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How One Developer Accidentally Stopped the World’s Most Dangerous Hack

In 2021, the vulnerability in the Java logging library Apache Log4j 2 called “Log4Shell” was touted as the most critical vulnerability of the last decade. It made developers all around the world work on millions of apps to fix that critical vulnerability with a non-vulnerable version. Imagine there’s a vulnerability of that scale, but it’s 1000x that […]

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A Software Engineer “Hacks” An Airline Website To Find His Lost Luggage

What would you do when your luggage gets misplaced and you get no help from the airline or its customer service? I am sure this happens a lot, just that we don’t get to hear it frequently. Well, one incident happened to a 28-year-old software developer, Nandan Kumar, and a network engineer, Raj Shekhar, the

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