The Hacker News·5yNew Chrome 0-Day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser ASAP!
Chrome users can update to the latest version (91.0.4472.101) by heading to Settings > Help > About Google Chrome to mitigate the risk associated with the flaw. The flaw stems from a type confusion issue in its V8 open-source and JavaScript engine. Google has addressed a total of seven zero-days in Chrome since the start of the year.
The Hacker News·5yAntivirus Pioneer John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Jail
John McAfee, 75, died by suicide in a jail cell in Barcelona, Spain. He was due to be extradited to the U.S. to face federal criminal tax evasion charges. McAfee worked for NASA, Xerox, and Lockheed Martin before launching the world's first commercial antivirus software.
JavaScript in Plain English·5ySimple CSS Hack to Reduce Page Load Time
Simple hack to reduce the impact of CSS on page load time. Use non-Blocking CSS to improve the performance of the application. The property “media=’print’” should be applied to only those CSS elements which do not have any impact during the initial loading of the page.
Honeypot·5yHow To Become a Hacker In a Year
Hackers are creative and love to solve problems. Hacking is more than executing a script and calling it a day. Our trade requires a lot of passion even for the things we don’t care about. There is so much potential within the field of hacking. You can keep on learning forever.