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11 Best Practices to Secure your Nodejs API

If you are building an API, you are most likely evaluating the pros and cons of available technologies. Sooner or later, you will surely come across NodeJS. NodeJS helps to create stable, scalable, and backward-compatible APIs. Besides the functionalities, you can’t overlook the security risk that comes with them. Misconfigured, insecure APIs leave your companies with high-profile cyber-attacks. Like any APIs, those developed with NodeJS come with security threats.

Harness Netskope Steering APIs for Scalable SD-WAN Deployments

In large-scale SD-WAN deployments, both enterprises and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) place a high priority on ensuring that SD-WAN CPEs seamlessly integrate with the nearest Netskope NewEdge Network Point of Presence (PoP). Automating this integration process is crucial as it not only saves considerable time but also boosts business agility.

Generative AI and Cyber Security

There has been a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. It is certainly a polarizing subject. While it raises hopes about the future of technology and what humanity is capable of, it also raises questions around human control and technological determination. There are those who worry that Artificial Intelligence is going to ‘take people’s jobs’, or even take over the world, and that the world will end up like a dystopian ‘Terminator’ style film.

DDoS report Q1 2024, certificate changes, QR phishing, and more

In this week's episode, we discuss different topics from blogs that we published in the previous couple of weeks, right after our Developer Week 2024. Host João Tomé is joined by our Field CTO, Trey Guinn, based in San Francisco. We discuss our most recent DDoS threat report for Q1 2024, highlighting the continued increase in DDoS attacks and emerging trends. Additionally, we address Cloudflare's efforts to ensure our customers aren't affected by Let's Encrypt's certificate chain change, emphasizing the importance of certificates.

How to Defend Against Modern Phishing Attacks

Phishing isn’t what it used to be. Older, popular scams — like grammatically incorrect love letters and mysterious princes who just need a little money — have given way to sophisticated and dangerous social engineering attacks. In fact, phishing has become so prevalent and effective that it is one of the three primary ways hackers compromise credentials.

Unzipping the XZ Backdoor and Its Lessons for Open Source

By now, you have probably heard about the recently discovered backdoor into versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the tarballs of the xz utilities, a popular compression/decompression library for xz files, which provides unauthorized remote access under certain conditions. This vulnerability was reported under CVE-2024-3094. Andres Freund, of Microsoft, who discovered the vulnerability, summarized it well.

How to Share a Keeper Record on Android

Keeper’s Android mobile app makes it easy to securely share records with friends and family. To share a record with another Keeper user, select the record from your vault and tap Share, then Share with User. Enter the user's email address or select it from the dropdown, then use the toggle buttons to choose what permissions the user will receive such as: “Can Edit”, “Can Share” and "Make Owner". If you do not enable any permissions, the user will have “view only” access. Upon tapping Save, the user will receive an email notifying them that you have shared a record.

Azure Key Vault vs HashiCorp Vault: Comparison

With so many organizations moving to cloud-based infrastructures, the need for security management has become more essential than ever. Azure Key Vault and HashiCorp Vault are two leading cloud solutions for safeguarding sensitive information. While both of them are used for managing secrets, their approaches, features, and integrations can differ significantly, which we are going to discuss in this blog.