Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a ...

A popular coding tool was hijacked to deliver malware.

A hacker took over an account belonging to the lead maintainer of the JavaScript library, Axios, which is used to handle HTTP requests, as reported by Cybernews. Security researchers found that ...

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

The leak provides competitors—from established giants to nimble rivals like Cursor—a literal blueprint for how to build a ...
InfoWorld

Abandoned project linking Java, JavaScript makes a comeback

Once envisioned as a bridge between Java and JavaScript, the Detroit project never got off the ground. Now, there are efforts at reviving it, adding a Python engine to the mix. Intended to enable ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Updates JavaScript SEO Docs With Canonical Advice

Canonicalization happens both before and after rendering. Conflicting canonical signals between raw HTML and JavaScript output can cause unexpected indexing results. Google recommends setting the ...
TechSpot

JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

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 ...
Ars Technica

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

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 ...
CSOonline

Suspicious traffic could be testing CDN evasion, says expert

An individual or group is doing new probing of content delivery networks (CDNs), an effort that CSOs, CIOs and network administrators should worry about if they use CDNs instead of web application ...
Computer Weekly

Orange, Synamedia join forces to expand multi-CDN reach

There are few marketplaces with a thinner tolerance of service failure than in streaming video, where quality of service is paramount, and to give video platforms a smarter way to route traffic across ...
CoinTelegraph

Crypto users urged to take extreme care as NPM attack hits core JavaScript libraries

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 ...
Bitcoin Magazine

NPM Attack: Javascript Library Compromise Goes After Bitcoin Wallets

NPM developer qix's account compromise potentially puts user funds at risk by compromising library dependencies used by bitcoin wallets. A major NPM developer, qix, has had their account compromised.