93: Preventing Service Abuse with Michael Lubas

We talk with Michael Lubas about steps we can take to protect our Phoenix applications from common automated bot attacks. We cover API abuse to send email spam, carding attacks, and credential stuffing. We learn how Michael started paraxial.io which aims to specifically serve the Elixir community and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/93 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/93)
Elixir Community News
- https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2022-results (https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2022-results) – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board election voting results
- https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2022 (https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2022) – Previous election notice and explanations
- https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/changelog.html (https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/changelog.html) – ExDoc v0.28.3 was released
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1508528099973120004 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1508528099973120004) – Call to help move ExDoc away from webpack to esbuild
- https://twitter.com/dominicletz/status/1506675402059792388 (https://twitter.com/dominicletz/status/1506675402059792388) – iOS app store now has an Elixir application deployed in it!
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/69 (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/69) – Previous interview with Dominic Letz about doing Elixir on the desktop and mobile.
- https://www.erlang.org/news/155 (https://www.erlang.org/news/155) – Erlang 25.0 rc-2 was released and requesting feedback
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1507443537851392007 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1507443537851392007) – Jose Valim's experience compiling Elixir from scratch on Apple's new MacStudio M1 Max
- Conference reminders
- https://www.empex.co/mtn (https://www.empex.co/mtn) – Empex MTN in Salt Lake City on May 6
- https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto-2022/ (https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto-2022/) – CodeBEAM in Stockholm on May 19-20
- https://www.elixirconf.eu/ (https://www.elixirconf.eu/) – ElixirConf EU in London on June 9-10
- https://elixirconf.com/events (https://elixirconf.com/events) – ElixirConf US in Colorado on August 30-Sep2
- https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells (https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells) – Elixir Code Smells - public project
- https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ (https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/) – Safe Ecto Migrations
- https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung/status/1508413319178297352 (https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung/status/1508413319178297352) – Today I Learned about doctests and importing
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://www.paraxial.io/blog/throttle-requests (https://www.paraxial.io/blog/throttle-requests)
- https://github.com/michalmuskala/plug_attack (https://github.com/michalmuskala/plug_attack)
- https://owasp.org/Top10/ (https://owasp.org/Top10/)
- https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/28614 (https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/28614) – What is a carding attack?
- https://owasp.org/www-project-automated-threats-to-web-applications/ (https://owasp.org/www-project-automated-threats-to-web-applications/)
- http://paraxial.io/ (http://paraxial.io/)
- https://frame.io/ (https://frame.io/)
- https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2021/Adobe-Completes-Acquisition-of-Frame.io/default.aspx (https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2021/Adobe-Completes-Acquisition-of-Frame.io/default.aspx)
- https://www.metasploit.com/ (https://www.metasploit.com/)
- https://www.crunchbase.com/ (https://www.crunchbase.com/)
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Credential_stuffing (https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Credential_stuffing)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webapplicationfirewall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_firewall)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/paraxialio (https://twitter.com/paraxialio) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/paraxialio/ (https://github.com/paraxialio/) – on Github
- https://paraxial.io/ (https://paraxial.io/) – Website
- [email protected]
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)

We talk with Michael Lubas about steps we can take to protect our Phoenix applications from common automated bot attacks. We cover API abuse to send email spam, carding attacks, and credential stuffing. We learn how Michael started paraxial.io which aims to specifically serve the Elixir community and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/93

Elixir Community News

https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2022-results – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board election voting results
https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2022 – Previous election notice and explanations
https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/changelog.html – ExDoc v0.28.3 was released
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1508528099973120004 – Call to help move ExDoc away from webpack to esbuild
https://twitter.com/dominicletz/status/1506675402059792388 – iOS app store now has an Elixir application deployed in it!
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/69 – Previous interview with Dominic Letz about doing Elixir on the desktop and mobile.
https://www.erlang.org/news/155 – Erlang 25.0 rc-2 was released and requesting feedback
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1507443537851392007 – Jose Valim's experience compiling Elixir from scratch on Apple's new MacStudio M1 Max
Conference reminders
https://www.empex.co/mtn – Empex MTN in Salt Lake City on May 6
https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto-2022/ – CodeBEAM in Stockholm on May 19-20
https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU in London on June 9-10
https://elixirconf.com/events – ElixirConf US in Colorado on August 30-Sep2
https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells – Elixir Code Smells - public project
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ – Safe Ecto Migrations
https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung/status/1508413319178297352 – Today I Learned about doctests and importing

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://www.paraxial.io/blog/throttle-requests
https://github.com/michalmuskala/plug_attack
https://owasp.org/Top10/
https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/28614 – What is a carding attack?
https://owasp.org/www-project-automated-threats-to-web-applications/
http://paraxial.io/
https://frame.io/
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2021/Adobe-Completes-Acquisition-of-Frame.io/default.aspx
https://www.metasploit.com/
https://www.crunchbase.com/
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Credential_stuffing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_firewall

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/paraxialio – on Twitter
https://github.com/paraxialio/ – on Github
https://paraxial.io/ – Website
[email protected]

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
Email the show - [email protected]
Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward

Sponsored By: