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Popular JavaScript libraries eslint-config-prettier and eslint-plugin-prettier were hijacked this week and turned into ...
Tuckner’s discovery is reminiscent of a 2019 analysis that found browser extensions installed on 4 million browsers collected ...
A new investigation has revealed 245 browser extensions, installed on almost a million devices, have been leading a double ...
There are a lot more helpful JavaScript libraries for dealing with data, some of which we’ve already covered. Don’t miss Computerworld‘s earlier write-ups of Google Chart Tools, ...
Something similar happened in March 2016, when the author of the left-pad JavaScript library (another project amounting to 17 lines of code) decided to unpublish the library without warning ...
With the advent of big-data, good old spreadsheets just don’t cut it anymore. If you're looking for better ways to visualize data, here are the best JavaScript Charting Library for your needs.
A recently revised JavaScript library now makes it possible to run untrusted JavaScript code, in either Node.js or a modern browser, via a sandboxed environment that provides a controlled way to ...
The JavaScript library was named the "twilio-npm" according to web.archive and it has shown malicious behavior that was recently detected by Sonatype, a company that monitors the public package ...
The JavaScript library that will make other developers bow down, awed by our ability to pick the proven winner. Hey, I do it too. Maybe, just maybe, in this space it's not crucial to pick the winner.
A JavaScript library that scores over two million downloads every week has been injected with malicious code for stealing coins from a cryptocurrency wallet. The affected package is Event-Stream ...
JavaScript's standard library could eventually grow to reduce reliance on third-party packages -- but it'll happen slowly, says Eich A recent incident where software was removed from the NPM ...
An analysis of over 133,000 websites has found that 37 percent of them have at least one JavaScript library with a known vulnerability. Researchers from Northeastern University have followed up on ...