After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars.

A security researcher has developed a technique that enables him to use javascript and timing attacks to steal browser data.

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 ...

Here's a look at JavaScript’s renaissance—from being just a web application enabler to evolving into a powerful AI platform.

Some websites are embedded with special JavaScript code that has a sneaky peek at the browser history and looks for evidence of that color change to record where you've been recently.

Of course, the developer also notes that not every app that injects JavaScript code into an in-app browser does so for malicious purposes, since JavaScript is the basis of many web features.

JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks Malicious code embedded in Web site can let miscreant map a home or corporate network, attack connected devices.

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

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 ...

Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript All Microsoft's browser rivals are scrambling to speed up JavaScript, trying to get ahead as the Web expands into a foundation for programs.