Foojay Podcast #58: How Java Developers Can Secure Their Code

Three years after Log4Shell caused a significant security issue, we still struggle with insecure dependencies and injection problems.

In this podcast, we’ll discuss how developers can secure their code.

I talked with three authors who posted a security and code quality post on Foojay.io.

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Guests

Jonathan Vila

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanvila/
• https://about.me/jonathan.vila
• https://twitter.com/jonathan_vila

Brian Vermeer

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/
• https://brianvermeer.nl/
• https://twitter.com/BrianVerm

Erik Costlow

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/costlow/
• https://twitter.com/costlow

Content

00:00 Introduction of topic and guests

01:35 Brian: Why is Log4Shell still around?
https://foojay.io/today/the-persistent-threat-why-major-vulnerabilities-like-log4shell-and-spring4shell-remain-significant/

03:24 Outdated dependencies are still used a lot

04:31 Who is responsible for dependency updates?

07:55 Snyk tools to help discover issues

10:15 Comparing to Dependabot

11:21 How to keep dependencies up-to-date

14:32 Responsibility to use dependencies with care

17:17 Looking forward to the JFall conference

18:48 About Foojay

19:49 Jonathan: Is SQL injection still a problem?
https://foojay.io/today/top-security-flaws-hiding-in-your-code-right-now-and-how-to-fix-them/

24:50 Deserialization injection

27:30 Logging injection

31:22 Even experienced developers make mistakes

33:17 About Sonar tools

35:53 Other articles by Jonathan
https://foojay.io/today/author/jonathan-vila/
https://foojay.io/today/ensuring-the-right-usage-of-java-21-new-features/

38:20 Other security tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVCYj8oQUY

39:47 Erik: Trash Pandas are attracted by unused code
https://foojay.io/today/trash-pandas-love-enterprise-java-garbage-code/

43:01 How bad are insecure but unused libraries?

45:16 Problem of code only used by unit tests

47:15 Testing in different layers (develop, test, production)

49:31 How much code is not used in production?

50:31 How code becomes unused
https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-57/

54:29 Conclusions