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'Warlock' ransomware used in attacks on critical infrastructure in Portuguese, Spanish-speaking countries

The group is exploiting a variety of vulnerabilities impacting Microsoft SharePoint, according to a new report from Symantec Threat Hunter Team.

We haven't written up this one. The Record has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Reimplementing a Trie Reminded Me How Autocomplete Actually Works

I spent an embarrassing amount of time last week reimplementing something I'd "known" since a data structures class a decade ago: the trie.

  • Trie stores strings by character along shared paths from root
  • Autocomplete features utilize trie's prefix lookup mechanism
  • Trade-off of naive trie implementation is significant memory waste

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