The largest software registry of Node.js packages, npm, has disclosed multiple security flaws that were identified and remedied recently. The first flaw concerns leak of names of private npm packages ...

The tendency of code-generating large language models (LLMs) to produce completely fictitious package names in response to certain prompts is significantly more widespread than commonly recognized, a ...

In 2024, cybersecurity experts started to warn of a new threat to the software supply chain. Named 'slopsquatting', it is a type of cyber attack where bad actors create fake packages containing ...

AI-generated computer code is rife with references to nonexistent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs with malicious packages ...

Changing your perspective even a small amount can have profound effects on how you approach your system. Let’s say you’re writing a web application in Java. In the system you deal with orders, ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

Researchers uncovered 27 malicious npm packages used over five months to host phishing pages that steal credentials from ...

In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also ...

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance, Contents of a Complete Submission for the Evaluation of Proprietary Names, on Nov. 24, 2008. Rockville, MD (Nov. 26)-The US Food and Drug ...