• Posts Tagged ‘mozilla’

    A New Chapter

    by  • 30 April 2013 • Articles • 7 Comments

    Nearly four years ago, I moved West to join Mozilla. About a year later, I moved East to come home to New York. I consider those two of the best changes I’ve ever made. Now Spring is here again and it’s time for another change. Last week, I announced to the company that I...

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    Mozilla’s Security Best Practices

    by  • 4 September 2012 • Articles

    This list of resources is meant as a companion to the talk I gave at DjangoCon 2012, but it should stand on its own as a useful list for Django developers. Best Practices? What are “best practices,” anyway? The internet loves to debate these things. For us, think of it as the collective team...

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    Mass Assignment – Security Part 10

    by  • 9 August 2012 • Security

    NB: This is the tenth post in a series of posts on web application security. “Mass assignment”? That’s a Rails thing! GitHub was the recent, high-profile target of an “attack”—it wasn’t so much a vicious attack as a “hey you guys, this is serious” attack, really gray-hat at its darkest—that made use of a...

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    Stay Up to Date – Basic Security Part 9

    by  • 27 July 2012 • Security

    NB: This is the ninth post in a series of posts on web application security. Rounding out this week is the last, but perhaps most important part of the basic security series: staying up to date. Keeping everything up-to-date is a pain. You have to follow the latest versions of everything you use. And...

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