The path traversal bug allows attackers to include arbitrary filesystem content in generated PDFs when file paths are not ...

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a text-based approach to describing how content contained within an HTML file is structured. This markup tells a web browser how to display text, images and other ...

Sometimes, you discover the coolest Mac OS X tricks by accident. That happened recently to Hints reader philostein. And philostein’s accident is our gain. First, copy a file path to your Mac’s ...

There have always been multiple reasons to avoid Java for writing scripts. It was not surprising that Java was not the most appropriate language for scripting because it was never intended to be a ...

When I learned to program, programs had line numbers. You’d type GOTO 10 or GOSUB 5000 and that would control the flow of your program. When I first saw a programming language that didn’t have line ...

The article Secure Coding: Preventing unauthorized access through path traversal (CWE-22) has already described the dangers posed by the critical vulnerability CWE-22 (path traversal) in software ...