, images, and so on. So, a typical webpack workflow would include setting up an index.html file with the appropriate CSS and JS links, and the necessary assets. Also, if you have many CSS and JS modules which depend on each other, they need to be optimized and properly combined in one unit ready for production.

To do all this, webpack relies on configuration. Although webpack 4 comes with reasonable defaults, for any non-trivial project you’ll need to provide a special configuration file webpack.config.js, which describes how the files and assets should be transformed and what kind of output should be generated. This file can quickly become quite monolithic, which makes it hard to understand how webpack does its job unless you know the main concepts behind its working.

Based on the provided configuration, webpack starts from the entry points and resolves each module it encounters while constructing the dependency graph. If a module contains dependencies, the process is performed recursively against each dependency until the traversal has completed. Then webpack bundles all project’s modules into a small number of bundles — usually, just one — to be loaded by the browser.

Getting Started

Note: you can find the files for our project in the GitHub repo.

Now that we have solid theoretical foundation, let’s implement it in practice.

To start, we’ll create a new directory and switch to it. Then we’ll initialize a new project:

mkdir learn-webpack
cd learn-webpack
npm init -y

Next, we need to install webpack and webpack CLI locally:

npm install webpack webpack-cli --save-dev

Now, the content of the generated package.json should be similar to the following:

{
  "name": "learn_webpack",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "webpack": "^4.30.0",
    "webpack-cli": "^3.3.0"
  }
}

Besides bundling modules, webpack can be used as a simple task runner. We can create webpack tasks by including the name of our task followed by its instructions in the scripts section of the package,json file. Let’s try this now. Open package.json and change the scripts object to the following:

"scripts": {
  "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
  "dev": "webpack --mode development",
  "build": "webpack --mode production"
},

Within the scripts property, webpack allows us to reference locally installed npm packages by their names. We use that and the --mode flag to define dev and build tasks, which will run webpack in development (npm run dev) and production (npm run build) mode respectively.

Before we test the tasks we’ve just created, let’s create a src directory and put an index.js file in it so that it contains console.log("Hello webpack");. Now we can already to run the dev task to start webpack in development mode:

$ npm run dev

> learn_webpack@1.0.0 dev C:\Users\User\Webpack\learn_webpack
> webpack --mode development

Hash: 5bb3bdc1efd7b7f4b627
Version: webpack 4.30.0
Time: 226ms
Built at: 2019-04-16 17:48:32
  Asset     Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
main.js  3.8 KiB    main  [emitted]  main
Entrypoint main = main.js
[./src/index.js] 27 bytes {main} [built]

Great! It works as expected. But to verify that we get the correct output, we need to display the result in the browser. To do that, let’s create an index.html file in the dist directory:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Getting Started</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script src="main.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Now, if we open the file in the browser, we should see the Hello webpack message in the console.

So far, so good. But writing our index.html file manually can be problematic in some cases. For example, if we change the name of our entry point, the generated bundle will be renamed, but our index.html file will still reference the old name. So, we’ll need to update our HTML file manually every time we rename an entry point or add new one. Fortunately, we can easily fix that with the html-webpack-plugin. Let’s install it now:

npm install html-webpack-plugin --save-dev

At this point, to activate the plugin, we need to create a webpack.config.js file in the root directory with the following content:

const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require("html-webpack-plugin");

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: "Webpack Output",
    }),
  ],
};

As you can see, to activate a webpack plugin, we need to include it and then add it to the plugins array. If needed, we also pass options to the plugin.

