It's hard to get hacked worse than this
The Stack Overflow Podcast · Stack Overflow
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Show Notes
There is a nice breakdown of the Solarigate attack here, but the most important thing to know is that just seeing the words BusinessLayer.dll is enough to make our eyes glaze over and our defenses go down.
One interesting second order effect of this intrusion is that it will be difficult to know when all malicious code and access has really been removed. It brought to mind the classic Turing Award Lecture, Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson.
If you're trying to entertain kids over the holidays, Ben will be messing around with Roblox, which lets you create your own mini-games and has several hooks to deeper programming capabilities.
Our Lifeboat badge winner this week is Chinito, who answered the question of how you can: Set style using pure JavaScript
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