What is YAML?

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YAML is a human-readable data serialization standard that can be used in conjunction with all programming languages and is often used to write configuration files. Overview The recursive YAML acroynym stands for “YAML Ain’t Markup Language,” denoting it as flexible and data-oriented. In fact, it can be used with nearly any application that needs to store or transmit data. Its flexibility is partially due to the fact that YAML is made up of bits and pieces of other languages. A few examples of these similarities include: Scalars, lists, and associative…

Web Browsers still allow drive-by-downloads in 2020

It’s 2020, and numerous browsers still allow drive-by-downloads from what is meant to be secure contexts such as sandboxed iframes. For those unfamiliar with the term, a drive-by-download is when a user visits a site, and a file download is initiated without the user’s interaction. This technique can be used to distribute unwanted software and malicious programs in the hopes that users will accidentally or mistakenly execute the downloads and get infected. New research from ad security firm Confiant shows that secure contexts such as sandboxed iframes can be abused to allow drive-by-downloads…