Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

A critical vm2 Node.js vulnerability (CVE-2026-22709, CVSS 9.8) allows sandbox escape via Promise handler bypass.

A critical-severity vulnerability in the vm2 Node.js sandbox library, tracked as CVE-2026-22709, allows escaping the sandbox and executing arbitrary code on the underlying host system.

A flaw in the binary-parser npm package before version 2.3.0 lets attackers execute arbitrary JavaScript via unsanitized ...

In the history of computing, 1995 was a crazy time. First Java appeared, then close on its heels came JavaScript. The names made them seem like conjoined twins newly detached, but they couldn’t be ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for ...

Hackers pocketed as much as $155,000 by sneaking a backdoor into a code library used by developers of smart contract apps that work with the cryptocurrency known as Solana. The supply-chain attack ...

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 ...

Software development, long regarded as one of the most labour-intensive corners of the technology sector, is now transforming ...

Model-View-ViewModel, data binding and separation of concerns are just some of the reasons that Knockout.js, which I introduced in a recent column ("2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries," ...