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 ...

A novel timing attack has emerged for targeting private corporate software packages hosted in the npm code repository. The goal is to uncover the legitimate offerings and then create malicious public ...

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 PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of malicious ...

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 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 ...