​​A few days ago I opened the calculator on my new phone and got a message: “Calculator would like to access your contacts”.

What if, just like apps on our phones, npm packages had to declare what permissions they required?

#npm #security #persmissons #package

​​For a number of years I’ve been interested in the security provided by passwords, and the methods being developed to attack password-protected accounts. So I thought I’d see how successfully everyday developers, without specialist knowledge, could hack millions of passwords.

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​​In this article I am going to talk about two different ways of authentication: stateful and stateless authentication. If you have learnt about networking, you may already heard about stateful and stateless, but in this article I am going to give these two adjectives other meanings.

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#Auth #Security

​​This tutorial explains the basics of OAuth 2.0 and how to deploy an OAuth2 authorization service in Node.js to Google Cloud Functions.

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🔘 #OAuth2 #Security #JWT #Serverless

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​​Ever since I started learning how to code, I have been fascinated by the level of trust we put in a simple command like pip install packagename

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#security #hacking

​​JavaScript is used everywhere today. It runs in your browser as well as in your backend. Besides, JavaScript is a highly dependent ecosystem on third-party libraries. Therefore, securing JavaScript requires following best practices to reduce the attack surface.
But, how do we keep JavaScript applications secure? Let’s find out.

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#JavaScript #Security