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.

The reason for this rise can be found in the latest survey of 33,000 developers from 156 countries who use npm, a hugely popular Node.js JavaScript package manager that's traditionally used to ...

Two malicious packages have been discovered in the npm JavaScript package index, which masquerades as useful utilities but, in reality, are destructive data wipers that delete entire application ...

Microsoft owned GitHub has announced it is buying popular JavaScript repository npm for an undisclosed amount. The npm repository hosts over 1.3 million JavaScript libraries, containing over 75 ...

NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger has resigned from his position. NPM is known for its free JavaScript tools that are popular with developers.

When a developer 'unpublished' his work from the NPM JavaScript package registry, it broke dependencies for many other projects -- and highlighted the fragility of the open source ecosystem ...

The Enclave NPM module currently under development will offer smoother project setup in Facebook’s React JavaScript UI library. Enclave provides an NPM for compiling JSX and ECMAScript 2015 code ...

Relatively easy to learn and highly scalable, Node.js has become a very popular platform for developing apps. Now npm, a package manager that installs, publishes, and manages node programs, has ...