{"id":10613,"date":"2026-10-29T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/github-launches-npm-firewall-to-block-malicious-packages-before-installation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:13:27","slug":"github-launches-npm-firewall-to-block-malicious-packages-before-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/github-launches-npm-firewall-to-block-malicious-packages-before-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Launches npm Firewall to Block Malicious Packages Before Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bGitHub has announced that it&#8217;s introducing a new package firewall as a preview to block installation of suspicious npm packages during installation time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The firewall inspects both metadata requests and package downloads for signs of malicious activity, acting as an install-time policy gate,&#8221; GitHub said.<\/p>\n<p>The feature, which currently supports only npm packages, is available in public preview\u00a0GitHub has announced that it&#8217;s introducing a new package firewall as a preview to block installation of suspicious npm packages during installation time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The firewall inspects both metadata requests and package downloads for signs of malicious activity, acting as an install-time policy gate,&#8221; GitHub said.<\/p>\n<p>The feature, which currently supports only npm packages, is available in public preview\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bGitHub has announced that it&#8217;s introducing a new package firewall as a preview to block installation of suspicious npm packages during installation time. &#8220;The firewall inspects both metadata requests and package downloads for signs of malicious activity, acting as an install-time policy gate,&#8221; GitHub said. The feature, which currently supports only npm packages, is available&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/github-launches-npm-firewall-to-block-malicious-packages-before-installation\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GitHub Launches npm Firewall to Block Malicious Packages Before Installation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}