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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Stopping Malicious Actors

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about ways to prevent malicious people from using or abusing your app. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:04 Sponsor: Linode 02:06 Sponsor: Sentry 02:59 What kind of bad things can happen to your application? 06:24 How do you stop bad actors? 12:20 Nonce tokens 14:10 CSRF CSRF Explained 14:50 Captcha hCaptcha 17:06 DDOS Cloudlfare DDOS 17:38 Ban known bad ASNS Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

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JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

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Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development

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treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!

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Tolinsky!

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Welcome to Syntax! On this Monday! Heeeyasty treat!

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We're going to be talking about malicious actors and how we can stop them. I'm not

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talking about film actors. I'm talking about people using your stuff. So people

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who are using your stuff and who are up to no good. We're going to be talking

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about how to stop them from doing their wrong doing. So my name is Scott

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Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado. And with me, as always, is Wes

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Boss. Yeah, excited. Just talk about the bad guys today.

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Talking about the bad guys. This episode is sponsored by two amazing companies

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which is a Linode and Century. Wes, would you love to talk about Linode? And I

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would love to talk about Century. We'd love to talk about Linode. Linode is a

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cloud computing and Linux servers are alternative to AWS. Linode is awesome.

1:16.0

They have products for literally everything. Probably what you listen or want to

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use is you can spin up a little Linux server real quick. They have lots of

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images already that you can like, oh, I want to use node. Well, they've got

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a node image. Just spin that sucker up and you can right away deploy

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your node application to it. They have shared CPU, high memory, block

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and object storage, backups, manage databases, MySQL. You name it

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