Feross Aboukhadijeh
Special guest
Entrepreneur, programmer, open source author, and mad scientist.
Feross Aboukhadijeh has been a guest on 3 episodes.
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Unpacking the NPM supply chain attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh
September 23rd, 2025 | 40 mins 9 secs
security
Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder of Socket, joins us to break down the recent wave of NPM supply chain attacks hitting the JavaScript ecosystem, including how attackers used phishing to target developers, snuck malware into popular packages like Prettier and "is", and even abused tools like Claude, Gemini, and TruffleHog.
We dig into how GitHub Actions vulnerabilities were exploited, what makes postinstall scripts risky, and and what you can do to protect yourself from future attacks. -
Open-source supply chain security with Feross Aboukhadijeh
March 22nd, 2022 | Season 2 | 44 mins 8 secs
open source, security, web development
Feross Aboukhadijeh is the creator of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and Wormhole. We talked to Feross about Wormhole back in June and he joins us now to talk about Socket.dev, a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks.
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How to use Wormhole for simple, private file sharing with Feross Aboukhadijeh
June 15th, 2021 | Season 1 | 29 mins
encryption, software engineering, tech, technology, web development
In this episode, Ben interviews Feross Aboukhadijeh about Wormhole. Wormhole is a file sending tool that lets you quickly share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn't stay online forever.