MINT - Chris DeMars - Possessed by Packages: Is Your JavaScript Haunted?
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Agenda
- 5:30 - 6:30pm Networking
- 6:30 - 7:30pm Presentation
- 7:30 - 7:45pm Closing
Abstract
Is your app behaving strangely? Random network calls? Unexpected behavior? It might not be a bug, it might be possessed. In this spooky session, we’ll explore how malicious packages sneak into your codebase like ghosts through an open portal. You’ll learn how typo-squatting, dependency confusion, and supply chain attacks haunt the JavaScript ecosystem, and how to perform a proper exorcism. We’ll go beyond npm audit and explore tools and habits to stop the haunt before it begins. Leave this talk with a toolkit that wards off evil; digital and otherwise.
Bio
Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate with over 20 years of technical experience. He speaks all over the world on web accessibility, feature flags, A/B testing, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Progress Champion and former Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, and Auth0 Ambassador. When he is not working on making the web great and accessible you can find him fishing, on the paintball field, rating Detroit Style pizza, and looking for UFO's.
