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 ...

TypeScript is a variation of the popular JavaScript programming language that adds features that are important for enterprise development. In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed—meaning ...

Front-end developers, i.e., those who write code that runs in your browser, have traditionally had fewer choices than their back-end peers, who write the code that runs on servers.

JavaScript is becoming increasingly pervasive all around the world of enterprise software development. Even the top JavaScript frameworks are rarely any developer's first choice when it comes to ...

For the study, the researchers ran 30 tests, 16 in the Python programming language and 14 in JavaScript, that generated 19,200 code samples per test, for a total of 576,000 code samples.

All of this means, assuming the above JavaScript code was placed on a web server, reachable at host:8080, an attacker could sneak in a GET parameter representing the invisible variable, in its URL ...

For example, Amazon's Web page has 600KB of JavaScript code, ESPN has 900KB, and CNN has 1.5MB. "Web developers are really pushing the limits of the platform," Lund said.