Best of SecurityFebruary 2023

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    Avatar of ghblogGitHub Blog·3y

    GitHub Copilot now has a better AI model and new capabilities

    GitHub Copilot has upgraded its AI model, resulting in better code suggestions and reduced serving time. It also introduced a new security vulnerability filter to identify insecure coding patterns. Developers can now experience faster coding with more accurate suggestions.

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    Avatar of infosecwriteupsInfoSec Write-ups·3y

    API Security for Developers

    This post provides a high-level checklist for developers to securely develop APIs, covering all OWASP Top 10 API security issues. It emphasizes the importance of secure APIs and the risks they pose. The checklist includes recommendations for broken object-level authorization, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, lack of resources and rate limiting, broken function level authorization, mass assignment, security misconfiguration, injection, improper assets management, and insufficient logging and monitoring.

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    Avatar of dzDZone·3y

    Top Three Docker Alternatives To Consider

    Podman is a daemonless, open-source, Linux-native container engine that is considered one of the best alternatives for Docker. Podman, Kubernetes, Openshift, LXD, Docker Swarm, BuidKit, and Mesos are some of the popular Docker alternatives available in the market today.

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    Avatar of systemweaknessSystem Weakness·3y

    Securing Local Storage using crypto-js in ReactJS

    Learn about securing local storage in ReactJS by encrypting and decrypting data using the crypto-js library. Explore the risks of storing sensitive data in local storage and discover secure alternatives.

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    Avatar of braveBrave·3y

    HTTPS by Default

    Brave introduces the new feature 'HTTPS by Default' to improve web security and privacy by increasing the use of HTTPS. This feature automatically upgrades sites to HTTPS, falling back to HTTP only if necessary.

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    Avatar of sdtimesSD Times·3y

    Time to hide your API

    The 4th annual State of the APIs Report collected insights from more than 850 global developers, engineers, and leaders from over 100 countries. The increased API usage is especially prominent in telecommunications, which is projected to rise to 72%, up from 59% last year. By 2025, fewer than half of enterprise APIs will be managed.

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    Avatar of btrprogBetter Programming·3y

    I Used GPT-3 to Find 213 Security Vulnerabilities in a Single Codebase

    GPT-3 used to find 213 security vulnerabilities in a codebase, outperforming a commercial tool that found only 99 vulnerabilities.

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    Avatar of systemweaknessSystem Weakness·3y

    The Pitfalls of JWT Authentication: Why Stateful Sessions are the Safer Option

    This post discusses the pitfalls of using JWT authentication and explains why stateful sessions are a safer option for web applications.

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    Avatar of infosecwriteupsInfoSec Write-ups·3y

    Attacking and securing Docker containers

    The Docker daemon is actually the core of the docker environment, it runs containers, pull images and manage all the networks and volume. You can use the Docker daemon through a client, or if you want to make things hard you can connect directly to the Docker socket.

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    Avatar of medium_jsMedium·3y

    Little bug, Big impact. 25k bounty

    An ethical hacker discovers sensitive data stored in the front-end of a web application, highlighting the importance of avoiding secrets in JavaScript code and using secure storage. JavaScript source mapping and the SourceMapper tool are discussed.

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    Avatar of itnextITNEXT·3y

    4 container design patterns for Kubernetes

    Learn about 4 container design patterns for Kubernetes, including securing traffic with TLS and collecting logs from apps that log to a file.

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    Avatar of dzDZone·3y

    Security in Game Development

    Game developers must prioritize security to protect player data, prevent cheating and malicious code, and mitigate DDoS attacks. By implementing necessary measures, they can create a safe and enjoyable gaming experience for players and build a strong reputation in the industry.

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    Avatar of asayerasayer·3y

    Web3: the new, decentralized Web

    Web3 is the next generation of the internet, based on decentralization and offering advantages such as improved security, privacy, and transparency. It enables decentralized applications, distributed storage, decentralized exchanges, decentralized identity, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Web3 faces challenges in scalability, security, and usability, but has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with the internet.

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    Avatar of containersolutionContainer Solutions·3y

    WTF is Cilium?

    Cilium aims to be how we all connect, observe and secure workloads using eBPF as the core technology to provide solutions in an efficient, Cloud Native way. EBPF gives applications superpowers through custom programs that attach to events in the kernel, and you can deploy to help you efficiently manage container clusters.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·3y

    robinmoisson/staticrypt: Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed.

    StatiCrypt is a tool that uses AES-256 and WebCrypto to encrypt HTML files with a password, allowing for password protection without the need for a back-end server. It provides options to encrypt files online or through the command-line interface. The encrypted files can be decrypted in the browser.

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    Avatar of phplibPHP LibHunt·3y

    Awesome PHP Weekly - Issue 351, Feb 09, 2023

    Issue 351 of Awesome PHP Weekly features popular news and articles, such as the release of PHPUnit v10, upgrading to PHPUnit 10, and the modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.

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    Avatar of omgubomg! ubuntu!·3y

    Linux Kernel 6.2 Released, This is What’s New

    Linux Kernel 6.2 has been released with important hardware, performance, and security improvements. It includes support for Intel Arc graphics, Intel's On-Demand driver, Apple M1 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips, an update to the NTFS3 kernel driver, and various other new features and improvements.