Businesses pay 100'000 $ to fake crackers!
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/businesses-pay-100000-to-ddos-extortionists-who-never-ddos-anyone/
Twitter seems to have a lot of resources for developers, have a look at it and integrate Twitter into your app/program/framework:
https://dev.twitter.com
Are devs really bad at testing?
Most are:
http://simpleprogrammer.com/2016/04/20/developers-poor-testers-can-done/
SS7 technology exploited, after some years still not fixed:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/18/phone-number-hacker-read-texts-listen-calls-track-you
Look at this funny code review:
https://macton.smugmug.com/Other/2008-07-15-by-Eye-Fi/n-xmKDH/i-S8QGZ7F/A
This man broke everything!!!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
Pure gold 😍
Go check out this list of Assembly snippets, they are just awesome!
http://www.madwizard.org/programming/snippets
Petya, the intelligent ramsonware:
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/threat-analysis/2016/04/petya-ransomware/
Mad wizard's WinSock tutorial it's the best on the subject:
http://www.madwizard.org/programming/tutorials/netcpp/
And finally it comes Telegram's updated source code:
https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram
Bad news for Mega:
https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-warns-mega-users-to-backup-their-files-160421/
A great tutorial about .htaccess files, really complete:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
GitLab, a growing repo platform, lets you have unlimited private repos for free or to host your repo on your own server.
Try it on your next project!
about.gitlab.com
Microsoft launched CaptionBot, an AI for analyzing images.
You can test it at www.captionbot.ai or by using a Telegram bot made by a subscriber, @caption_ai_bot .
CodeSchool started an AngularJS + Bootstrap course, check it out:
https://www.codeschool.com/learn-angular-js-with-bootstrap
Here's a CodeProject article about encryption, really well written.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/828477/Cipher-EX-V
How I explained REST to my wife.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130116005443/http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife
Loading image formats like PNG can be difficult, but most importantly can be un efficient.
With this little tutorial you can learn the basics of libpng:
http://www.piko3d.net/tutorials/libpng-tutorial-loading-png-files-from-streams/#Setup
If you don't already know that channel, go have a look at @geekschannel 🤓!
They talk about Telegram and its awesome features and they also provide content in different languages.
And don't forget to have a look at their Telegram Talks, starting 11st April!
List of bad programming practices for C/C++:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31011/Bad-coding-Practices