A poisoned npm package infected 140+ projects with a hidden payload. This report highlights how to detect, hunt, and defend ...

Four Georgia men are headed to prison for the drive-by shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy and injured a 9-year-old who ...

Abstract: Regular expressions are notoriously difficult to get right, with developers often having to resort to trial-and-error approaches. Even so, little attention ...

The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors ...

A new browser for the npm registry has launched in alpha, following grassroots demand for an alternative to the official npmjs.com interface. The open source project was started by Daniel Roe, who ...

Microsoft has released the beta version for TypeScript 6.0, the last release with the current JavaScript codebase. From version 7.0 onwards, the compiler and the language service will be written in Go ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

Microsoft announced that it has replaced the default scripting engine JScript with the newer and more secure JScript9Legacy on Windows 11 version 24H2 and later. The decision is driven by security ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...