ZDNet

Another one-line npm package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem

An update to a tiny JavaScript library has thrown a large part of the JavaScript ecosystem into chaos on Saturday, with millions of projects believed to have been impacted. Making the entire situation ...
Bleeping Computer

Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall

A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. Changing ownership of these ...
InfoWorld

NPM: Free public JavaScript registry will continue

Is the public NPM JavaScript package registry going away? NPM, the company behind the popular online repository of Node.js and JavaScript code, insists it will remain, despite a recent rumor to the ...
CSOonline

Npm ecosystem vulnerable to new manifest confusion attack

Package manifests in the npm registry are not validated against metadata files in the package itself, leaving the door open for attackers. The npm (Node Package Manager) ecosystem of JavaScript ...
Bleeping Computer

New Python tool checks NPM packages for manifest confusion issues

A security researcher and system administrator has developed a tool that can help users check for manifest mismatches in packages from the NPM JavaScript software registry. Last week, a former ...