Scripting / Programming / Automation / Technology

12/11/2020

A project Manager is a Person that believes that 9 women can deliver a baby in 1 month.

22/09/2020

Joomla tags removed from articles.

Using: JCE Editor (applicable also for TinyMCE).

I spent a lot of time and I also asked for support from people in order to solve this problem. Nobody was able to help me.

I was able to find a few suggestions which I did without success.

Finally, the problem was that the Editor is removing empty tags, eg:

And that was my case.

Previously I have allowed the scripts, checked the user profiles for the required permissions and etc.

The actual solution in order to stop the tags to be removed is:

Go to JCE Editor -> Editor Profiles -> Choose the profile -> Advance

in the Box of Extended Elements add:
script[*]

The same is applicable for Font Awesome:


in this case, add:
i[*]

More below make sure the Allow Javascript is set to yes and that the user you use have No Filtering.

For TinyMCE, the name is: Extended Valid Elements and should work in the same way.

Enjoy!

25/06/2020

Are you trying to Access the JCE Editor Control Panel in Joomla after updating to 3.9 and you have the Error Below?

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/home/......./public_html/administrator/includes/toolbar.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php73/pear') in /home/........./public_html/administrator/components/com_jce/controller.php on line ###

Just replace:

require_once JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/includes/toolbar.php';

with:

jimport('joomla.html.toolbar');

and it works again :)

01/03/2020

if an attacker or a piece of mobile malware can get into the kernel of iOS or Android, then it can do anything it wants, including presenting fake authenticator-app screens.

"One of my clients had an iPhone 4 and was using Microsoft Authenticator," Turner said, indicating another authenticator app. "All an attacker would need to do is to get an iPhone 4 exploit. My client was traveling in a high-risk country, his phone was cloned and then after he left the country, all sorts of interesting things happened to his accounts."

Some Android phones are safer than iPhones

And don't think iOS devices are safer than Android ones -- they're not. There are just as many known exploits for either one, and Weidman extracted the encryption keys from an older iPhone in a matter of seconds onstage.

The iPhone's Secure Enclave offers "some additional security, but the authenticator apps aren't using those elements," said Weidman. "iOS is still good, but Android's [security-enhanced] SELinux is the bane of my existence as someone who's building exploits."

"We charge three times as much for an Android pentest than we charge for an iOS one," Turner said, referring to an exercise in which hackers are paid by a company to try to pe*****te the company's security. "Fully patched Android is more difficult to go after."

In short, "we need to move away from usernames and passwords," Turner said.

Biometric authentication such as fingerprint readers and facial recognition, Weidman said that it's "better than nothing when used in addition to passwords."

Turner wasn't so sure.
"I am fundamentally opposed to using biometrics because it's non-revocable," he said, citing a famous case from Malaysia in which a man's index finger was cut off by a gang to steal the man's fingerprint-protected Mercedes. "Fingerprint readers are biometric toys."

The only form of two-factor authentication without security problems right now, Turner said, is a hardware security key such as a Yubikey or Google Titan key.

"I've got two Yubikeys on me right now," Turner said. "Hardware separation is your friend."

Apps like Google Authenticator are only as safe as the devices they run on

10/12/2019

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-Martin Golding

Source: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/7-common-programming-principles-that-every-developer-must-follow/

28/11/2019

Yes, another one security Breach.
Data Enrichment Exposure From PDL Customer

https://www.troyhunt.com/data-enrichment-people-data-labs-and-another-622m-email-addresses/

The exposed data included an index indicating it was sourced from data enrichment company People Data Labs (PDL) and contained 622 million unique email addresses. The server was not owned by PDL and it's believed a customer failed to properly secure the database.

The exposed information included email addresses, phone numbers, social media profiles, and job history data.

Until this month, I'd never heard of People Data Labs (PDL). I'd certainly heard of the sector they operate in - "Data Enrichment" - but I'd never heard of the company itself. I've become more familiar with this sector over recent years due to the frequency with which it's been suffering data breach...

23/09/2019

Good one :)

08/05/2019

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01/05/2019

Interesting article about AI and text processing

A cloud computing expert at Microsoft used the company's artificial intellgence tools on William Shakespeare's plays - and saw some interesting results.

18/04/2019

Do you know what this means in JavaScript?

Or Maybe is better to write it in this way?

const plantNeedsWater = day => day === 'Wednesday' ? true : false;

Which is still correct

15/04/2019

Using Confluence?

March 2019 Confluence Server Advisory - WebDAV and Widget Connector vulnerabilities

WebDAV vulnerability - CVE-2019-3395 - Critical
Widget Connector vulnerability - CVE-2019-3396 - Critical

Customers who have upgraded to Confluence Server or Data Center versions 6.6.12, 6.12.3, 6.13.3, 6.14.2 or higher are not affected.

Customers using Confluence Cloud are not affected.

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07/04/2019

The Cats and Mouse Challenge HackerRank Solution