Pen Test Partners

Eurostar AI vulnerability: when a chatbot goes off the rails

TL;DR Introduction I first encountered the chatbot as a normal Eurostar customer while planning a trip. When it opened, it ...

Worrying WhatsApp attack can steal messages and even accounts - here's how to stay safe from "poisoned" attack

The malicious fork, named ‘lotusbail’ has all the same functionality as the legitimate project, but it also steals WhatsApp authentication tokens and session keys. Furthermore, it intercepts and ...
InfoWorld

AI power tools: 6 ways to supercharge your terminal

Aider is a “pair-programming” tool that can use various providers as the AI back end, including a locally running instance of ...

Ruby 4.0: A lot of restructuring under the hood, few new features

The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...