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Jan 26

Log4j vulnerability

What is it? Log4j library is considered to be the de-facto standard of logging framework when it comes to logging the activities in your server. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or perform denial of service attacks on the targeted servers. Therefore hackers can easily steal data or take control…

Log 4 J Vulnerability

3 min read

May 26, 2021

Pre-requests in rescue

Setting pre-request to save multiple clicks for API testing in Postman — Most application will have an oauth2 authentication mechanism which typically has an endpoint which provides an accessToken which needs to be passed by subsequent API calls. In our simple example let us consider 2 endpoints Authentication which provides the accessToken — /authenticate An API that will serve our request in…

Postman Testing

2 min read

Mar 29, 2021

Network Time Synchronization

I was working on some Spring Boot application and one day I noticed a warning “Thread starvation or clock leap detected (housekeeper delta=8m11s787ms)” 2021–03–28 23:16:28.096 WARN 22268 — — [l-1 housekeeper] com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool : HikariPool-1 — Thread starvation or clock leap detected (housekeeper delta=8m11s787ms). To know this in detail I had…

Ntp

4 min read