Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it. As one user reported ...

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 ...

A weakness in Node Package Manager (npm) could allow anybody to hide malicious dependencies and scripts within their packages, a former GitHub employee claims. Npm is owned by GitHub and is used for ...

A logic flaw between Ubuntu's 'command-not-found' package suggestion system and the snap package repository could enable attackers to promote malicious Linux packages to unsuspecting users. Malicious ...

Yesterday Node.js creator Ryan Dahl announced that Node Package Manager (NPM) creator and fellow Joyent employee Isaac Schlueter is taking over Dahl’s role as the “gatekeeper” of Node.js. Today I ...

JavaScript is eating the world, with new tools and enhancements arriving at a breakneck pace. With Node.js, an open source runtime system invented in 2009 by Ryan Dahl, that reach has extended to the ...

Node.js is a popular and versatile cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment. Node was the first runtime to allow developers to run JavaScript outside the browser, opening a new world of ...