GopherLua is a Lua5.1(+ goto statement in Lua5.2) VM and compiler written in Go. GopherLua has a same goal with Lua: Be a scripting language with extensible semantics. It provides Go APIs that allow ...

It targeted high-precision calculation software to tamper with results and packed a self-propagation mechanism. SentinelOne has discovered a Lua-based sabotage malware created years before the ...

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Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

Have you ever found yourself in a client’s hardened, containerised environment where you needed to scan their internal infrastructure? If so, you’ve probably encountered an issue where the instance ...

Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell. Computer scientists affiliated with the University of Piraeus and Athena Research ...

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years ...

Given that Microsoft/GitHub/Azure and Amazon/AWS offer AI coding assistants, namely GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q Developer, which work as add-ins to Visual Studio Code and other IDEs, it was inevitable ...

In recent years, we’ve reported on multiple efforts to reverse-engineer Nintendo 64 games into fully decompiled, human-readable C code that can then become the basis for full-fledged PC ports. While ...

A previously unknown threat actor dubbed 'Sandman' targets telecommunication service providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and South Asia, using a modular info-stealing malware named 'LuaDream ...