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🦄 Node.js Secure Coding: http://nodejs-security.com

🌟 @GitHub Star
🏅 @OpenJS Pathfinder award for Security
🥑 DevRel at @snyksec
if you're working with URLs from users (as input) you should be concerned about SSRF

Server-side Request Forgery might take more than just a library even but url-sheriff should give you an idea and some added protection
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
look ma, I'm on seclists!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
hey look I'm on the Apache mailing list, can you tell why? ;-)
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
agent aliasing is new rick rolling

john you're killing me 😆
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's never been a better time to be a developer
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
academic research recommends Snyk too arxiv.org/html/2508.21...

you can just secure your dependencies ✨
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
newly published research on LLM vulnerabilities stemming from open-source third-party dependencies relied on Snyk to scan

very very nice ;-)
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
newly published research on LLM vulnerabilities stemming from open-source third-party dependencies relied on Snyk to scan

very very nice ;-)
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
this feels like I'm on Windows or something... going on for like 20 minutes what the heck
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
real nerds see the world in 0x
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
wait do I want to get this update ???
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I published an article about what is Glassworm, the prior Trojan Source incident and there's a walkthrough and usage guide for using anti-trojan-source npm CLI to detect and integrate it into a GitHub Actions CI or otherwise.

Let me know if you run into any issues:
Defending Against Glassworm: The Invisible Malware That's Rewriting Supply Chain Security | Snyk
Defend against Glassworm, the invisible malware rewriting supply chain security. Learn how anti-trojan-source detects and prevents these Unicode attacks, protecting your VS Code extensions and credentials.
snyk.io
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
will I be showing up with a green yoda hat at AI Native DevCon event to speak about the droids, scratch, MCP tools that will compromise the security of your agentic coding tools? probably!

see you in New York, nerds!
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Music to Break Models By
Gödelian limits of prompt-safe AI
matthodges.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Can I kindly ask for your support?

We launched Snyk Studio for securing AI coding agents on Product Hunt: www.producthunt.com/products/sny...

Can you take a quick look and if it's interesting give us an upvote and share your thoughts in a comment pretty please?
Snyk Studio - Real-time security guardrails for your AI code assistant | Product Hunt
Stop insecure AI code before it lands. Snyk Studio plugs into your AI code assistants (and VS Code, Cursor, and others) to scan code suggestions in real time, flag risky patterns, and guide safer fixe...
www.producthunt.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Matt Hodges with a wonderful write-up that explains why prompt injections are inherently a difficult problem to solve matthodges.com/posts/2025-0...
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
when was the last time you scanned your code-base for invisible characters aka trojan source attacks?

$ npx anti-trojan-source

and hope you don't have any glassworm or other bidi chars malware hiding 😅
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
new version of the anti-trojan-source npm CLI now supports extended categories, glassworm and no-break chars

this extends the existing invisible characters known as "trojan source" in the original cyberattack with more detection points from recent incident

$ npx anti-trojan-source

add it to your
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
the new Product and DevRel KPI is TTW - Time to Wow (or Time to What-the-f**k)

it is highly correlated with hyper pace of AI assistants, high shipping velocity and master-builder profile for developer relations practitions
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
ehh conflict resolution UI inside GitHub is pretty nice (although these days I'd expect an agent to autonomously do it 😆 )
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🚨 The new Glassworm malware? it invisible Unicode characters to hide in source code. 35,800+ victims.

Protect your codebase:

```bash
npx anti-trojan-source --files='**/*.js'
```

Here's a full guide: snyk.io/articles/def...
Defending Against Glassworm: The Invisible Malware That's Rewriting Supply Chain Security | Snyk
Defend against Glassworm, the invisible malware rewriting supply chain security. Learn how anti-trojan-source detects and prevents these Unicode attacks, protecting your VS Code extensions and credent...
snyk.io
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
they said AI is going to fix everything what the heck
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cursor 2.0 leaves behind the classical IDE and takes a step into the future of ADE: Agentic Development Environment

Both types of applications for software engineering will be applicable but an ADE is a futuristic eye opener into autonomous software self-development
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Y'all are eligible for a 25% discount to AI Native DevCon with my code LIRANT25 because I'm speaking there hah ;-)

Register and I'll see you there:
AI Native DevCon | Nov 18-19 | NYC | Limited Tickets
AI Native DevCon is hitting NYC (and online) Nov 18-19, 2025, focusing on spec-driven, AI-native development and coding agents.
ainativedev.io
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM