DevOps security firm JFrog released three open source security tools in response to recent issues with software registry npm to help JavaScript developers detect and prevent the installation of ...
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When a developer 'unpublished' his work from the NPM JavaScript package registry, it broke dependencies for many other projects -- and highlighted the fragility of the open source ecosystem Developers ...
An update to a tiny JavaScript library has thrown a large part of the JavaScript ecosystem into chaos on Saturday, with millions of projects believed to have been impacted. Making the entire situation ...
On August 1, npm Inc. — the company that runs the biggest JavaScript package repository — removed 38 JavaScript npm packages that were caught stealing environment variables from infected projects.
The Node Package Manager (npm) team avoided a disaster today when it discovered and blocked the distribution of a cleverly hidden backdoor mechanism inside a popular —albeit deprecated— JavaScript ...
The Node Package Manager, NPM, has become a powerful and important tool, supporting many different JavaScript frameworks — including JQuery, AngularJS, and React JS. If you’re building JavaScript ...
Security researchers at Sonatype have discovered today an npm package (JavaScript library) that contains malicious code designed to steal sensitive files from a user's browsers and Discord application ...
Most JavaScript developers are familiar with the npm package manager, which was originally developed by Isaac Schlueter. What many probably don’t know is that npm is also a company co-founded by ...