Ars Technica

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...
Ars Technica

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...
Bleeping Computer

AppsFlyer Web SDK hijacked to spread crypto-stealing JavaScript code

The AppsFlyer Web SDK was temporarily hijacked this week with malicious code used to steal cryptocurrency in a supply-chain attack. The payload can intercept cryptocurrency wallet addresses entered on ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Ask An SEO: Can AI Systems & LLMs Render JavaScript To Read ‘Hidden’ Content?

For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...