Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.
INSPIRE

String correlation functions of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chain

We calculate certain string correlation functions, originally introduced as order parameters in integer spin chains, for the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain at zero temperature and in the thermodynamic ...
IEEE

Hand Sanitizers in the Wild: A Large-scale Study of Custom JavaScript Sanitizer Functions

Abstract: Despite the considerable amounts of resources invested into securing the Web, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is still widespread. This is especially true for Client-Side XSS as, unlike ...
WeLiveSecurity

Introducing Nimfilt: A reverse-engineering tool for Nim-compiled binaries

Available as both an IDA plugin and a Python script, Nimfilt helps to reverse engineer binaries compiled with the Nim programming language compiler by demangling package and function names, and ...
IEEE

Hybrid Cost Function Distributed MPC for Vehicle Platoons With Stability and String Stability Properties

Abstract: Distributed MPC schemes for control of vehicle platoons typically employ a p-norms based cost function to achieve stability and string stability. Quadratic cost functions yield smoother ...
InfoWorld

JavaScript callbacks, promises, and async/await explained

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...
GitHub

string-methods

Basics of JavaScript 1. History of JavaScript 2. Getting Started with JavaScript 3. Data Types 4. Different Types of console.log() 5. Variables (var, let, const) and Its Scope 6. Operators 7. Type ...