Let’s run our build now to see what will happen:

$ npm run build

> learn_webpack@1.0.0 build C:\Users\User\Webpack\learn_webpack
> webpack --mode production

Hash: e56a796f5ccfebcc8270
Version: webpack 4.30.0
Time: 1088ms
Built at: 2019-04-16 20:44:47
    Asset       Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
index.html  183 bytes          [emitted]
  main.js  956 bytes       0  [emitted]  main
Entrypoint main = main.js
[0] ./src/index.js 27 bytes {0} [built]
Child html-webpack-plugin for "index.html":
    1 asset
    Entrypoint undefined = index.html
    [2] (webpack)/buildin/global.js 472 bytes {0} [built]
    [3] (webpack)/buildin/module.js 497 bytes {0} [built]
        + 2 hidden modules

Let’s open the index.html. As we can see, the plugin automatically creates an updated index.html file for us which uses the title option from the configuration:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Webpack Output</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="main.js"></script></body>
</html>

Let’s now expand our project and specify custom names for the entry and output properties. In webpack.config.js we add the following before the plugins property:

entry: './src/app.js',
output: {
  filename: '[name].bundle.js',
  path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist')
},

Now, we’ll create an src/component.js file:

export default (text = "Hello webpack") => {
  const element = document.createElement("p");

  element.innerHTML = text;

  return element;
};

Next, we rename index.js to app.js to reflect our changes, and swap its content with the following:

import component from "./component";

document.body.appendChild(component());

Now, let’s run webpack in production mode:

$ npm run build

> learn_webpack@1.0.0 build C:\Users\User\Webpack\learn_webpack
> webpack --mode production

Hash: 9f78936f8a2a21061f0b
Version: webpack 4.30.0
Time: 1689ms
Built at: 2019-04-17 23:43:40
        Asset       Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
    index.html  190 bytes          [emitted]
main.bundle.js   1.04 KiB       0  [emitted]  main
Entrypoint main = main.bundle.js
[0] ./src/app.js + 1 modules 227 bytes {0} [built]
    | ./src/app.js 79 bytes [built]
    | ./src/component.js 148 bytes [built]
Child html-webpack-plugin for "index.html":
    1 asset
    Entrypoint undefined = index.html
    [2] (webpack)/buildin/global.js 472 bytes {0} [built]
    [3] (webpack)/buildin/module.js 497 bytes {0} [built]
        + 2 hidden modules

Let’s examine and clarify the information from the webpack output. Beginning from the top, we see the hash of the build, webpack version, and the time it took to execute the build. Next, we see the files generated in the dist directory (index.html and main.bundle.js). Below them, we see the entry module (app.js) and its dependency (component.js). The output after Child html-webpack-plugin for "index.html": is related to the internal work of the html-webpack-plugin and we can safely ignore it.

So now, in the dist folder, we have the newly generated bundle file main.bundle.js. If we open index.html in the browser, we should see Hello webpack displayed on the page. Also, if we check the source of index.html, we’ll see that the value of the src property in the script tag is updated to main.bundle.js.

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You're going to be asked to do it.

At some point, if it hasn't happened already, your coworkers or your boss will ask you to do something foolish. Something you know will make things worse for you, your coworkers, maybe even the business itself.

If you're like most developers, you do it anyway.

That's what most will do, right? It's better to keep your head down, avoid making waves and simply do what you're told. Job security isn't a thing anymore, but that's one of the best things you can do to keep your job, for a while at least.

This Common Mistake Creates a Career Handicap

This is the problem.

Most employees want to keep their jobs and their clients. They don't have the leverage or control they want over their own careers. They need their job. In fact, most people are terrified of losing their jobs.

This has a cascading effect.

Research shows the fear of losing your job creates job dissatisfaction and a lack of commitment at work. This, in turn, affects job performance, negatively increasing the likelihood that you will lose your job. It's a vicious cycle that seems to repeat itself over and over.

But there's something worse than the fear of a job loss.

It's the misplaced confidence or expectation of job security, the kind of confidence that crushes you when you're actually let go. Both of these issues are a problem, and both of these issues are continually ignored.

Why is it a problem?

Because 78 percent of employees live paycheque-to-paycheque. This includes workers making $100,000+ per year. This is the real reason why most employees have no leverage, no ability to say no. This is the reason most developers won't fight with their coworkers.

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What do I mean by "fight?"

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