Microsoft Just Patched a Major Security Vulnerability for This Popular Windows App

AI-related changes to Notepad allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on your computer. The vulnerability was related to ...

Notepad++ boosts update security with ‘double-lock’ mechanism

Notepad++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...
IEEE

Automated Assessment of Java Code Using CodeT5+, Early Fusion, and CatBoost Regressor

Abstract: With the increasing number of students pursuing education, the workload on educators with respect to time consumed on evaluation, has significantly risen. Manually assessing student-written ...

Windows 11 Notepad flaw let files execute silently via Markdown links

Microsoft has fixed a "remote code execution" vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local or ...
TweakTown

Extra features for Windows 11 Notepad go beyond worries about bloat, as new security flaw shows

There's a remote code execution vulnerability in Notepad which is leveraged via the recently introduced formatting abilities to make tables in the app.
PCMag

Bloat Risk? Microsoft's Notepad Upgrade Also Introduced a Vulnerability

The flaw exploits Notepad’s recently added support for Markdown, a formatting language used on websites and in files, to run malicious code on a Windows PC.
GitHub

Eclipse Paho Java Client

The Paho Java Client is an MQTT client library written in Java for developing applications that run on the JVM or other Java compatible platforms such as Android The Paho Java Client provides two APIs ...
Ars Technica

Notepad++ users take note: It’s time to check if you’re hacked

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...
The Hacker News

Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users

The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved [an] ...
IEEE

CODE-SMASH: Source-Code Vulnerability Detection Using Siamese and Multi-Level Neural Architecture

Abstract: The rapid evolution of software development, propelled by competitive demands and the continuous integration of new features, frequently leads to inadvertent security oversights. Traditional ...
Indiatimes

Congress complaint to EC: BJP using bulk Form 7 to delete genuine voters in SIR states

NEW DELHI: In an urgent missive to Election Commission, Congress on Thursday accused the ruling BJP of using the EC’s Form 7 to target genuine voters for wrongful deletion in the Claim and Objection ...
Yahoo

Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear of phone checks

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police guard the street leading to Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 4. - Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters ...