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June 26, 2018 by James Jardine Leave a Comment

Checking npm packages using npm-audit

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 3rd party component, applicaiton security, components, javascript, nodejs, npm, secure, secure development, security, security components, security testing

January 26, 2017 by James Jardine Leave a Comment

Gmail will block JavaScript file attachments

According to a recent announcement, Gmail will start blocking .js file attachments starting February 13, 2017. Blocking specific attachment types isn't something that is new to Gmail. They already block attaching file attachments that are .exe, .msc, and .bat types. The recent move to add javascript files is most likely related to the recent malware/ransomware campaigns that have started using JavaScript files instead of Microsoft Office files. There was an article posted back in April … [Read more...] about Gmail will block JavaScript file attachments

Filed Under: News Tagged With: application security, email, hacking, javascript, mail security, ransomware, secure development, security

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