Day: July 15, 2020

So kind of SAP NetWeaver to hand out admin accounts to anyone who can reach it. You’ll want to patch this

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Dubbed RECON, aka Remotely Exploitable Code On NetWeaver, by its discoverers, security shop Onapsis, the bug in SAP’s NetWeaver AS JAVA (LM Configuration Wizard) allows a remote unathenticated hacker to take over a vulnerable NetWeaver-based system by creating admin accounts without any authorization. The bug, CVE-2020-6287, is a lack of proper authentication in NetWeaver. This Read more about So kind of SAP NetWeaver to hand out admin accounts to anyone who can reach it. You’ll want to patch this[…]

Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on Tuesday. The data privacy lawsuit is the second filed in as many months against Google by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner Read more about Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out[…]

Whiteboard coding interviews are ‘anti-women psychological stress examinations’

Posted on by Robin Edgar

People applying for software engineering positions at companies are often asked to solve problems on a whiteboard, under the watchful eye of an interviewer, as a way to assess technical problem solving skills. But recent research suggests that whiteboard technical tests – so daunting to job seekers that there are books on how to deal Read more about Whiteboard coding interviews are ‘anti-women psychological stress examinations’[…]