UPDATE: Electronegativity v1.4.0

Electronegativity v1.4.0 was released some time ago. My first post about this open source Electron Security tool was titled – Electronegativity: An Open Source Electron Security Auditor which contains several bug fixes and a new feature. What is Electronegativity? Electronegativity is an open...

Electronegativity - Tool To Identify Misconfigurations And Security Anti-Patterns In Electron Applications

Electronegativity is a tool to identify misconfigurations and security anti-patterns in Electron-based applications. It leverages AST and DOM parsing to look for security-relevant configurations, as described in the "Electron Security Checklist - A Guide for Developers and Auditors" whitepaper...

Kicking the Rims – A Guide for Securely Writing and Auditing Chrome Extensions

A Thin Layer of Chrome Extension Security Prior-Art Chrome extension security and methodologies for auditing Chrome extensions for vulnerabilities appears to be a topic with shockingly little prior art. Especially when compared to other platforms such as Electron, which have had extension researc...