Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have yanked 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries that contained a backdoor mechanism and were caught inserting code that launched hidden ...

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A diligent developer's security practices have uncovered a dangerous backdoor in a popular Ruby library for checking the password strength of user-chosen passwords. The malicious code would check if ...

In today's world of programming, a developer typically uses a myriad of languages to get his job done. While a .NET programmer may rely on C# or VB.NET as his primary language, he may also use XSLT, ...