What the Script: Supply chain attacks are traditionally designed to inflict maximum damage on structured organizations or companies. However, when such an attack compromises a supply chain that an ...

The maintainer for several highly popular npm debug and chalk packages has revealed he was recently the victim of a phishing attack, which led to the compromise of all 18 packages. “Yep, I’ve been ...

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries such as chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software. Hackers have compromised widely ...

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note, this article deals with client-side JavaScript. For a client and server-side JavaScript ...

Over 100,000 sites have been impacted in a supply chain attack by the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and the script was modified to redirect users to malicious and ...

Visual Studio Code is a code editor that is completely free and open-source. It has been developed by Microsoft and is highly regarded by developers due to its lightweight, fast, and extensible design ...

JavaScript is a double-edged sword: It adds lots of useful features to your favorite websites, such as interactive maps, loading images in the background, refreshing content on a site without ...