Two differing reports have been released regarding the security of Google Chrome browser extensions. Google claims that less than 1% of all installations include malware, while a study by researchers at Stanford University and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security suggests that over 280 million users have installed extensions with malware over a three-year … Read more
This week, Google stated that its research on Chrome extensions has detected the most malicious code but also acknowledged the risks associated with these add-ons. A study by Stanford University and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany found that the risk from browser extensions is higher than Google indicates. Their research paper … Read more
Alan Oberto Jiménez and Tobias Drees discuss the importance of the circuit breaker pattern in modern software systems that rely on remote calls to other services. This pattern helps detect and isolate faults, preventing cascading failures and improving system stability. They demonstrate how AWS Lambda Extensions can be used with Amazon DynamoDB to implement this … Read more