12 posts tagged with "security"

The average open source (non-node) software repository uses 203 packages as dependencies. That's a lot of places where an attacker might…

We all use software written by other people. Whether it is libraries that we statically link, like in the old days of C, packages we import…

Email is a pain, but is absolutely required for many modern applications to function well. Whether it is for sending invoices, password…

While the typical user of your application probably won't be interested in your audit trails, that doesn't mean that you can get by without…

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) creates a list of security vulnerabilities for web applications every few years. While the…

Code For Cash If an application is around for long enough, eventually the users will want to modify the behavior of the application for…

Applications have a lifecycle. Whether the app runs unmodified for a few days before being replaced by a newer version, or runs for twenty…

When building a application that simply serves a bunch of users, you can make a lot of assumptions. You might assume that they can share a…

Web security vulnerabilities are expensive and massively destructive. They can result in identity theft, illegal content ending up on your…

The future is often a scary, uncertain place for people. Everyone likes to project how things will turn out for them in the future. Tech…

This week Will and BJ review their predictions for 2016 and making new ones for 2017. First they briefly look at the predictions each made…

The question was asked on Quora: What are the five essential skills every web developer should have? There were 91 different answers to this…