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GUEST OPINION: In today's fast-paced business environment, companies must ensure that they have a robust web app. NodeJS, with its powerful features and capabilities, is an excellent choice for building high-performance web apps.

British security researcher Kevin Beaumont has played down the hype over a recent announcement about a critical flaw in the open-source cryptographic library OpenSSL from Red Hat Linux. The advisory is due on 1 November.

Software Intelligence company Dynatrace's Application Security Module is being updated to detect and protect against vulnerabilities in runtime environments, including the Java Virtual Machine, Node.js runtime, and .NET CLR, as well as supporting Go applications.

The maintainer of the node-ipc package, a node.js module for local and remote inter-process communication, added code to some of its nested dependencies, resulting in files on computers with Russian or Belarussian IPs being wiped, a security firm claims.

The NPM repository account linked to a popular node.js runtime was hijacked for a while on Friday and used to spread a malicious script, the security firm Sophos claims.

Secure coding company Secure Code Warrior's latest feature is Missions – interactive coding simulations of real-world applications that demonstrate the impact of poor code practices.