Research in Motion (RIM) is urging BlackBerry users to disable JavaScript in the smartphone's browser to block exploits from a security vulnerability showcased at this year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own ...

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 ...

An issue with the browser rendering engine, WebKit, provided in BlackBerry Device Software version 6.0 and later, means hackers could gain access to user data stored on BlackBerry smartphone media ...

AppJet debuted a JavaScript tutorial and in-browser editor Thursday to help teach the basics of JavaScript to inquiring minds. The step-by-step tutorial teaches you very general programming basics ...

Google has set up a research grant program to help and sponsor security researchers and academics find vulnerabilities in browser JavaScript engines. The program has one rule, namely that the bugs ...

JavaScript has established itself as a programming language of choice for web applications, thanks in part to a sharp rise in popularity with the launch of native frameworks for building scalable ...

JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, the standard way of building applications that run inside the browser. Created in the mid-'90s by an engineer at Netscape—the company that first pushed the ...