19: Node.js Application Security

Chetan Karande (@karande_c), talks about Node.js App security and ways developers can prevent attacks. He goes into detail about working with Express.js in particular, NodeGoat, & his work with OWASP. Chetan is a team lead and senior software engineer at Omgeo and frequently speaks at conferences about JavaScript, Front End Technologies, Java, & Node.js.

Resources:

• Chetan’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/karande_c

• Chetan’s G+ - https://plus.google.com/103318808082524392883

• FluentConf Interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLd5xLXSz1A&index=29&list=PL055Epbe6d5bab7rZ3i83OtMmD-d9uq2K

• FluentConf Slides - https://speakerdeck.com/ckarande/top-overlooked-security-threats-to-node-dot-js-web-applications

• jssummit - http://environmentsforhumans.com/2014/javascript-summit/

• omgeo- https://www.omgeo.com/

• node.js vulnerabilities http://blog.nodejs.org/vulnerability/

• Express vulnerabilities - http://expressjs.com/advanced/security-updates.html

• node security project - https://nodesecurity.io/advisories

• node-goat - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Node_js_Goat_Project

• retire.js - http://open.bekk.no/retire-js-what-you-require-you-must-also-retire

• OWASP ZAP Proxy - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project

• grunt-zap - https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-zaproxy

• chetan github - https://github.com/ckarande

• CVSS (Common vulnerability  Scoring System) - http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&version=2

• ReDos RegEx Test Tools -

• RXRR - http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~hxt/research/rxxr-download.shtml)

• SDL RegEX Fuzzer -  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20095