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Your JavaScript Dependencies Could Be Your Biggest Security Risk

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6 min read2 days ago

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Imagine waking up to an urgent alert from your team: your web app is sending customer session tokens to an unknown server. You check your latest code commits, but you did not change anything related to login or cookies.

So, what happened?

The problem was not in the code you wrote. It was inside a small open-source package you installed three days ago to format dates.

Modern JavaScript development relies heavily on external libraries. When you run npm install , you bring thousands of lines of code written by strangers into your application.…