Researchers Warn of Sitecore Exploit Chain Linking Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution

Aug 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Web Security Three new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Sitecore Experience Platform that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution. The flaws, per watchTowr Labs, are listed below – CVE-2025-53693 – HTML cache poisoning through unsafe reflections CVE-2025-53691 – Remote code execution (RCE) through […]

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Breaking & Securing the Web: An HTTP Credential Sniffer and Analyzer Project – DEV Community

Introduction As part of my continuous exploration of application security, I worked on a practical project to comprehend the practical dangers of sending data without encryption. Even though theoretical knowledge is important, nothing helps to cement comprehension like extracting real-time credentials from network data. With the “HTTP Credential Sniffer & Secure Transmission Analyzer,” I delved […]

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Sequence Modeling with CTC

Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes training a speech recognizer harder than it might at first seem. Without this alignment, the simple approaches aren’t available to us. We could devise a […]

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The Threat Of Extreme Statutory Damages For Copyright Almost Certainly Made Anthropic Settle With Authors

from the can’t-risk-it dept In what may be the least surprising news in the world of copyright and the internet, Anthropic just agreed to settle the copyright lawsuit that everyone’s been watching, but not for the reasons most people think. This isn’t about AI training being found to infringe copyright—in fact, Anthropic won on that […]

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Recent books from the MIT community

Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal GoodBy Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $27.99 So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious DiseaseBy Thomas Levenson, professor of science writingPENGUIN RANDOM […]

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