Discover how credit card validation codes work and protect against fraud. Learn about their placement, security role, and examples to secure online transactions.

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

At a basic level, parameter expansion means changing Bash syntax into a value—expanding it. For example: echo "$foo" This ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A researcher has solved one of the longstanding riddles of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering a hidden script within the ...

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web ...

Microsoft has announced plans to improve the security of Entra ID authentication by blocking unauthorized script injection attacks starting a year from now. The update to its Content Security Policy ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. Well, that’s ...

Abstract: This SoK paper presents findings from a survey conducted on the current state of tools and techniques used in the static configuration analysis of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Our findings ...

A security weakness has been disclosed in the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editor Cursor that could trigger code execution when a maliciously crafted repository is opened using the ...