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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 ...

Concerned users can set up their own backup system if they don’t trust the steps NPM Inc. has taken to prevent problems The NPM registry of JavaScript packages has become a critical cog in the ...

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 ...

A hacker has gained access to a developer's npm account and injected malicious code into a popular JavaScript library, code that was designed to steal the npm credentials of users who utilize the ...

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 ...

As NPM is the package manager of Node.js, it is highly recommended to download the latest version of Node.js when you see the above-mentioned error. To download the ...

The team behind npm, the biggest package manager for JavaScript libraries, has issued a security alert yesterday, advising all users to update to the latest version (6.13.4) to prevent "binary ...