Introduction A secure architecture of a web application consists of 3 components: a frontend, an application and a data backend. The frontend server’s task from a security perspective is to terminate SSL and to be the first line of defense. That means it inspects and validates requests from the untrusted...
Managing your nodes has seen a wonderful change with the rise of DevOps and its newly found tools. Whether it’s written in Python or Ruby or runs on a custom language, we have come far from the olden days of shell-scripting your environment. Under the hood, however, in most cases,...
NPM hosts about 144,000 npm modules on their registry. Over one million modules are downloaded per month. Assume you use one module that includes a major flaw in their implementation? Will you detect it? Just recently, João Jerónimo published a special npm modules called rimrafall. He published it at npm...