PayPal has fixed a serious vulnerability in its back-end management system that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server and potentially install a backdoor. The ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In this Java serialization example, we will use both the ObjectOutputStream and the ...

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...

A recent blog post by FoxGlove Security that described remotely executable exploits against several major middleware products including WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss has focused attention on what ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...

The .NET ecosystem is affected by a similar flaw that has wreaked havoc among Java apps and developers in 2016. The flaw is in how .NET coding libraries handle deserialization operations, leading to ...