The team behind npm, the biggest package manager for JavaScript libraries, has issued a security alert yesterday, advising all users to update to the latest version (6.13.4) to prevent "binary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A critical vulnerability in the popular expr-eval JavaScript library, with over 800,000 weekly downloads on NPM, can be ...

Recently, security researchers Socket found 10 packages on npm targeting software developers, specifically those who use the npm (Node Package Manager) ecosystem to install JavaScript and Node.js ...

The security team behind the "npm" repository for JavaScript libraries removed two npm packages this Monday for containing malicious code that installed a remote access trojan (RAT) on the computers ...

The Microsoft-owned Github this week announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages. Nat Friedman, Github’s chief executive officer, who made the ...

The coordinated campaign has so far published as many as 46,484 packages, according to SourceCodeRED security researcher Paul ...