Russia's invasion of Ukraine has spilt over into developer-space, with a well-known npm maintainer adding "protestware" as a dependency to a very popular package. Security vendor Snyk is tracking what ...
In the latest software supply-chain attack, the code maintainer added malicious code to the hugely popular node-ipc library to replace files with a heart emoji and a peacenotwar module. The developer ...
A flaw in the binary-parser npm package before version 2.3.0 lets attackers execute arbitrary JavaScript via unsanitized ...
New developments in the popular Node.js ecosystem include curated Certified Modules from NodeSource and a free version of the Orgs collaboration tool from npm Inc. Node.js is an open source, ...
The node-ipc developer attempt to protest Russia's attack on Ukraine has the unintended consequence of casting more doubt in software supply chain integrity. The developer of a popular JavaScript ...
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 ...
A routine scan of the NPM open source code repository in April turned up several packages using a JavaScript obfuscator to hide their true function. After further investigation, analysts with ...
I've been slowly teaching myself nodejs and have gotten to the point where I've noticed some problems with the default REPL. Thing is, searching 'repl' on npmjs.com, returns 883 results. Googling for ...