GitHub's npm package manager will ship its most significant security redesign in years this July, when npm v12 makes three long-automatic install behaviors require ...

GitHub will change npm's defaults so the install command no longer runs scripts automatically, disabling a feature commonly exploited by malicious packages such as the notorious Shai-Hulud worm.

The year was 2008, and actor Heath Ledger was at the peak of his career, having just starred in the Dark Knight as the villainous Joker, a character that would become iconic, but it was a role that ...