Popular code repository GitHub is taking action against hackers targeting popular JavaScript code packages to spread malware.

Hundreds of compromised packages pulled as registry shifts to 2FA and trusted publishing GitHub, which owns the npm registry ...

In response to the recent supply chain attack in the JavaScript package manager npm, GitHub has made a few changes that will ...

The novel malware strain is being dubbed Shai-Hulud — after the name for the giant sandworms in Frank Herbert’s Dune novel ...

GitHub has unveiled a comprehensive plan to improve npm (Node Package Manager) security. The measures are a direct response to the major npm attack in mid-September, in which self-replicating malware ...

A massive phishing campaign targeted GitHub users with cryptocurrency drainers, delivered via fake invitations to the Y ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science, ...

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 ...

The Microsoft-owned Github this week announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages. Nat Friedman, Github’s chief executive officer, who made the ...

Open source development tool GitHub released its annual ranking of programming languages. JavaScript claimed the top spot, a position its held since 2014. Most languages remained stagnant, with ...