Uber Improves Productivity with Remote Development Environment Devpod

Engineers at Uber created their own remote development environment to improve developer experience and productivity by fixing a number of issues brought about by their adoption of a code monorepo.

eBay Using Fault Injection at the Application Level With Code Instrumentation

eBay engineers have been using fault injections techniques to improve the reliability of the notification platform and explore its weaknesses. While fault injection is a common industry practice, eBay attempted a novel approach leveraging instrumentation to bring fault injection within the application level.

PyTorch-Nightly Struck by Supply Chain Attack Exfiltrating Data and Files

Developers who installed the nightly builds of PyTorch between December 25 and December 30 2022 are recommended to uninstall it and purge their pip cache to get rid of a malicious package, say PyTorch maintainers. The new attack highlights a recent trend.

Unskilled Cybercriminals May Be Leveraging ChatGPT to Create Malware

In a recent report, Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point warned that cybercriminals are already using ChatGPT to develop malicious programs on the Dark Web. According to Check Point, ChatGPT makes it possible for even unskilled threat actors to create functioning malware.

Critical Control Web Panel Vulnerability Still Under Exploit Months After Patch Available

A 9.8 severity vulnerability in Control Web Panel, previously known as CentOS Web Panel, allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary shell commands through a very simple mechanism. Although readily patched, security organizations are reporting it is under active exploit.