GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ...

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OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--npm, Inc., the JavaScript developer tools provider and operator of the world’s largest software registry, today announced a significant upgrade to npm Enterprise, its ...

Microsoft is acquiring Node package manager npm Inc., officials announced on March 16. (Neither company is sharing the purchase price.) Microsoft plans to integrate GitHub with npm with the intent of ...

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 ...

The npm security team has removed today a malicious JavaScript library from the npm website that contained malicious code for opening backdoors on programmers' computers. The JavaScript library was ...

The NPM JavaScript registry has experienced a jump in malware, including packages related to data theft, crypto mining, botnets, and remote code execution, according to security company WhiteSource.

Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a cross-platform RAT. Axios sits in 80% of cloud environments. Huntress confirmed ...

Fake packages aim to steal data, credentials, and secrets, and to infect every package created using them, in what could be ...