A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the popular binary-parser npm library that, if successfully exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary JavaScript. The vulnerability, tracked ...

Do you want to allow users to search/match strings? What about allowing users to search/match a string with Regular Expressions? But isn't that a headache??

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Abstract: This paper solves the problem of the excessive memory footprint and the slow speed of parsing when using the DOM method to parse the XML data. As we know the current XML parsing technology ...

Nearly three years ago in MacStories Weekly, I wrote about an advanced technique I was using to assemble the MacStories Shortcuts Archive. As I wrote at the time, the Shortcuts Archive is itself ...

Security responders are scrambling this weekend to assess the damage from crypto-mining malware embedded in an npm package (JavaScript library) that counts close to 8 million downloads per week.

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Abstract: State of the art XML parsing approaches read an XML file byte by byte, and use complex finite state machines to process each byte. In this paper, we propose a new parser, HPXA, which reads ...