Ever since Microsoft acquired the open-source development platform GitHub, it has grown the service significantly with even more acquisitions. Last year, GitHub acquired Dependabot and Pull Panda, and ...

July 2026, blocking install scripts, Git dependencies, and remote URL sources by default. Every team running npm install in ...

Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it. As one user reported ...

With npm v12, GitHub closes a central attack vector: installation scripts from dependencies will only run after explicit approval from July 2026.

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 ...

Red Hat hit by npm supply‑chain attack - here's how to stay safe ...