I got a mail forwarded from my current manager. A security scan in relation to our PCI certification had flagged a functionality as insecure, on a medium level. The scanning tool was able to post URI encoded strings, which could be evaluated as working Javascript. This would enable a malicious user to manipulate with the [...]

When trying to publish my last entry via MacJournal I got the following error Application failed during request deserialization: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 85, column 137, byte 2837 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 Damn Perl error! Damn MacJournal! I would really love to know where the problem is. Perl (or XML::Parser) is attempting to [...]

My co-worker did some manual XML transformation a long time ago in Perl. We use this particular piece of code a lot and the number of time it is run everyday is very high. The code has one comment “the wrong way to parse xml – but faster!” The XML we always receive look like [...]