Qix is an open source maintainer account that was compromised by a phishing attack. This allowed attackers to infect 18 popular npm packages with malicious code. Together, these packages are ...

Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Jake Armstrong, the product manager on the Excel team, announced that Microsoft 365 Insiders will be able to use three new functions: REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, and REGEXREPLACE, which employ Regular ...

Developers use statements to control the overall program flow, including variable declarations, conditional operations, and iterative processes. Here's how to write JavaScript statements. JavaScript ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Google Analytics introduces regex support for event creation, offering greater flexibility, precision, and improved insights for marketers. Google Analytics now supports regex for event creation and ...

Users often create weak and easily guessed passwords they reuse across systems and websites. As a result, traditional passwords are often the weakest link in the security of business-critical ...