Bleeping Computer

Invisible characters could be hiding backdoors in your JavaScript code

Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...
InfoWorld

13 new critical holes in JavaScript sandbox allow execution of arbitrary code

Thirteen critical vulnerabilities have been found in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox package that could allow an attacker’s code ...
InfoWorld

Prisma.js: Code-first ORM in JavaScript

Get a hands-on tour of the leading JavaScript object-relational mapping tool, which you can use with MongoDB and traditional databases. Prisma is a popular data-mapping layer (ORM) for server-side ...
Visual Studio Magazine

JavaScript Debugging Now Built-In to VS Code

Microsoft has created a built-in JavaScript debugger for Visual Studio Code, the wildly popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a ...
CNET

Code Combat teaches you to code through dungeon-crawling

Browser game CodeCombat teaches you how to code in Javascript by having you input the commands to play a game. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Tests Copilot-Powered Tool to Modernize JavaScript/TypeScript in VS Code

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-assisted tool for Visual Studio Code Insiders called the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer. It's designed to help developers modernize older JavaScript or TypeScript ...
ZDNet

Hackers are disguising their malicious JavaScript code with a hard-to-beat trick

Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called 'packers', a software packaging method that has given attackers a way of evading signature-based detection, according to security and ...