Billions (No, that’s not a typo, Billions with a capital B) of files were potentially compromised. If you thought Node Package Manager (npm), the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js‘s default package manager, had finally stopped having serious security problems, you thought wrong. This time, a two-factor authentication (2FA) phishing attack left developers frustrated, angry, and in..

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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