"Many in the developer community may not be aware that prototype pollution vulnerabilities can have severe consequences." In Javascript, an object is a collection of related data or functionality; for ...

The report looked at how vulnerabilities impacted the JavaScript (npm), Ruby (RubyGems ... "One of our favorite examples is an 80 line Java application that specifies 7 dependencies.

A glaring spotlight is now focused on vulnerabilities inherent ... "A key problem with JavaScript is that it was designed so that its scripts can do anything the user can do," Wagner explains. For ...

This article looks at vulnerabilities in JavaScript and possible best practices ... side and save server-time and bandwidth. A real world example is hard-coding the username and password into ...

To assess the state of each library, researchers also built their own database of vulnerabilities for the selected JavaScript projects ... stage analysis. For example, the median time difference ...

In addition to opening holes in Web applications, Hoffman illustrated how JavaScript and AJAX-based tools can be used by hackers to find new vulnerabilities online, and build XSS (cross-site ...

The Snyk data will be offered through Lighthouse’s “Best Practices” audit that detects front-end JavaScript libraries in use with a known security vulnerability by testing against Snyk’s ...

Adobe Systems Inc. patched its free Reader and commercial Acrobat software late yesterday to plug the latest in what one researcher called an “epidemic” of JavaScript vulnerabilities in the ...

The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites using The Onion ...

Adobe Systems patched its free Reader and commercial Acrobat software late Monday to plug the latest in what one researcher called an “epidemic” of JavaScript vulnerabilities in the popular ...