Tag: dependency security

Supply-chain attacks against JavaScript packages are climbing. Learn why the JS ecosystem is attractive to attackers, review notable incidents, and get an actionable, developer-focused playbook to protect your dependencies, verify code integrity, and harden your CI/CD pipeline.

Popular JavaScript libraries and frameworks speed development - but they also carry subtle, damaging security risks: supply‑chain attacks, prototype pollution, XSS from HTML/Markdown parsers, and dangerous framework APIs. This article explains concrete examples (event-stream, jQuery/lodash prototype pollution, Markdown/XSS issues), how these attacks work, and a practical, prioritized playbook to protect your apps.