Week in review: 0-days exploited in Palo Alto Networks firewalls, two unknown Linux backdoors identified

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 2,000 Palo Alto Networks devices compromised in latest attacks Attackers have compromised around 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls by leveraging the two … Continue reading Week in review: 0-days exploited in Palo Alto Networks firewalls, two unknown Linux backdoors identified

Bank Employees Resign After Executive Demands Return to Offices Without Space for Everyone

Slashdot reader Bruce66423 shared this report from the Guardian:

Staff have resigned at Starling Bank after its new chief executive demanded thousands of workers attend its offices more frequently, despite lacking enough space to host them.

In his … Continue reading Bank Employees Resign After Executive Demands Return to Offices Without Space for Everyone

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‘Potentially Toxic’ Chemical Byproduct May Be Present in 1/3 of US Drinking Water

NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct “may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found.”

“Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are worried that it could have toxi… Continue reading ‘Potentially Toxic’ Chemical Byproduct May Be Present in 1/3 of US Drinking Water

RFID From First Principles and Saving a Cat

[Dale Cook] has cats, and as he readily admits, cats are jerks. We’d use stronger language than that, but either way it became a significant impediment to making progress with …read more Continue reading RFID From First Principles and Saving a Cat

Verify the Rust’s Standard Library’s 7,500 Unsafe Functions – and Win ‘Financial Rewards’

The Rust community has “recognized the unsafety of Rust (if used incorrectly),” according to a blog post by Amazon Web Services.
So now AWS and the Rust Foundation are “crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library,” according to an arti… Continue reading Verify the Rust’s Standard Library’s 7,500 Unsafe Functions – and Win ‘Financial Rewards’