Sophisticated Rust-based malware infecting Redis data stores to self-replicate and inject payloads into servers. Researchers at Cado Security decompiled the activities to get identifiable indicators.
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The Internet Security Research Group has begun a project to rewrite httpd components in Rust to address memory safety issues that currently affect httpd. A new TLS module will be made first.
Raspberry Pi has announced the launch of a new microcontroller called Pico. It's powered by the RP2040 chip that Raspberry designed and built themselves. A free Pico is available with HackSpace #39.
The TIOBE Index has put Python as the second most popular programming language, replacing Java. It's the first time in nearly 20 years that the TIOBE Index is not reporting C and Java in the top two.
Microsoft has explained its vision for .NET languages, detailing how it plans to evolve C#, F#, and Visual Basic in the future so developers can make more informed business decisions.
Joe Duffy, the leader of an operating system incubation project at Microsoft, has written the first details of a new set of “systems programming” extensions to C# that's been in the works for 4 years.
