JSJ 357: Event-Stream & Package Vulnerabilities with Richard Feldman and Hillel Wayne

JavaScript Jabber

English - March 26, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 80.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 241 ratings
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Panel

Aaron Frost
AJ O’Neal
Chris Ferdinandi
Joe Eames
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood

Joined by special guests: Hillel Wayne and Richard Feldman

Episode Summary

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Hillel Wayne kicks off the podcast by giving a short background about his work, explains the concepts of formal methods and the popular npm package - event-stream, in brief. The panelists then dive into the recent event-stream attack and discuss it at length, focusing on different package managers and their vulnerabilities, as well as the security issues associated with them. They debate on whether paying open source developers for their work, thereby leading to an increase in contribution, would eventually help in improving security or not. They finally talk about what can be done to fix certain dependencies and susceptibilities to prevent further attacks and if there are any solutions that can make things both convenient and secure for users.

Links

STAMP model in accident investigation
Hillel’s Twitter
Hillel’s website
Richard’s Twitter
Stamping on Event-Stream

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JSConf US

Chris Ferdinandi:

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Charles Max Wood: