Academics have come up with a new technique that leaks data about users' browsers; enough to defeat anti-fingerprinting systems and privacy-preserving browser extensions to provide ways to identify ...

The programming language for Web sites and Web apps is less complex and therefore easier to develop, Chrome programmers argue at Google I/O. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Most Web sites use JavaScript, a powerful scripting language that helps make sites interactive. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of Web-based attacks use JavaScript tricks to foist malicious software ...

Security researchers have found a way to use JavaScript to map a home or corporate network and attack connected servers or devices, such as printers or routers. The malicious JavaScript can be ...

Opera announced its answer to the JavaScript engine race Monday. The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser anywhere ...

JavaScript is a standard web programming language that delivers interactive web pages. JavaScript takes advantage of the enhanced functionality and dynamic interfaces that a website may have to offer.

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used for ...

TikTok's custom in-app browser on iOS reportedly injects JavaScript code into external websites that allows TikTok to monitor "all keyboard inputs and taps" while a user is interacting with a given ...

‘Beware in-app browsers’ is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user — given the potential for an app to leverage its hold on user attention to snoop on what you’re looking at ...