The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...

A recent blog post by FoxGlove Security that described remotely executable exploits against several major middleware products including WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss has focused attention on what ...

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The type of 1:7 interfaces are widely used in consumer devices such as televisions and Blu-ray players for video processing when passing data between components. One video channel typically comprises ...

Learn about serialization in Java with our comprehensive tutorial. We provide examples to help you understand how serialization works and how to use it. Serialization is a fundamental concept in Java ...

Message serialization goes by a variety of names like “marshalling” or “packing” but all fall under the umbrella of declaring the structure by which messages are assembled. Message serialization is ...

Serialization is the process of saving an object’s state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

WordPress CMS installations are vulnerable to a PHP bug related to data deserialization (also known as unserialization), a security researcher has revealed at the start of the month. The bug has been ...

PayPal has fixed a serious vulnerability in its back-end management system that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server and potentially install a backdoor. The ...