Common Security Flaws on the Client Side

Welcome to Part 4 of this review of the Pluralsight course AngularJS Security Fundamentals by Troy Hunt.

Troy is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security. He’s has been building software for browsers since the very early days of the web and has become an industry thought leader in the security space.

Troy is well known for creating “Have I been pwned?” the free service that aggregating data breaches and helping people establish potential impacts from malicious web activity. He’s created 27 courses (and counting) with Pluralsight.

Also in this series:

Part 1 Introduction

Part 2 Understanding Client Framework Security Boundaries

Part 3 Working with Security Controls on the Server

Common Security Flaws on the Client Side Understanding DOM Versus HTML Source

Troy defines the Document Object Model; something which Angular is adept at manipulating.

We see how the DOM differs from actual HTML source by viewing each side by side.

Security Assumptions and the Risk of “View Source”

Coming soon…