It’s fascinating how sometimes rather small companies disrupt a (niche-)market that is controlled by one or two big players. That is what happened in the bike computer/navigation market. It was almost exclusively controlled by Garmin just a few years back. When I started cycling I bought a bike computer from Garmin. I knew Garmin’s GPS devices from cars and they offered a devices made for cyclists who ride longer, non-competitive rides - the ‘Touring Edge’.
More...Often I’m working in quiet places like libraries or shared office spaces. This led to the desire to have my laptop muted everytime I open it. And it should be muted not with 2 seconds delay but instant, no matter the load.
Years ago I created a very small piece of software to mute macOS everytime it is going into sleep mode or gets shutdown. It works pretty well for me and since people kept asking about it, I published it to Github.
More...You have probably heard of FreeBSD (or any other BSD). Have you used it? If yes: stop reading right here. If no: read on, maybe you want to try it.
I know plenty of developers who feel very comfortable with Linux (especially Ubuntu is common these days). They have their developer server and probably production server running on Linux. But why Linux and not FreeBSD? There are several reasons, maybe one applies to you.
More...Disclaimer: I reported this vulnerability on September 12th, 2013 and got a response by September 16th. Nothing happened since. I asked for an update on February 4th and haven’t received a response, yet. Update February 12th: The TYPO3 security team released a security bulletin and a fixed version for the issue. Thanks!
What is object injection and why is it a problem? An object injection vulnerability allows the attacker to instantiate arbitrary objects. Just think of something like this:
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