Recognizing the growing popularity of Node.js for building distributed Web applications, cloud provider Joyent will soon offer a commercial support package for managing the platform, wherever it is ...

Relatively easy to learn and highly scalable, Node.js has become a very popular platform for developing apps. Now npm, a package manager that installs, publishes and manages node programs, has raised ...

GitHub has resolved numerous vulnerabilities in Node.js packages tar and @npmcli/arborist, with the worst allowing file overwrites and arbitrary code execution. On Wednesday, GitHub said the company ...

In modern web applications based on open-sourced libraries, often times developers are not aware of just how much dependency there is on risky third-party software packages. Guy Podjarny (pictured), ...

Security researchers from ReversingLabs discovered that 25 software packages available through the node package manager (NPM) have been stealing end-user data. NPM is the world’s largest open-source ...

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 ...

Bad actors using typo-squatting place 39 malicious packages in npm that went undetected for two weeks. How should the open source community respond? Software development relies heavily on trust, ...