Researchers have discovered that a critical image processing library has a severe vulnerability which has left a vast amount of websites open to attack. You may not have heard of ImageMagick, but the ...

A tool used by millions of websites to process images has several critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to compromise Web servers. To make things worse, there’s no official patch yet and ...

I've spent a lot of time in my column talking about text processing and analysis, with the basic assumption that if you're using the command line, you're focused on text. That's not always true, and ...

Let's start with some homework. Go to Google (or Bing) and search for "privacy is dead, get over it". I first heard this from Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, but it's attributed to a number ...

Attackers have wasted no time targeting a critical vulnerability that could allow them to take complete control over websites running a widely used image-processing application, security researchers ...

I have a number of PDF documents containing scalable vector art and text, that need to be saved to bitmap (BMP and/or TGA format). I'm working on a bash script to convert them all from PDF to bitmaps ...

There are a few binaries that wind up running in a bunch of places, silently do their jobs, and being easily forgotten about. ImageMagick is used on many servers for image conversion and resizing, and ...