フリーソフトウェア財団が2021年9月30日に、トラッキングやデータ収集などJavaScriptを悪用したマルウェアによるリスクを軽減するブラウザ拡張機能「JShelter」を発表しました。 JavaScriptを使えば、ブラウザがウェブサイトを読み込む際に自動的に実行される ...

Ease of use and documentation are focuses of open source and Microsoft efforts; Sun looks to improve non-Java tool JavaScript and .Net developers are getting helping hands in application-building ...

Due to the sheer size of many highly trafficked software repositories — Node.js’s NPM, for instance — the average developer is often left to parse metrics like GitHub stars to determine the quality of ...

Software supply chain quickly became a hot topic in the last few years, especially as the number of high-profile attacks increased and the White House got involved. Sigstore, an open source project ...

"Jia Tan" has put pressure on the xz-Maintainer to smuggle in a backdoor. There are indications that similar attempts were made with other projects. The sophisticated attack on the xz tools, which was ...