ERC20 and BEP20 are well known token standards in the cryptocurrency world, but they don’t tie the developer’s hand as much as we might think. I created a token that works a bit differently than you would expect.

Around February 2022, an innocent-looking Linux kernel vulnerability corrupted some log files. Digging in and analyzing the root causes led to discovering the dirty pipe vulnerability. This allows attackers with local access to escalate to root. Oh no, was it an overflow again? Not this time; read on to find out!

Every once in a while, there is that stupid one-liner implementation bug that can be found in all critical systems, and that fancy exploitation technique that nobody has thought of in the past century, which results in a security vulnerability that not only disrupts the whole internet, but all hell breaks loose for cybersecurity professionals, IT admins and developers alike. The Log4Shell vulnerability is not one of those. Even though the problem is more severe than that.

Injection defenses rely on making your code aware of the data structure it manipulates. If it is done well, your data structure internals are exposed just enough, so it is possible to hide them completely. Taking this approach will lead you to think of interfaces as security contracts.

Did you also think that Unix-based operating systems are the superior species in terms of security? Well, maybe you should reconsider that. In early 2021, a severe bug was found in them, which affected many Unix systems. When the report about it arrived, the bug was already patched, but let’s look at it in this article.