The Trojan in Your Pocket The most important device in your financial life is probably not your laptop or a branch ATM. It’s the Android phone in your hand. That’s exactly why a new generation of banking trojans, including a recently uncovered strain dubbed “Sturnus,” is so alarming: it doesn’t just steal passwords; it watches…

The Promise That Got Oversimplified For a brief moment, the sales pitch sounded irresistible: deploy AI agents, automate the boring stuff, and watch cybersecurity “simplify itself.” Patch cycles would accelerate, alerts would prioritize themselves, and penetration testing would become a push‑button exercise. Reality has gone in the opposite direction. AI agents have not removed complexity…

When the Cloud Blinked, ShadowV2 Moved As AWS engineers scrambled to stabilize a regional outage, another team—unpaid, anonymous, and entirely malicious—treated the disruption as a once-in-a-year red-team opportunity. The ShadowV2 botnet, a new malware strain targeting cloud workloads, quietly used the AWS downtime as a live-fire testbed, probing how far it could move, how fast…

A New Era for Crypto in the Gulf When the United Arab Emirates quietly published Federal Decree Law No. 6 of 2025, the global crypto industry took loud notice. With a single sweeping move, the UAE pulled cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and even parts of decentralized finance (DeFi) into the orbit of its traditional banking…

The Silent Bug Factory Hiding in Plain Sight On a grey Tuesday afternoon in London, a back-end developer named Aisha watched her integration tests fail for the third time in an hour. The logs showed everything “working”: the API responded, the message queue dutifully relayed its payload, and the database wrote the records. Yet the…

When “Next Page” Becomes a Performance Bug In the quiet hours of a late-night sprint, pagination rarely feels like the glamorous part of a Spring Boot project. It’s the sort of feature you wire up with a sigh, using Pageable, ship to production, and forget about. Until the product takes off, the tables swell into…

Introduction: A New Era in Software Development In the ever-evolving realm of software development, the marriage of artificial intelligence with programming frameworks is unfolding a new chapter of innovation. The integration of Spring AI to map Large Language Model (LLM) responses into Java objects signifies a monumental stride towards automating the software development process. This…

The Art and Science of Date and Time Mapping in Hibernate and JPA In the realm of software development, precision and efficiency are paramount, particularly when dealing with date and time data. Hibernate and Java Persistence API (JPA) provide powerful tools for mapping these data types, yet the intricacies involved can be a veritable minefield…

An Introduction to Enum Mappings in Java In the realm of Java development, enums serve as a robust feature for defining a set of named constants. However, when it comes to persisting these enums into a database, developers often face the challenge of maintaining data integrity and flexibility. Enter the @EnumeratedValue annotation—a pivotal tool that…

Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of software development, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) concepts within programming languages is not just an advantage—it is a necessity. For Java developers, the creation of an AI glossary tailored specifically to their needs underscores this imperative. This development is a strategic move to bolster the proficiency of…