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Storing passwords securely should be imperative for any credible engineer. Plain text passwords are extremely insecure - you shouldn't even bother considering storing them a plain format. It's enough that someone gains view privileges on a database for an entire user base to be compromised. Passwords must be stored in...
Dimitrije Stamenic
As developers, we're encouraged from the start of the journey to write clean code. Equally as important, but less talked about is writing and using secure code. In Python projects, we typically install modules and third-party packages to avoid developing solutions that already exist. However, this common practice is why...
Sathiya Sarathi Gunasekaran
The internet is becoming more and more service oriented with more businesses and companies coming up with offerings that can be provided or accessed online. This requires users to create many accounts on many different platforms for the services that they get online. Such services range from online shopping to...
Robley Gori
SSH, or Secure Shell, is a very common way to securely access remote machines, typically via the command line. It aims at ensuring that your connection, and therefore all data passed, is free from eavesdropping. Because of this, there are quite a few checks built-in to the popular SSH clients,...
Scott Robinson
This article applies to sites created with the Spring Boot framework. We will be discussing the following four methods to add additional layers of security to Spring Boot apps: Preventing SQL Injection using Parameterized Queries URL Parameter Input Validation Form Field Input Validation Output Encoding to Prevent Reflected XSS Attacks...
Jacob Stopak
When connecting to a server, you'll usually need some kind of authentication to log in, whether it be a username/password or key file. Usernames and passwords are pretty straight-forward, but things can get a bit more confusing when it comes to using private keys. Not only do you need...
By default, Node.js is fairly secure by itself. Although, there are definitely things you have to watch out for. If your Node web-app starts to get more and more popular, for example, you'll need to be thinking more and more about security to ensure that you're keeping your users'...
Writing about Passport.js the other day got me thinking about how authentication actually works, and more importantly how many ways it can go wrong. The naive solution is to just store a user's username/email and password directly in the database, and then check the submitted password against the...
User authentication is one of those things that you probably don't think too much about, but just about every website or app out there requires it. If you had to implement authentication yourself, could you? Well don't worry, you probably won't have to. Since this functionality is so common, just...
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