Our applications rely more and more on external packages to enable quick deployment and ease of development. While these packages help reduce the code we have to write ourselves, it still may present risk to our application. If you are building Nodejs applications, you are probably using npm to manage your packages. For those that don't know, npm is the node package manager. It is a direct source to quickly include functionality within your application. For example, say you want to hash your … [Read more...] about Checking npm packages using npm-audit
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Blue Cross Mails USB sticks – Take-Aways
You have information you want to share with your customers, but how do you do it securely? How often have you heard not to click links sent via email? You shouldn't plug in random USB drives to your computer. From a marketing perspective, how do you get large amounts of information, such as videos and specific information, out to your customers? In a report by Fierce Healthcare … [Read more...] about Blue Cross Mails USB sticks – Take-Aways
The 1 thing you need to know about the Daily Motion hack
It was just released that Daily Motion suffered a hack attack resulting in a large number of usernames and email addresses being released. Rather than focusing on the number of records received (the wow factor), I want to highlight what most places are just glancing over: Password Storage. According to the report, only a small portion of the accounts had a password associated with it. That is in the millions, and you might be thinking this is bad. It is actually the highlight of the story. … [Read more...] about The 1 thing you need to know about the Daily Motion hack