Enhancing GDB’s Python API, Mac Ransomware, and Haskell bar chart

Tue 18 Apr 2023

Improving messages and types in GDB’s Python API

As a winter associate at Trail of Bits, my goal was to make two improvements to the GNU Project Debugger (GDB): make it run faster and improve its Python API to support and improve tools that rely on it, like Pwndbg. The main goal was to run symbol parsing in parallel and better use all available CPU cores. I ultimately implemented three changes that enhanced GDB’s Python API.

Source: A Winter’s Tale: Improving messages and types in GDB’s Python API, an article by Matheus Branco Borella.

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Apple's Macs Have Long Escaped Ransomware. That May Be Changing

Security researchers are examining newly discovered Mac ransomware samples from the notorious gang LockBit, marking the first known example of a prominent ransomware group toying with macOS versions of its malware.

Source: Apple's Macs Have Long Escaped Ransomware. That May Be Changing, an article by Lily Hay Newman.

How to create a bar chart from a CSV file with Haskell

Today I wanted to create a bar chart for a new blog post on blog.airsequel.com. It was supposed to show the number of days between each SQLite release. I decided to use Haskell, but I couldn't find any good code examples out there. So, I went ahead and wrote the code from scratch. 😮‍💨 I'm sharing it here in hopes of sparing the next person the time and effort. 😅

Source: How to create a bar chart from a CSV file with Haskell, an article by Adrian Sieber.

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