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Security researchers at Wiz Research have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Redis in-memory database that could allow an attacker to gain remote code execution (RCE) capabilities and take ...

The critical vulnerability allows attacks to escape the in-memory data store’s Lua sandbox and subsequently execute arbitrary code on the underlying server. The popular Redis in-memory data store ...

Redis has disclosed details of a maximum-severity security flaw in its in-memory database software that could result in remote code execution under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as ...

Researchers have uncovered a 13-year-old critical remote-code-execution flaw in Redis that let attackers escape the product’s Lua sandbox and execute native code on the host, creating a straight line ...

The Redis security team has released patches for a maximum severity vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain remote code execution on thousands of vulnerable instances. Redis (short for Remote ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

“I’m always telling my students to keep practicing,” says Dr. Marwan Shaban, professor and program manager of computer programming and analysis at Seminole State College of Florida. “You can’t learn ...