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Malicious NPM packages are part of a malware “barrage” hitting repositories

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have found another 17 malicious packages in an open source repository, as the use of such repositories to spread malware continues to flourish. This time, the malicious code was found in NPM, where 11 million developers trade more than 1 million packages among each other. Many of the 17 malicious...

Tor is under threat from Russian censorship and Sybil attacks
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Tor is under threat from Russian censorship and Sybil attacks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Tor anonymity service and anticensorship tool has come under fire from two threats in recent weeks: The Russian government has blocked most Tor nodes in that country, and hundreds of malicious servers have been relaying traffic. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, known as...